Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place.

Die Endlichkeit menschlicher Existenz ist anthropologisch konstant, doch sind die Formen ihrer Wahrnehmung historisch und kulturell höchst variabel.

Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black from white and Native American.

Its like talking to a brick wall and Well have to agree to disagree are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument.

Interest in the Man in Black has grown since his death in 2003, with increased record sales, cover videos by groups like Nine Inch Nails, and the 2006 biopic Walk the Line cementing his fame.

An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced.

As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy.

John Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals.

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works.

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy.

Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period-Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.

The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world.

The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "e;Can a human being be free of human nature?

This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state.

This Palgrave Pivot presents a historical reflection about the development of sociology in Colombia from the late nineteenth century into the mid-twentieth century, a period in which the process of professionalization in the discipline occurred due to the creation of university training programs, as well as the extension of research centers and groups nationwide.

The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.

How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

One of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze has become hugely influential in philosophy, cultural studies, literature, art, and architecture.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as "e;Frankfurt School"e;.

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events.

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (19231987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin.

A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's bitterly divided politicsIndividualism is a defining feature of American public life.

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither.

From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will beIn this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history.

How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justiceThe relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes.

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia.

This book deals with the institutionalist movement in American economics, a significant part of American economics in the interwar period.

A broad overview of the nature and contemporary significance of the concept of sovereignty.

Facts often acquire a life of their own; the stories in this book explain why.

This book looks at conceptions of the individual in recent new approaches in economics.

This book provides a survey of the major developments in monetary theory and policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell.

HThis book describes how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s.

This volume provides essays on the Laws, Plato''s last dialogue and major work of political philosophy besides the Republic.

This book explores the debates surrounding Spinoza''s Theological-Political Treatise, covering topics such as political theory, metaphysics and religious toleration.

This volume in John Pocock''s acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion examines Gibbon''s controversial treatment of the early Christian church.

Enables students to assess critically the development of Locke''s theory of toleration and its importance for liberalism.

Argues for the importance of Darwin for the development of Nietzsche''s philosophy, but emphasizes the antagonistic character of their relationship.

This book explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century.

This book contains the most explicit formulation of Hegel''s enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought.

Religion and the Political Imagination offers new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.

Civil Religion traces a continuing intellectual dialogue on the challenge posed to political and civic life by religion.

In this book, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 to 1920.

Examines the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in seventeenth-century England.

A history of Gandhi''s previously underestimated influence on Western protest, and thereby modern Western history.

A wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes''s political and religious ideas.

An investigation of the theory of melancholy and its applications in the Renaissance.

This collection explores Hannah Arendt''s thought against the background of recent world-political events.

A translation of Hegel''s ''Greater Logic'' which includes the revised Book I (1832), Book II (1813) and Book III (1816).

This book cuts through the confusion and controversy about whether modern economics has succeeded or failed.