Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

An interpretation of Hobbes''s philosophy that focuses on political disobedience and demonstrates the existence of a Hobbesian theory of resistance.

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.

Examines Rousseau''s contribution as a constitutionalist and builder of institutions, relating his major ideas to twenty-first century debates.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of Russian intellectual thinkers, with fourteen essays by an international team of experts.

Uses the work of Zhang Shizhao, a famous Chinese thinker, to challenge democratic views about the origins of social change.

This book examines the entirety of Giambattista Vico''s oeuvre and demonstrates his significance as a theorist who adapted the discipline of rhetoric to modern conditions.

This book explains why ''fracture'' and ''fragmentation'' are two crucial concepts in Romanticism.

In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch''s works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

This book shows how Chinese intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions in the early twentieth century.

A major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy from 1830 to 1930.

This part of Proclus'' Commentary is especially significant for the study of the Platonic tradition from the earliest commentators onwards.

This second edition considers how the ''global war on terror'' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.

A broad-ranging 2010 study of Smith''s views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law.

This book examines responses to Pliny the Elder''s encyclopedic Natural History over the last two millennia.

This book contains three essays that examine three forms of anti-Zionism and their use of the Holocaust to delegitimize Israel.

This book offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900.

This book introduces the concept of semi-citizenship into debates about people who hold some but not all elements of citizenship.

A literary account of how the modern divide between the sciences and the humanities emerged in the eighteenth century.

Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare''s engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.

This text argues that both Victorian psychology and the novel made significant contributions to both contemporary and current trauma theory.

Uncovers the origins of the conflict over homosexuality which has drawn worldwide interest and divided the Anglican Church.

Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant''s Critique of Pure Reason.

This volume explores the life and works of Auguste Comte from 1852 to 1857 and the impact of his positivist philosophy and Religion of Humanity.

This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel''s journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816–18).

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This book shows how Marshall''s distinctive contributions to modern economics grew out of his early development of a neo-Hegelian social philosophy.

This book shows how emergency powers can be justifiable in liberal democracies without suspending liberal norms.

Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking.

This volume explores the life and works of Auguste Comte from 1842 to 1852, when he transformed his philosophy into a religious and political movement.

A new translation of Concluding Unscientific Postscript, with an introduction that sets the work in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Through an historical analysis of the theme of Oriental despotism, Curtis reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient.

This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith to recover his understanding of morality in a market age.

A trenchant analysis of the evolution and motivations of British historians'' fascination with the European continent.

Discusses some of the most significant ideological debates that have animated the Arab world over the last two decades.

This book examines the apology''s extraordinary political emergence and significance to ideas of collective responsibility, ritual, and contemporary politics.

The essays in this volume discuss the questions at the core of Kant''s pioneering work on the philosophy of history.

Drawing upon the work of Quine, Rawls, Rorty and others, Gutting challenges the standard view about what philosophers have achieved.

This book examines how economists and other social scientists can broaden their analytical repertoire to encompass the vital role of sentiments, language, and imagination.

Arguing that Tocqueville was fundamentally a social scientist rather than a political theorist, Elster emphasizes Tocqueville''s substantive and methodological insights.

In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past.

This book explores the contribution made by Chartist poetry to the struggle for fundamental democratic rights.

This book explores the ways in which the German Catholic Enlightenment reconceived the relationship between religion, society, and the state.

This fascinating collection considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society in the Roman Empire.

Sheehan argues that Madison''s vision for the new nation was informed by the idea of republican self-government.

A much-needed alternative to the standard male histories of political thought from the late medieval to early modern period.

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This book places Carnap''s central ideas in a broad cultural, political and intellectual context.

A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.

This book traces the theory of Quaker constitutionalism from the early Quakers through Founding Father John Dickinson to Martin Luther King, Jr.