History of architecture

The fascinating story of The History of the Rus'', one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era.

This book identifies Jefferson as an American nationalist and describes his assessment of American character and democratic promise.

This book showcases eight judges that exemplify judicial greatness and looks at what role they play in law and society.

A rigorous and comprehensive commentary, showing how the Religion develops key themes in Kant''s mature philosophy.

This book presents a provocative new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche''s most important and most difficult work, Beyond Good and Evil.

This book explores the tensions raised by ideas of sacrifice in literature at a time of significant legal and theological change.

Explores the far-reaching impact of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides on modern historiography, political theory and international relations.

Examines Quine''s views on meaning, reference and knowledge and addresses numerous problems in the interpretation of key texts.

This book explores the relationship between freedom and slavery in the antebellum American South, studying authors who spoke for the Southwest''s educated classes.

Carol Pal reconstructs a forgotten network of female scholars and rewrites the intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century republic of letters.

The first history of one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern era.

An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.

This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.

Offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and the development of modern economics.

A revised translation of Condorcet''s view of progress across history and his prophetic writings on women, slavery, freedom and revolution.

This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.

Stanley Fish''s finest published work is brought together here with brand new material.

An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.

What does it mean to be modern?

In this book, Kevin M.

Stanley argues that the French philosophes reveal the possibility of a democratically hospitable form of cynicism.

This study reassesses the influence and philosophy of Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest medieval Islamic theologians.

Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century.

An overview of the history of evangelicalism as a global movement, from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present.

A fully revised and updated second edition of this best-selling guidebook.

This book investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.

This compelling and timely book explores the relationship between classical Islamic theology and the contemporary radicalization of Islam.

This book investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.

A comprehensive and unusual introduction to Nietzsche, providing a separate introductory essay for each of his major works.

This book reconstructs and evaluates the philosophy of a thinker who was uniquely influential among Romans of the first century BC.

This collection of essays explores an unjustly neglected tradition that is now experiencing a remarkable renaissance: French political liberalism.

Offers a strikingly original interpretation of Leo Strauss, his ''political philosophy'', and the connection of both to the American conservative movement.

A succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War.

This book explores the ways that intellectual property impacts our economy and society.

The neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have approached ideas of the occult which challenged biblical religion.

An interdisciplinary study of the emergence of a psychology of the ''unconscious'' in the Romantic period, ninety years before Freud.

One of the world''s greatest historians shows how Indians appropriated liberalism to argue for rights, representation and a better society.

This book shows how psychoanalysis attained its prominent cultural position, not through surmounting its rivals, but through rescripting history.

This wide-ranging study offers a new interpretation of nationalism and the formation of European nations.

This book analyzes Thomas More''s thoughts on the statecraft needed to enhance liberty and peace in a culture favoring war.

Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century.

This book uses insights from classical thinkers to reveal how great orators persuade their audiences so convincingly.

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

This book casts light on ancient Greeks'' attitudes to novelty in order to change scholarly understanding of their history and culture.

This 1992 volume explores the the life and pivotal career of James Harrington.

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith.

An accessible and international look at what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist today.

Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

This inaugural lecture argues that the modern university should foster the interdisciplinary approach of medieval texts and study.

This book questions the theoretical assumptions of sovereignty and offers new ways to move the critiques of this subject forward.