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Herder and Enlightenment Politics
Av Eva Piirimäe
Häftad, 2025
573 kr
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Johann Gottfried Herder initiated the modern disciplines of philosophical anthropology and cultural history, including the study of popular culture. He is also remembered as a sharp critic of colonialism and imperialism. But what types of social, economic and political arrangements did Herder …
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History
Häftad, 2011
684 kr
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This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding of modern political culture and his position in the history of modern political thought. Surveying Nietzsche's entire intellectual career from his years as a student in Bonn and Leipzig during the 1860s to his genealogical project of the 1880s, …
The Empire of Chance
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
Av Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
455 kr
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The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays …
Inventing the French Revolution `
Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 1990
569 kr
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How did the French Revolution become thinkable? Keith Michael Baker, a leading authority on the ideological origins of the French Revolution, explores this question in his wide-ranging collection of essays. Analyzing the new politics of contestation that transformed the traditional political …
Measurement in Psychology
A Critical History of a Methodological Concept
Av Joel Michell, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
410 kr
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This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this …
Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance
The Case of Law
Av Ian Maclean, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
748 kr
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This book investigates theories of interpretation and meaning in Renaissance jurisprudence. How do they relate to the institutions of the law, especially pedagogical institutions? What characterizes the most commonly adopted theories of the legal profession? In what form were they published? How do …
Renaissance Civic Humanism
Reappraisals and Reflections
Av James Hankins, James Hankins
Inbunden, 2000
1628 kr
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Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists and historians of ideas have been brought together to reassess the impact on the subject of the pioneering work of Hans Baron (1966) and J. G. A. …
Enlightenment and Religion
Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2006
653 kr
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This book makes a comprehensive reassessment of the relationship between Enlightenment and religion in England. The debate about an 'English' Enlightenment has centred on the role of religion, especially the relationship between the established Anglican Church and the dissenting confessions. It has …
Philosophy in History
Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy
Av Richard Rorty, Jerome B. Schneewind m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
569 kr
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The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual historians commonly accuse philosophers of writing bad - anachronistic - history of philosophy, and on the other, philosophers have accused …
Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000
Inbunden, 2014
1872 kr
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This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and …
Elizabethan Rhetoric
Theory and Practice
Av Peter Mack, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
557 kr
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Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizabethan prose texts, including political orations, histories, romances, conduct manuals, privy council debates and personal letters. Elizabethan Rhetoric reconstructs the knowledge, skills and approaches …
The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism
Av Robert Alun Jones, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
846 kr
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Drawing on the kind of historicist perspective encouraged by Quentin Skinner and Richard Rorty, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism. Durkheim argued that social facts should be studied as real, concrete things but Professor Jones argues that his social realism was less a …
Pluralism and the Personality of the State
Av David Runciman, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism. The pluralists believed that the state was simply one group among many, and could not therefore be …
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
Av Eric Nelson, Quentin Skinner
Häftad, 2006
493 kr
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The Greek Tradition in Republic Thought completely rewrites the standard history of republican political theory. It excavates an identifiably Greek strain of republican thought which attaches little importance to freedom as non-dependence and sees no intrinsic value in political participation. This …
Englishness and the Study of Politics
The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker
Av Julia Stapleton, Quentin Skinner
Häftad, 2006
557 kr
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The definition of 'Englishness' has become the subject of considerable debate, and in this important contribution to Ideas in Context, Julia Stapleton looks at the work of one of the most wide-ranging and influential theorists of the English nation, Ernest Barker. The first holder of the Chair of …
The Social and Political Thought of Bertrand Russell
The Development of an Aristocratic Liberalism
Av Philip Ironside, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
716 kr
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This pioneering study of Bertrand Russell's social and political thought deals with the years 1896 to 1938, and is the first book to embark on a thorough investigation of the intellectual and cultural context out of which Russell's ideas emerged. Maintaining a sympathetic but critical stance …
Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Queen and Commonwealth 1558-1585
Av A. N. McLaren, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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In this major contribution to the Ideas in Context series Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of Elizabeth I, imperial 'kingship' came to be invested in the person of a female ruler. She looks at how Elizabeth managed to be queen, in the …
The Duel in Early Modern England
Civility, Politeness and Honour
Av Markku Peltonen, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
667 kr
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Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, …
Rival Enlightenments
Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany
Av Ian Hunter, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
477 kr
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Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of confessional conflict and political desacralization. …
Early Modern Liberalism
Av Annabel Patterson, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Early Modern Liberalism rediscovers an important phase in the development of liberal thought. Despite the fact that 'liberalism' as a term was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until late in the eighteenth century, Annabel Patterson argues that its central ideas were …
Equal Freedom and Utility
Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism
Häftad, 2006
748 kr
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This rich and provocative study assesses Herbert Spencer's pivotal contribution to the emergence of liberal utilitarianism and shows that Spencer, as much as J. S. Mill, provided liberal utilitarianism with its formative contours. Like Mill, Spencer tried to reconcile a principle of liberty and …
Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment
Av T. J. Hochstrasser, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
911 kr
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This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenment in Germany and France. T. J. Hochstrasser investigates the influence exercised by theories of natural law from Grotius to Kant, with a comparative analysis of the …
The Transformation of Natural Philosophy
The Case of Philip Melanchthon
Av Sachiko Kusukawa, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and …
Rousseau and Geneva
From the First Discourse to The Social Contract, 1749-1762
Häftad, 2007
716 kr
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Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan socio-economic, political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr Rosenblatt effectively contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social …
The Case for The Enlightenment
Scotland and Naples 1680-1760
Häftad, 2007
553 kr
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The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, the distinguished intellectual historian John Robertson demonstrates …
Humanism and America
An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625
Häftad, 2007
780 kr
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Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonization, ranging from the works of Thomas More …
Self-Interest before Adam Smith
A Genealogy of Economic Science
Av Pierre Force
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory. It is generally assumed that the birth of modern economic science, marked by the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776, was the triumph of the 'selfish hypothesis' (the idea that self-interest is the motive of …
Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance
The Case of Learned Medicine
Av Ian Maclean
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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How or what were doctors in the Renaissance trained to think, and how did they interpret the evidence at their disposal for making diagnoses and prognoses? This 2001 book addresses these questions in the broad context of the world of learning: its institutions, its means of conveying and …
Pedagogy and Power
Rhetorics of Classical Learning
Av Yun Lee Too, Niall Livingstone
Häftad, 2007
834 kr
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Pedagogy and Power is a volume of interdisciplinary essays which explores the political dimensions of Graeco-Roman education and of its subsequent models. Seeking to make the various structures and discourses of intellectual authority more apparent, the essays argue that there is a social context …
Otto Neurath
Philosophy between Science and Politics
Av Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
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813 kr
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An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. Uebel, have produced this lucid and elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book, which depicts Neurath's science in the political, …
