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31 produkter
On the Spirit of Rights
Häftad, 2021
378 kr
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By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein …
Welfare for Markets
A Global History of Basic Income
Av Anton Jäger, Daniel Zamora Vargas
Inbunden, 2023
290 kr
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A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting.The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty—now known as basic income—is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income’s modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth …
Welfare for Markets
A Global History of Basic Income
Av Anton Jäger, Daniel Zamora Vargas
Häftad, 2024
328 kr
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A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting.The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty—now known as basic income—is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income’s modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth …
Jean-Paul Marat
Prophet of Terror
Inbunden, 2025
460 kr
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A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat. Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743–93) than preeminent historian of France Keith Michael Baker? Decades in the making, this monumental work …
On the Spirit of Rights
Inbunden, 2018
374 kr
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By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein …
Fascism
The History of a Word
Häftad, 2025
315 kr
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A wide-ranging history of the term “fascism,” what it has meant, and what it means today. The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the term “fascist” and when and whether it is appropriate to use …
Adventures in the Archaic
Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975
Häftad, 2026
271 kr
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Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 and 1975.We tend to associate primitivism with the nostalgic idealization of origins, often aimed at parts of the world that are viewed as closer to that idealized past …
Enlightenment Biopolitics
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens
Häftad, 2024
306 kr
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A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the …
Return of Resentment
The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion
Inbunden, 2023
255 kr
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Charts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment. The term “resentment,” often casually paired with words like “hatred,” “rage,” and “fear,” has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despite its increased use, this word seems to defy …
Terms of Exchange
Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences
Av Ian Merkel
Inbunden, 2022
1074 kr
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A collective intellectual biography that sheds new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracy.Would the most recognizable ideas in the French social sciences have developed without the influence of Brazilian intellectuals? While any study of Brazilian social sciences …
Terms of Exchange
Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences
Av Ian Merkel
Häftad, 2022
306 kr
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A collective intellectual biography that sheds new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracy.Would the most recognizable ideas in the French social sciences have developed without the influence of Brazilian intellectuals? While any study of Brazilian social sciences …
Legacy of the Enlightenment
Ambivalences of Modernity
Inbunden, 2026
401 kr
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Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enlightenment as having been, above all else, a self-critical enterprise. The Enlightenment has come under substantial attack over the past several years, with some going so far as to recommend leaving behind …
When Spinoza Met Marx
Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity
Inbunden, 2023
432 kr
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Explores concepts that bring together the thinking of Spinoza and Marx.Karl Marx was a fiery revolutionary theorist who heralded the imminent demise of capitalism, while Spinoza was a contemplative philosopher who preached rational understanding and voiced skepticism about open rebellion. Spinoza …
Politics of Utopia
A New History of John Law's System, 1695–1795
Av Arnaud Orain
Inbunden, 2024
403 kr
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A fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France. The Scottish economist John Law has been described as the architect of modern central banking. His “System,” established in Regency France between 1716 and 1720, saw the founding of a bank issuing …
Enlightenment Biopolitics
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens
Inbunden, 2024
1074 kr
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A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the …
Global Enlightenment
Western Progress and Chinese Science
Inbunden, 2023
455 kr
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A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire …
Enlightenment and Original Sin
Inbunden, 2024
988 kr
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An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that the Enlightenment is best …
Enlightenment and Original Sin
Häftad, 2024
255 kr
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An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that the Enlightenment is best …
Alpine Enlightenment
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium
Inbunden, 2024
988 kr
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A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. During …
Alpine Enlightenment
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium
Häftad, 2024
283 kr
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A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. During …
Magical Nominalism
The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph
Av Martin Jay
Inbunden, 2025
348 kr
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A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between “conventional” and “magical” nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography.In this magisterial new book, intellectual historian Martin Jay traces the long-standing competition between …
Demos Rising
Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850
Inbunden, 2025
1018 kr
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A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos Rising, he …
Demos Rising
Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850
Häftad, 2025
315 kr
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A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos Rising, he …
Return of Resentment
The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion
Häftad, 2025
219 kr
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Charts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment. The term “resentment,” often casually paired with words like “hatred,” “rage,” and “fear,” has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despite its increased use, this word seems to defy …
Fascism
The History of a Word
Inbunden, 2025
1018 kr
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A wide-ranging history of the term “fascism,” what it has meant, and what it means today. The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the term “fascist” and when and whether it is appropriate to use …
Vulgar Marxism
Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931
Inbunden, 2025
1018 kr
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Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the past hundred years, “vulgar Marxism” has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory …
Vulgar Marxism
Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the past hundred years, “vulgar Marxism” has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory …
Adventures in the Archaic
Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975
Inbunden, 2026
1018 kr
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Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 and 1975.We tend to associate primitivism with the nostalgic idealization of origins, often aimed at parts of the world that are viewed as closer to that idealized past …
Poverty of the Imagination
The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Av Patrick Iber
Inbunden, 2026
1018 kr
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Explores the history of the “science of development” during the Cold War and how experts across the social sciences tried to create the tools to address the problem of poverty across Latin America.In the mid-twentieth century, Latin America had the world’s starkest internal inequality. In Brazil in …
Poverty of the Imagination
The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Av Patrick Iber
Häftad, 2026
271 kr
Kommande
Explores the history of the “science of development” during the Cold War and how experts across the social sciences tried to create the tools to address the problem of poverty across Latin America.In the mid-twentieth century, Latin America had the world’s starkest internal inequality. In Brazil in …
