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Nature Engaged
Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
Av M. Biagioli, J. Riskin
Inbunden, 2012
1128 kr
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This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronological span reaching from the Renaissance to Big Science, its topics range from sundials to genetic …
Philosophy of Life and Death
Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics
Häftad, 2015
1530 kr
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Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural …
European Antarctic
Science and Strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire
Av P. Roberts
Inbunden, 2011
1128 kr
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This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and …
Recovering Bishop Berkeley
Virtue and Society in the Anglo-Irish Context
Inbunden, 2010
551 kr
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Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in …
American Bourgeoisie
Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2011
1128 kr
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This volume engages a fundamental disciplinary question about this period in American history: how did the bourgeoisie consolidate their power and fashion themselves not simply as economic leaders but as cultural innovators and arbiters? It also explains how culture helped Americans form both a …
Carl Gustav Jung
Avant-Garde Conservative
Av J. Sherry
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer. Most accounts have unfortunately been marred by …
Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
Av T. Ahnert
Inbunden, 2011
1128 kr
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An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought
Transpositions of Empire
Av S. Dorsett, I. Hunter
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of …
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India
Language, Translation, and the Making of Protestant Identity
Av H. Israel
Inbunden, 2011
551 kr
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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes initiated by early missionary …
Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on the history of orientalism …
Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism
Inbunden, 2011
551 kr
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This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.
Isaiah Berlin
The Journey of a Jewish Liberal
Av A. Dubnov
Inbunden, 2012
989 kr
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This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing …
Making British Indian Fictions
1772-1823
Av A. Malhotra
Inbunden, 2012
634 kr
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This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined …
Emergence of Russian Liberalism
Alexander Kunitsyn in Context, 1783-1840
Av J. Berest
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian public.
Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era
Reforming American Verse and Values
Av L. Szefel
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by …
History and Psyche
Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past
Inbunden, 2012
1128 kr
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Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes contentious, encounters between …
Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India
Av I. Sengupta, D. Ali
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing …
Art and Life in Modernist Prague
Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938
Av T. Ort
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view …
Monism
Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview
Av T. Weir
Inbunden, 2012
551 kr
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The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and …
History and Psyche
Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past
Häftad, 2013
1240 kr
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Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative, and sometimes contentious, encounters between …
Scottish Enlightenment
Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress
Inbunden, 2013
1464 kr
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The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents …
William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic
Inbunden, 2014
551 kr
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Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. This book overturns such thinking, demonstrating the coherence of James's efforts to develop a flexible but rigorous framework for individuals and societies seeking freedom, meaning, and justice in a …
Cultural History of the British Census
Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century
Av K. Levitan
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.
Dream of a Democratic Culture
Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea
Av T. Lacy
Inbunden, 2013
1128 kr
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This book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intellectualism, advocating for the liberal arts, distributing cultural capital, and promoting a public philosophy, anchored in mid-century liberalism, that …
Origins of Modern Historiography in India
Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880
Av R. Mantena
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of …
Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain
Av L. Zastoupil
Inbunden, 2010
1095 kr
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This book investigates Rammohun Roy as a transnational celebrity. It examines the role of religious heterodoxy - particularly Christian Unitarianism - in transforming a colonial outsider into an imagined member of the emerging Victorian social order It uses his fame to shed fresh light on …
Indian Mobilities in the West, 1900-1947
Gender, Performance, Embodiment
Av S. Lahiri
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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How and why did Indians move within and across the West? What effects did this have on their identities? Despite the burgeoning scholarship on the postcolonial South Asian Diaspora, histories and geographies of colonial Indian mobility have received much less scrutiny. Focusing on a range of …
Reading of Russian Literature in China
A Moral Example and Manual of Practice
Av M. Gamsa
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party.
At the Edges of Liberalism
Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History
Av S. Aschheim
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that …
At the Edges of Liberalism
Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History
Av S. Aschheim
Häftad, 2012
568 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that …
