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Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality
Historical, Methodological and Philosophical Issues
Inbunden, 2009
2544 kr
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Vincent Guillin uses the issue of sexual equality as a prism through which to examine important differences – epistemological, methodological and theoretical – between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill. He succeeds in showing how their differing conceptions of science and human nature influence …
Elements of Representation in Hobbes
Aesthetics, Theatre, Law, and Theology in the Construction of Hobbes's Theory of the State
Inbunden, 2009
2464 kr
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Commentators have traditionally constructed Hobbes's thinking on representation too narrowly, as a self-contained area of his political theory. This book challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, which owes less to Hobbes’s thought than to contemporary preconceptions of what counts as …
Whose Love of Which Country?
Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe
Inbunden, 2010
3143 kr
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Contributors to this volume seek to reconsider the heritage of discourses of patriotism and national allegiance in East Central Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. It results from an international research project, “The Intellectual History of Patriotism and the Legacy of …
Agents of the People
Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in British and Swedish Parliamentary and Public Debates, 1734–1800
Inbunden, 2010
3076 kr
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This book on the pre-history of democratization shows how and why more modern attitudes to democracy started to emerge in the late eighteenth century. Focusing on the language of parliamentarians, the author reconstructs and compares debates on the political role and representation of the people in …
Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers
From Friedrich von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin
Inbunden, 2011
2323 kr
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Following the publication of Isaiah Berlin's essay on Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), the Savoyard philosopher has been known primarily in the English-speaking world as a precursor of fascism. The essays in this volume challenge this view. Disclosing the inaccuracies and limitations of Berlin's …
Why Concepts Matter: Translating Social and Political Thought
Inbunden, 2012
2296 kr
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Translation is indispensible to transmissions of knowledge across time and place; to understanding how and what others think. There is a vast stock of theories about how to translate, deriving mainly from controversies about sacred and literary works. Yet there is little discussion of the …
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
The Political Thought of Johan & Pieter de la Court
Inbunden, 2011
3023 kr
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The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers Johan (1622-1660) and Pieter de la Court (1618-1685), two successful textile …
Citizenship Experiment
Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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The Citizenship Experiment explores the fate of citizenship ideals in the Age of Revolutions. While in the early 1790s citizenship ideals in the Atlantic world converged, the twin shocks of the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolutionary Terror led the American, French, and Dutch publics to …
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
The Essential Political Writings
Inbunden, 2014
2327 kr
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès occupies a prominent place within the history of political thought. He stands at the forefront of both the discourses on human rights and on democratic constitutionalism. And yet, because of his theory of the constituent power he holds a somewhat ambivalent reputation as an …
Making of Englishmen
Debates on National Identity 1550-1650
Inbunden, 2013
2839 kr
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Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of …
Intellectual Origins of the Republic
Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey
Inbunden, 2015
2534 kr
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Few studies tracing the history of liberalism have taken into account that its reception in non-Western or westernising countries, in the form of the denial or acceptance of its core values and institutions, is an important aspect of the liberal tradition. In Intellectual Origins of the Republic: …
Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought
Inbunden, 2017
2870 kr
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The notions of happiness and trust as cements of the social fabric and political legitimacy have a long history in Western political thought. However, despite the great contemporary relevance of both subjects, and burgeoning literatures in the social sciences around them, historians and historians …
Sensibilities of the Risorgimento
Reason and Passions in Political Thought
Inbunden, 2018
1989 kr
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A purely political framework does not capture the complexity of the culture behind Italians’ struggle for liberty and independence during the Risorgimento (1815-1861). Roberto Romani identifies the sensibilities associated with each of the two main political programmes, Mazzini’s republicanism and …
Discourses of Decline
Essays on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema
Av Joris Oddens
Inbunden, 2021
1723 kr
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This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. While scholarship on republicanism thrives, the idea of decline, which has been prominent in republican theory since antiquity, has received relatively little attention. The essays in this volume take a broad cultural …
Cosmopolitan Conservatisms
Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas and Movements (c. 1700‒1930)
Av Matthijs Lok
Inbunden, 2021
2400 kr
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This volume presents a fresh picture of the historical development of “conservatism” from the late 17th to the early 20th century. The book explores the broader geographies and transnational dimensions of conservatism and counterrevolution. The contributions show how counterrevolutionary concepts …
Civilization of Modernity
An Anthology of Carlo Cattaneo's Writings
Av Carlo G. Lacaita, Alberto Martinelli
Inbunden, 2024
2558 kr
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Carlo Cattaneo was one of the most prominent Italian intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Known for his prominent role in the Five Days of Milan uprising in 1848, he combined a vivid intelligence with a reform-oriented mind and a strong civic passion. This volume offers an exhaustive selection …
