History of ideas Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThis book traces the development during the 20th century of four central themes in the philosophy of science. The themes, chosen for their importance are expounded in a way which does not presuppose any previous knowledge of philosophy or science. The book thus constitutes an excellent introduction to the philosophy of science.Trade Review"Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century is one of the best introductions to the philosophy of science now available." Peter Lipton, Times Higher Education Supplement Table of ContentsPart I: Inductivism and its Critics:. 1. Some Historical Background: Inductivism, Russell and the Cambridge School, the Vienna Circle and Popper. 2. Popper's Critique of Inductivism. 3. Duhem's Critique of Inductivism. Part II: Conventionalism and the Duhem-Quine Thesis:. 4. Poincare's Conventionalism of 1902. 5. The Duhem Thesis and the Quine Thesis. Part III: The Nature of Observation:. 6. Observation Statements: (a) the Views of Carnap, Neurath, Popper and Duhem. 7. Observation Statements: (b) Some Psychological Findings. Part IV: The Demarcation between Science and Metaphysics:. 8. Is Metaphysics Meaningless? Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle and Popper's Critique. 9. Metaphysics in relation to Science: the Views of Popper, Duhem and Quine. 10. Falsification in the light of the Duhem-Quine Thesis.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe
Book SynopsisThe first of three volumes which look at the history of scholastic humanism. This volume is concerned with the years between 1100 and 1160, when the main lines of scholastic thought were laid down and its agenda established.Trade Review"Here the 'practical, intellectual and spiritual aspects' of twelfth-century history are discussed by a historian whose knowledge of the period and mastery of the art of writing are almost without equal." History Today "The combination of synthesis with fresh and vivid work on detail is one of Southern's particular gifts ...The proportions of the book will fit harmoniously into the overarching structure outlined at the start of the book, but this volume can also stand just as well on its own - already a classic." Reviews in History "The recovery of scholasticism therefore calls for two qualities: technical expertise, and lucidity of thought and expression. No historian combines these qualities more conspicuously than R.W. Southern." Times Literary Supplement "This book is more than a synthesis of a life's work on twelfth-century Western culture by Britain's greatest medievalist - it is the most important book in recent decades on the twelfth-century renaissance and its significance. This is a book to be treasured and reflected upon for years to come." Norman F. Cantor, New York University "That such a sweeping vision is expressed so lucidly, while simultaneously conveying the human details and experience of the period with a combination of sensitivity and scholarly rigour, justifies the description by its first reviewers: 'masterpiece.'" Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsPreface. List of Maps and Plates. Abbreviations and Short Titles. Two Preliminary Maps. Introduction. PART ONE – AIMS, METHODS, AND ENVIRONMENT. 1 Scholastic Humanism. I Contrasting types of humanism. II Characteristic features of scholastic humanism. III The problem of the natural sciences. IV Summits of success. V The regulation of social life. VI The loss of hope. 2 Chartrian Humanism: A Romantic Misconception. I Introduction. II Humanism and the School of Chartres. III Replies to critics. 3 The Sovereign Textbook of the Schools: The Bible. I The qualities of the Bible in scholastic thought. II Methods of investigation. III Bringing the message of the schools to the world. 4 Social and Political Roots of Scholastic Thought. I Pre-scholastic and scholastic Europe. II The new symbiosis of schools and government. III The schools, society and the individual. IV The schools and the papacy. 5 The Men and their Rewards. I Scholars of the world. II Ancients and Moderns. III The new age. IV The glory and gossip of the schools. 6 The Scholastic Metropolis of Northern Europe. I Old institutions: new needs. II Stages in the triumph of Paris. III Conclusion. IV Appendix – A schedule of Parisian masters. PART TWO – TURNING DOCTRINE INTO LAW. 7 The Outlook in Northern Europe. I Truth and truth-enforcement. II Law and society in northern Europe. III Summits of northern European legal scholarship, c. 1050–1120. IV Federalism v. centralization. 8 The Outlook in Northern Italy. I Cultural potentialities and limitations. II Irnerius and the menace of Roman law. 9 The Integration of Doctrine and Law: Gratian. I Demand and response. II The man and his work. III The originality of his work. IV Method of work and date of compilation. V Gratian’s change of mind about Roman law. VI The personality behind the work. VII Did Gratian teach canon law? VIII The first masterpiece of scholastic humanism. IX Time and Place reviewed. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Roots of Modern Social Psychology
Book Synopsis* Challenges perceived ideas of the history of social psychology* Inter--disciplinary in that it provides a framework for understanding sociological as well as psychological forms of social psychology. .Trade Review"Rob Farr, Professor of Social Psychology at LSE, focuses upon the history of one discipline in this sparkling set of collected essays.... Social psychology, Farr argues, has a long past and short history. In this fine set of essays he provides many correctives to the simplifications of the textbooks." LSE Magazine, Winter 1996 "Written with verve and imagination, Professor Farr's book is an important and sure to be controversial attempt to revitalize historical thinking in social psychology." Professor Serge Moscovici, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris "... the first comprehensive history of social psychology, covering European, as well as American, sociological as well as psychological perspectives... provides an indispensable resource for anyone seeking more than a one dimensional orientation to social psychology." Kurt Danziger, Professor Emeritus, York University "Farr's often intriguing judgements, opinions, and speculations make, as intended, for a provocative book." Contemporary PsychologyTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Modern social psychology: a characteristically American phenomenon. 2. The emergence in Germany of psychology as a natural and social science. 3. The psychology of the masses and of culture. 4. George Herbert Mead: philosopher and social psychologist. 5. The Murchison Handbook of 1935: a truly comparative psychology. 6. The individualisation of social psychology in North America. 7. Sociological and psychological forms of social psychology. 8. Ancestors and founders: reconstructing the past. 9. War and the history of social psychology. 10. The long past and the short history of social psychology. Appendix I: Some significant dates in the emergence of psychology as an experimental and social science 1872 - 1937. Appendix II: The rubric for Paper V of the University of London Examinations in Psychology in the early 1960s. Appendix III: Reviewers comments on The Long past and the Short History of Social Psychology. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe Companion focusses on the international intellectual movement of the Enlightenment, and the individuals who shaped it. A number of substantial essays survey the main topics of dictionaries, encyclopedias, art, music and theatre, while central philosophical concepts such as human nature are also examined. Specialized topics receive short definitions and there are several hundred biographies. Chronology. 100 halftones. Bibliographies. Index.Trade Review"This enlightening companion is a work of reference valuable to anybody interested in the history of thought." The Times "An informative and authoritative resource." English Literature "This attractive reference book will be of enormous value to anyone interested in virtually any aspect of the Enlightenment ... an essential volume for libraries, Enlightenment scholars, and anyone interested in the age." History "Fine guide ... easy to use." Social & Behavioral Sciences "This encyclopedic Companion is a much-needed triumph. A superb collection of short entries by leading scholars who judiciously blend fact and interpretation. Will be received and remain as the standard reference tool. Illuminates every area of the Enlightenment." European History Quarterly "An immensely useful work of reference. This is a book which should be in every student's study." British Journal for 18th Century StudiesTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction: Lester G. Crocker. A-Z entries. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd BWEncy Modern Chrisiton Thought
Book Synopsis* Clear, comprehensive account of the Reformation Movements across Europe. * Includes suggestions for further reading and a guide to further study. * Text supported by maps, illustrations, a glossary, chronologies and genealogies. .Trade Review"This encyclopedia ... is refreshingly different ...(it) sets out to be an authoritative, readable and reliable reference source for the main features of modern Christian thought... Of all the dictionaries I have explored recently, this is by far the most useful. It delivers what it promises. Dr McGrath is to be congratulated." Scottish Journal of Theology "Theology is indebted to Alister McGrath for masterminding what is an absorbing, challenging and first-class encyclopedia. From beginning to end, it is characterized by lucidity and authority. As a one-volume encyclopedia, an easy reference guide, this book is hard to beat." Reviews in Religion and Theology "Ultimately, this encyclopedia succeeds because it is so much better than its rivals ... a precious resource." Theology "This is an extremely valuable book that should be in any reference library and will be welcomed also by non-specialists who want to get a handle on the directions and confusions of contemporary Christian thought." First Things "It is remarkably comprehensive for its size. The numerous entries provide a uniformly good and concise introduction into a subject...alphabetical organization of the volume by subject combined with an extensive key-word index makes the encyclopedia easy to use...[it] is a useful and reliable reference tool for those entering into the study of modern Christian thought." James C. Deming, Princeton Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Contributors. Dictionary Entries A-Z.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Enlightenment
Book Synopsisaeo A clear account of the founding movement of the modern world. aeo Wide--ranging with England, Scotland and Ireland receiving most attention, plus many references to American thought. aeo Encompasses all aspects of The Enlightenment -- literary, political, philosophical, religious and scientific.Trade Review"The great merit of the book is that the author's wide erudition informs and drives the narrative without ever encumbering it. One reads it with both pleasure and attention." Liberation Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Part I: The Age:. 1. Enlightenment and Fresh Light. 2. The Eighteenth Century as the Background to the Enlightenment. Part II: A Changing Society: . 3. The World of the Monarchs. 4. The Aristocracy. 5. The Clergy. 6. The Urban Middle Class. 7. The Farming Community. 8. The Common People. Part III: Europe and its States:. 9. The Way of the World. 10. Venerable Monarchies and Republics. 11. Cosmopolitanism versus the Nation States. Part IV: The Champions of Enlightenment:. 12. The Association Movement. 13. The Academy. 14. The Salon. 15. The Reading Societies. 16. Voluntary Charitable and Economic Societies. 17. Agricultural Economic Societies. 18. The Freemasons. 19. The Societies Within the Enlightenment Movement. 20. Periodicals and Books. Part V: Utopia and Reform:. 21. Improvement and Dreams. 22. Philosophy and Philosophers of the Philosophical Age. 23. Rational Christianity. 24. Natural Law, the Path to Human Rights. 25. Politics and Government. 26. The Economy, Economic Freedom and the Work Ethic. 27. Science, Medicine and Technology. 28. Education, Schools and Popular Enlightenment. 29. Virtue and Patriotism. Part VI: A Window Opened to a Wider World:. 30. A Window Opened to a Wider World. Part VII: Emancipation - A Release from Age-old Restraints:. 31. Political and Social Emancipation. 32. Emancipation of the Jews. 33. The Debate on the Role of Woman: On the Way to the Emancipation of Women. Part VIII: For and Against Radicalization of the Enlightenment:. 34. Radical Enlightenment. 35. Enlightenment by Decree. 36. Early Romanticism: The Reaction against the Enlightenment. 37. Traditionalistic and Governmental Reaction. Part IX: The Way Ahead into the Nineteenth Century:. 38. Nationalism versus Cosmopolitanism. 39. From the Enlightenment to the Revolutions. Notes. Bibliography. Table of Dates. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Greek Civilization
Book SynopsisPresents a survey of the world of classical Greece, its origins and legacy. This book moves from the prehistoric and protohistoric periods, through the era of Bronze Age palace societies - including those of Knossos and Mycenae - surveying the thousand and more years until the transfer of the Roman imperial court from Rome to Constantinople.Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Illustration Acknowledgements. Part I: Landscape, Seascape:. 1. The Physical Background: Friedrich Sauerwein (Modautal, Germany). Part II: The March of the Past:. 2. The Human Foreground: Robin Barber (University of Edinburgh). 3. The Bronze Age Palace Societies: Oliver Dickinson (University of Durham). 4. Archaic into Classical: Graham Shipley (University of Leicester). 5. Greek Kings and Roman Emperors: Helen Parkins and Graham Shipley (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and University of Leicester). Part III: Classical Mosaic:. 6. The Greek Countryside: Lin Foxhall (University of Leicester). 7. Politics and Public Life: the Urban Scene: Nick Fisher (University of Wales, Cardiff). 8. Greek Religious Practices: Robert Parker (New College, University of Oxford). 9. The Spoken and the Written Word: Kenneth Dover (University of St Andrews). 10. Examining Life: Edward Hussey (All Souls, University of Oxford). 11. Trades and Crafts: Alison Burford. 12. Architecture and Sculpture: Olga Palagia (University of Athens). 13. Crafts in the Private Sphere: Brian Sparkes (University of Southampton). 14. Women in Classical Athens: Sue Blundell (Birkbeck College, University of London). 15. Sex in Classical Athens: Brian Sparkes (University of Southampton). Part IV: Continuity and Change:. 16. The Christian Millennium: Averil Cameron (Keble College, University of Oxford). 17. The Ottoman Centuries: Malcom Wagstaff (University of Southampton). 18. After Independence: Richard Clogg (St Antony's College, University of Oxford). 19. The Greek Legacy: Michael Greenhalgh (The Australian National University). Timeline. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Greek Civilization
Book SynopsisPresents a survey of the world of classical Greece, its origins and legacy. This book moves from the prehistoric and protohistoric periods, through the era of Bronze Age palace societies - including those of Knossos and Mycenae - surveying the thousand and more years until the transfer of the Roman imperial court from Rome to Constantinople.Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Illustration Acknowledgements. Part I: Landscape, Seascape:. 1. The Physical Background: Friedrich Sauerwein (Modautal, Germany). Part II: The March of the Past:. 2. The Human Foreground: Robin Barber (University of Edinburgh). 3. The Bronze Age Palace Societies: Oliver Dickinson (University of Durham). 4. Archaic into Classical: Graham Shipley (University of Leicester). 5. Greek Kings and Roman Emperors: Helen Parkins and Graham Shipley (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and University of Leicester). Part III: Classical Mosaic:. 6. The Greek Countryside: Lin Foxhall (University of Leicester). 7. Politics and Public Life: the Urban Scene: Nick Fisher (University of Wales, Cardiff). 8. Greek Religious Practices: Robert Parker (New College, University of Oxford). 9. The Spoken and the Written Word: Kenneth Dover (University of St Andrews). 10. Examining Life: Edward Hussey (All Souls, University of Oxford). 11. Trades and Crafts: Alison Burford. 12. Architecture and Sculpture: Olga Palagia (University of Athens). 13. Crafts in the Private Sphere: Brian Sparkes (University of Southampton). 14. Women in Classical Athens: Sue Blundell (Birkbeck College, University of London). 15. Sex in Classical Athens: Brian Sparkes (University of Southampton). Part IV: Continuity and Change:. 16. The Christian Millennium: Averil Cameron (Keble College, University of Oxford). 17. The Ottoman Centuries: Malcom Wagstaff (University of Southampton). 18. After Independence: Richard Clogg (St Antony's College, University of Oxford). 19. The Greek Legacy: Michael Greenhalgh (The Australian National University). Timeline. Index.
£43.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social
Book SynopsisSelections from the best-known intellectuals and researchers in social theory around the globe. Includes discussion of not only traditional aspects of social theory, but also recent controversies surrounding such topics as self, identity and subjectivity; race, multiculturalism; modernism and postmodernism.Trade Review"Concise but Comprehensive, Anthony Elliott's Reader is an ideal companion to social theory -a real festival of contemporary social thought." Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge "Contemporary social theory is a treasure-house but also a minefield. One has to tread warily to find the gems. Anthony Elliott has done just that in selecting some of the most important and influential writings of the past 20 to 30 years. Here are all the familiar names but also some less familiar ones raising different but no less relevant questions. This reader will be invaluable to senior undergraduates and graduates seeking the path-breaking contributions in contemporary social theory." Krishan Kumar, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Anthony Elliott. Part I: The Theory of the Subject:. 1. The Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man: Herbert Marcuse. 2. Language and Speech: Roland Barthes. 3. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I in Psychoanalytic Experience: Jacques Lacan. 4. Revolution in Poetic Language: Julia Kristeva. 5. The Individual and Representation: Cornelius Castoriadis. Part II: Social Structure and Institutional Analysis:. 6. The Means of Correct Training: Michel Foucault. 7. Structures, Habitus, Practices: Pierre Bourdieu. 8. Elements of the Theory of Structuration: Anthony Giddens. 9. Society Turns Back upon Itself: Alain Touraine. 10. The Concept of Society: Niklas Luhmann. 11. Individualization and "Precarious Freedoms": Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Centered Sociology: Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. Part III: Contemporary Critical Theory:. 12. The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld: Jurgen Habermas. 13. Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights, and Solidarity: Axel Honneth. 14. Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity: Albrecht Wellmer. Part IV: Race, Multiculturalism, Difference: . 15. DissemiNation: Homi K. Bhabha. 16. Freud and the Epistemology of Race: Sander L. Gilman. 17. Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity: Paul Gilroy. 18. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Part V: Feminism, Gender, and Sexual Difference: . 19. The Reproduction of Mothering: Nancy Chodorow. 20. This Sex which Is Not One: Luce Irigaray. 21. Gender Trouble: Judith Butler. 22. Living with Uncertainty: Jeffrey Weeks. 23. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective: Donna J. Haraway. Part VI: The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate:. 24. Postmodernism: David Harvey. 25. The Postmodern Condition: Jean-Francois Lyotard. 26. Simulations: Jean Baudrillard. 27. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism: Frederic Jameson. 28. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism: Seyla Benhabib. 29. Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence: Zygmunt Bauman. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feminisms and Internationalism
Book SynopsisaeoThis is the first collection to illustrate the historical range of feminist internationalisms from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries. aeoReveals the diversity of feminist connections. aeoGoes beyond the dominant Euro--American international womena s organisations.Table of ContentsPart I: Abstracts:. 1. Introduction:. Why Feminisms and Internationalism?: Mrinalini Sinha, Donna Guy and Angela Woollacott (Southern Illinois University, University of Arizona and Case Western Reserve University). Part II: Articles:. 2. An Alternative Imperialism: Isabella Tod, Internationalist and "Good Liberal Unionist": Heloise Brown (University of York). 3. 'The New Women's Movement' in 1920's Korea: Rethinking the Relationship Between Imperialism and Women: Insook Kwon (Clark University, Worcester). 4. Madrinas and Missionaries: Uruguay and the Pan-American Women's Movement: Christine Ehrick (University of North Iowa). 5. Inventing Commonwealth and Pan-Pacific Feminisms: Australian Women's Internationalist Activism in the 1920s-30s: Angela Woollacott (Case Western Reserve University). 6. The Politics of Pan American Cooperation: Maternalist Feminism and the Child Rights Movement, 1913-1960: Donna J. Guy (University of Arizona). 7. Wong Jui Guie - Connecting the Tracks: Chinese Women's Activism Surrounding the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing: Ping-Chun Hsiung and Yuk-Lin Renita (University of Toronto). 8. Unifying Women: Feminist Pasts and Presents in Yemen: Margot Badran (University of Chicago). Part III: Forum:. 9. International Feminisms: Latin American Alternatives: Asuncion Lavrin (Arizona State University). Part IV: Forum Respondents:. 10. Feminisms and Internationalism: A View from the Centre: Leila J. Rupp (Ohio State University). 11. Feminisms and Internationalism: A Response from India: Mary E. John (Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi). 12. Feminist Representations: Interogating Religious Difference: Shahnaz Rouse (Sarah Lawrence College, New York). 13. Borderland Feminisms: Towards The Transgression of Unitary Transnational Feminisms: Jayne O. Ifekqunigwe (University of East London). Part V: Review Essays:. 14.Some Trajectories of 'Feminism' and 'Imperialism': Antoinette Burton (John Hopkins University). 15. Feminisms and Transnationalism: Francesca Miller (University of California at Davis). 16. Feminisms and International Relations: V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona). 17. Feminisms and Development: Valentine M. Moghadam (Illinois State University). Notes on Contributors. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd States Nations and Nationalism
Book SynopsisThe first general history of the evolution of states and nations in Europe from medieval times to the present. Written by one of the foremost of Germany's youngest generation of historians.Trade Review"Schulze's book is clearly aimed at a wide readership and is likely to be used widely in undergraduate courses on European history." History "Schulze demonstrates a high level of competence in tracing the growth of the nation and the state from the time of Charlemagne to the reign of Napoleon. But it is in his account of that point in the early 19th century when the nation and state fuse that his book achieves brilliance." ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface. Series Editor's Preface. Part I: States:. 1. The Advent of the Modern State. 2. Christianity and Reasons of State. 3. Leviathan. 4. The Constitutional State and the Rule of Law. Part II: Nations:. 5. The 'Nation' is not just any Nation. 6. Nation States and National Cultures. 7. The Pivotal Period. 8. The Invention of the 'Folk Nation'. 9. The Folk Nations in Reality. Part III: Nation States:. 10. The Revolutionary Nation State (1815-1871). 11. The Imperial Nation State (1871-1914). 12. The Total Nation State (1914-1945). Part IV: Nations, States and Europe:. 13. Nations, States and Europe. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Guide to the Modern Philosopher
Book SynopsisThis guide brings together eighteen original interpretations of the modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. The contributors succeed brilliantly in placing their figures within a rich historical, cultural, and philosophical context, noting some of the important ways in which their ideas and arguments were shaped by the intellectual currents of the time, and how they in turn shaped subsequent philosophical debate.Trade Review"Steven Emmanuel has done an impressive job of assembling a distinguished group of authors who give us a very helpful guide to the modern philosophers. With an eye to bringing us 'up to speed' on the more recent scholarship, the contributors provide a timely, readable, and highly worthwhile collection." John Fischer, University of California, Riverside "This is a wonderful resource! It provides a valuable service by drawing on experts for eminently clear and engaging narratives. I expect to refer to it often." M. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia "This book is a worthy acquisition." R.H. Nash, Reformed Theological Seminary, Choice, January 2001 "A superb volume...Each essay is clearly written, with most or all jargon carefully explained. By far this book's greatest asset...is the extraordinary way in which Emmanuel gets the different authors to provide, as if in concert, a chronological development of the main ideas of the period. Emmanuel's beautiful volume can, I think, very richly supplement a student's exposure to the period for those figures whose work receives little or no space on the syllabus." Patrick Mooney, John Carroll University, THES, 1/6/01Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Preface x 1 René Descartes (1596-1650) 1 Gary Hatfield 2 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 28 A. P. Martinich 3 Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) 43 Don Garrett 4 Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) 61 Steven Nadler 5 G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) 78 Donald Rutherford 6 John Locke (1632-1704) 101 Martha Brandt Bolton 7 George Berkeley (1685-1753) 127 George Pappas 8 David Hume (1711-76) 148 David Fate Norton 9 Thomas Reid (1710-96) 179 Ernest Sosa and James Van Cleve 10 Jean – Jacques Rousseau (1712-88) 201 N. J. H. Dent 11 Immanuel Kant (1724-18047) 223 Patricia Kitcher 12 Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) 259 Ross Harrison 13 G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) 278 Stephen Houlgate 14 Søren Kiekegaard (1813-55) 306 C. Stephen Evans 15 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) 326 Christopher Janaway 16 John Stuart Mill (1806-73) 343 Wendy Donner and Richard Fumerton 17 Karl Marx (1818-83) 370 Terrell Carver 18 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 390 Richard Schacht Select Bibliography 412 Index 415
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd One Thousand Years of Philosophy
Book SynopsisExplores the distinctive character of three traditions - Indian, Chinese and Western - that have dominated philosophical thought over the past thousand years. This book covers the history of Western thought alongside the Vedic philosophies of India, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, as well as Islamic and Jewish contributions to philosophy.Trade Review"Harre's work must rank as one of the most unique historical sources available: it provides an account of how particular philosophers and their works fit into the far broader context of a millennium's worth of thought without regard to hemisphere." Times Higher Education Supplement "He engages readers with a clear style, periodic conclusions, and predictions of dominant philosophical themes in the future. Helpful aids include an events time line, historical chart, notes, bibliography, and index." D.A. Haney, Marywood University, Choice, June 2001 "A millennium of deep thought compressed in an utterly accessible volume. Rom Harré serves the interested reader well in this carefully, systematically organized work. This is a book that invites the earnest reader to join the Long Debate and to recognize its vital importantce." -- Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Events Timeline and Historical Chart. 1. What is Philosophy?. The traditional Disciplines of Philosphy. The Methods of Philosophy. The Products of Philosophy. Part I: Philosophy in the East. 2. India: The Traditions. The Scope of Philosophy in India. The Vedic Tradition. The Velic Philosophies. 3. Indian Philosophy in the Second Millennium. Indian Materialism. The Analysis of Judgments. From Deliverance to Salvation. The Influence of the West. 4. China: Ancient Sources. Confucius and the Confucius. Taoism. The Issue of Immortality. Buddhism: From Mahayana to Zen. 5. Chinese and Japanese Philosophy in the Second Millennium. Neo-Conficianism. Chinese Philosophy Aboard. The Influence of the West. Part II: Philosophy In The West: Medieval Philosophy. 6. Islamic Philosophy. Three Sources of Islamic Philosophy. The Problems and their Philosphical Treatment. Traditionilst' Philosphical Attack on Philosophy. The Jewish Contribution to Medieval Philosophy. The Revival of the Aristotelian Influence. The Influence of Islam on the Latin West. The LAter Historyu of Islamic Thought. 7. Philosophy in Medieval Europe. The Christian Tradition. Our Knowledge of God, his Nature, and his Existence. Moral Rewsponsibility and God's Omniscience. The Great Divide: The via moderna displaces the via antiqua. Part III: Philosophy In The West: Modern Philosophy One: Mind And Cosmos. 8. The World Shapes The Mind: Realism and Positivism. The Foundations of Science. The Rise of Realism. Realism in Retreat. The Rise of Positivism. 9. Mind and Cosmos: Rationalism and Conventionalism. The Rationalist Account of Knowledge. Convetionalism: The Mind Shapes the World. Paradigms and the Sociology of Knowledge. 10. The Unity of Mind and World: Idealism, Phenomenalism and Phenomenology. The Rise of Idealism. Phenomenalism. Phenomenolgy. Part IV: Philosophy in the West: Modern Philosophy Two; Persons and Their Relations. 11. Human Nature. The Nature of a Person. Personal Identity. Knowinf People. Dualism and Destiny. 12. Relations Among Persons I: Moral Philosophy. Foundations of Morality. The Content of Moral Judgements. Existentialism. Recent Extensons of the Traditional Ethical Topics. Moral Relativism. 13. Relations Among Persons II: Political Philosophy. Philosophical Foundations of the State. The Evolution of States. The Historical Conditioning of Social Norms. Philosophical Foundations of Representative Government. Bibliography: References and Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Indian Thought
Book Synopsis* Covers American Indian thinking on issues concerning time, place, history, science, law, religion, nationhood, and art. * Features newly commissioned essays by authors of American Indian descent. * Includes a comprehensive bibliography to aid in research and inspire further reading. .Trade Review"This is a ground breaking volume. Its ideas intersect with diverse subfields of the discipline of philosophy as taught in North American universities. Each essay offers fresh ways of defining what philosophy is about." Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago "Descendants of survivors of the ‘moral monstrosity’ of near genocidal oppression of Native peoples are now within the ranks of professional philosophers and are hard at work rescuing and rehabilitating Indian philosophical thought. By reading these essays carefully, respectfully, and with open minds we have an opportunity to do better by Indian peoples than was the shameful case several centuries ago, and since. We will be better persons and philosophers for having done so, and better citizens, too." Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., Vanderbilt University "American Indian Thought contrasts US indigenous philosophies with Western academic philosophy. The writers explain perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, in ways that will challenge, inspire and fascinate readers across disciplines." Naomi Zack, University of OregonTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: American Indians and Philosophy:. 1. Vine Deloria, Jr.: Why We Respect Our Elders Burial Grounds. Part II: Epistemology and Knowing:. 2. Brian Yazzie Burkhart: What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us. 3. V.F. Cordova: Approaches to Native American Philosophy. 4. John Dufour: Epistemology and Understanding. Part III: Science, Math, Logic:. 5. Gregory Cajete: A Philosophy of Native Science. 6. Thomas Norton Smith: Indigenous Numerical Thought. 7. Anne Waters: That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory. Part IV: Metaphysics and Being:. 8. Ted Jojola: Notes on Identity, Time, Place, and Space. 9. Anne Waters: Language Matters: NonDiscreet NonBinary Dualism. 10. Maureen E. Smith: Crippling the Spirit, Wounding the Soul: Native American Spiritual and Religious Suppression. Part V: Phenomenology and Ontology. 11. Marilyn Notah Verney: On Authenticity. 12. Leslie Nawagesic: The Phenomenology of a Mugwump Life. 13. Anne Waters: Ontology of Identity and Interstitial Being. Part VI: Ethics and Respect:. 14. V.F. Cordova: Ethics: The We and the I. 15. Thurmond Lee Hester: Choctaw Conceptions of the Excellence of the Self, with Implications for a Native Education. 16. Laurie Anne Whitt: Commodification of Knowledge. Part VII: Social and Political:. 17. Steve Russell: Jurisprudence of Colonialism. 18. Dale Turner: Oral Traditions and the Politics of (Mis)recognition. 19. Annette Arkeketa: Repatriation: Religious Freedom, Equal Opportunity, and Institutional Racism. Part VIII: Aesthetics:. 20. V.F. Cordova: Ethics: From an Artist’s Point of View. 21. David Martinez: Along the Horizon A World Appears: George Morrison and the Pursuit of an American Indian Aesthetic. 22. Thurmond Lee Hester: On Philosophical Discourse: Some Intercultural Musings. Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sweet Violence The Idea of the Tragic
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive study of tragedy, this book deals with both theory and practice. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists.Trade Review"Terry Eagleton’s titanic tryst with the Tragic muse crowns a career devoted to exploring the ideology of aesthetic and political form … This is a brave and bracing book that bridges Eagleton’s secular, socialist ideals with his metaphysical and theological aspirations: a remarkable comedic spirit hovers over this passionate reflection on the temper of tragedy." Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University "Sweet Violence has all the characteristics that compel the reader, however tested and exasperated, to admire its author. It is long, discursive, packed with illustrations drawn from enormous reading in world literature, perverse and even, quite often, funny." New York Times "Eagleton has raised a banner for a terrifying but beautiful new seriousness in the arts, directly drawn from our contemporary world. It is an extraordinary achievement and ... an inspiration." The Guardian "The best book Terry Eagleton has yet written." English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Theory in Ruins. 2. The Value of Agony. 3. From Hegel to Beckett. 4. Heroes. 5. Freedom, Fate and Justice. 6. Pity, Fear and Pleasure. 7. Tragedy and the Novel. 8. Tragedy and Modernity. 9 Demons. 10. Thomas Mann's Hedgehog. Notes. Index.
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Harvard University Press The Sociology of Philosophies
Book SynopsisCollins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. He focuses on the social locations where sophisticated ideas are formed: the patterns of intellectual networks and their inner divisions and conflicts.Trade ReviewNo sociologist who is seriously concerned with understanding intellectual life can afford to ignore it… Randall Collins has rendered a service to sociology second to none. * Canadian Journal of Sociology *The one work that all sociologists of ideas, novices and veterans alike, hereafter must read… It is beyond question Randall Collins’ masterpiece. * European Journal of Sociology *[A] rich, systematic and empirically grounded account of intellectual change in three civilizations. The Sociology of Philosophies is an ambitious, comprehensive, and brilliant account of the rationalization process of three world philosophies: Western, Indian, and Asian. In Collins’ analysis, this developmental process is shown to be generated via social and conceptual networks… The book expounds upon an immense range of intellectual history, and certainly makes inspiring and interesting reading. And, despite the heavy subject and incredible scope, Collins’ writing style resembles an oral lecture more than an abstruse disquisition. * European Sociological Review *This astonishing book testifies to decades of research through the greater part of philosophy—East and West… It reaches out to the ordinary reader, who could acquire a rich education in the humanities just by following it through. * Library Journal *What an impressive book Randall Collins has written…so broadly learned, so ambitious in its analysis, and readable to boot!The Sociology of Philosophies is a truly astonishing work of scholarship based on a vast global erudition…it offers rich, highly illuminating and provocative insights on a vast array of topics.Table of Contents* Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction The Skeleton of Theory * Coalitions in the Mind * General Theory of Interaction Rituals * The Interaction Rituals of Intellectuals * The Opportunity of Structure * The Sociology of Thinking * Networks across the Generations * The Rarity of Major Creativity * Who Will Be Remembered * What Do Minor Philosophers Do? * The Structural Mold of Intellectual Life: Long-Term Chains in China and Greece * The Importance of Personal Ties * The Structural Crunch * Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece * The Intellectual Law of Small Numbers * The Forming of an Argumentative Network and the Launching of Greek Philosophy * How Long Do Organized Schools Last? * Small Numbers Crisis and the Creativity of the Post-Socratic Generation * The Hellenic Realignment of Positions * The Roman Base and the Second Realignment * The Stimulus of Religious Polarization * The Showdown of Christianity versus the Pagan United Front * Two Kinds of Creativity Comparative History of Intellectual Communities Part I: Asian Paths * Innovation by Opposition: Ancient China * The Sequence of Oppositions in Ancient China * Centralization in the Han Dynasty: The Forming of Official Confucianism and Its Opposition * The Changing Landscape of External Supports * The Gentry-Official Culture: The Pure Conversation Movement and the Dark Learning * Class Culture and the Freezing of Creativity in Indigenous Chinese Philosophy * External and Internal Politics of the Intellectual World: India * Sociopolitical Bases of Religious Ascendancies * Religious Bases of Philosophical Factions: Divisions and Recombination of Vedic Ritualists * The Crowded Competition of the Sages * Monastic Movements and the Ideal of Meditative Mysticism * Anti-monastic Opposition and the Forming of Hindu Lay Culture * Partitioning and the Intellectual Attention Space * The Buddhist-Hindu Watershed * The Post-Buddhist Resettlement of Intellectual Territories * Scholasticism and Syncretism in the Decline of Hindu Philosophy * Revolutions of the Organizational Base: Buddhist and Neo-Confucian China * Buddhism and the Organizational Transformation of Medieval China * Intellectual Foreign Relations of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism * Creative Philosophies in Chinese Buddhism * The Ch'an (Zen) Revolution * The Neo-Confucian Revival * The Weak Continuity of Chinese Metaphysics * Innovation through Conservatism: Japan * Japan as Transformer of Chinese Buddhism * The Inflation of Zen Enlightenment and the Scholasticization of Koan * Tokugawa as a Modernizing Society * The Divergence of Secularist Naturalism and Neoconservatism * Conservatism and Intellectual Creativity * The Myth of the Opening of Japan Conclusion to Part I: The Ingredients of Intellectual Life Comparative History of Intellectual Communities Part II: Western Paths * Tensions of Indigenous and Imported Ideas: Islam, Judaism, Christendom * Philosophy within a Religious Context * The Muslim World: An Intellectual Community Anchored by a Politicized Religion * Four Factions * Realignment of Factions in the 900s * The Culmination of the Philosophical Networks: Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali * Routinization of Sufis and Scholastics * Spain as the Hinge of Medieval Philosophy * Coda: Are Idea Imports a Substitute for Creativity? * Academic Expansion as a Two-Edged Sword: Medieval Christendom * The Organizational Bases of Christian Thought * The Inner Autonomy of the University * The Breakup of Theological Philosophy * Intellectuals as Courtiers: The Humanists * The Question of Intellectual Stagnation * Coda: The Intellectual Demoralization of the Late Twentieth Century * Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science * A Cascade of Creative Circles * Philosophical Connections of the Scientific Revolution * Three Revolutions and Their Networks * The Mathematicians * The Scientific Revolution * The Philosophical Revolution: Bacon and Descartes * Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality * Secularization of the Intellectual Base * Geopolitics and Cleavages within Catholicism * Reemergence of the Metaphysical Field * Jewish Millennialism and Spinoza's Religious of Reason * Leibniz's Mathematical Metaphysics * Rival Philosophies upon the Space of Religious Toleration * Deism and the Independence of Value Theory * The Reversal of Alliances * Anti-modernist Modernism and the Anti-scientific Opposition * The Triumph of Epistemology * Intellectuals Take Control of Their Base: The German University Revolution * The German Idealist Movement * Philosophy Captures the University * Idealism as Ideology of the University Revolution * Political Crisis as the Outer Layer of Causality * The Spread of the University Revolution * The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles * Meta-territories upon the Science-Philosophy Border * The Social Invention of Higher Mathematics * The Logicism of Russell and Wittgenstein * The Vienna Circle as a Nexus of Struggles * The Ordinary Language Reaction against Logical Formalism * Wittgenstein's Tortured Path * Form Mathematical Foundations Crisis to Husserl's Phenomenology * Heidegger: Catholic Anti-modernism Intersects the Phenomenological Movement * Division of the Phenomenological Movement * The Ideology of the Continental-Anglo Split Meta-Reflection * Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas * The Continuum of Abstraction and Reflexivity * Three Pathways: Cosmological, Epistemological-Metaphysical, Mathematical * The Future of Philosophy * Epilogue: Sociological Realism * The Sociological Cogito * Mathematics as Communicative Operations * The Objects of Rapid-Discovery Science * Why Should Intellectual Networks Undermine Themselves? * Appendices * The Clustering of Contemporaneous Creativity * The Incompleteness of Our Historical Picture * Keys to Figures * Notes * References * Index of Persons * Index of Subjects
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Harvard University Press The Culture of Time and Space 18801918
Book SynopsisKern writes about sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book’s 20th anniversary, Kern provides a new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies.Trade ReviewNo brief summary can do justice to the richness and range of this exciting book, which brims with ideas and insights, evidence and examples, and provides the most comprehensive account of the life of the mind in these crucial decades before the First World War, when so much of our modern world was formed and fashioned. Kern’s command of art and literature, painting and architecture, philosophy and psychology, physics and technology is awesome: he moves from Proust to Picasso, Einstein to Stravinsky, with consummate ease and unquenchable enthusiasm. * London Review of Books *A brilliant, gutsy essay in intellectual history [on] how thought, technology, art, and politics smashed objective time and bourgeois hierarchies of space. * The Nation *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Nature of Time 2. The Past 3. The Present 4. The Future 5. Speed 6. The Nature of Space 7. Form 8. Distance 9. Direction 10. Temporality of the July Crisis 11. The Cubist War Conclusion Notes Index
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Harvard University Press The Conversion of Imagination
Book SynopsisMaguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Original and thought-provoking, this book will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.Trade ReviewA fascinating, dense, mind-stretching, admirably thoughtful book that makes an original argument and is full of arresting and illuminating insights. One comes away from the book with a new sense of the coherence of Rousseau's thought and with new insight into many of the other writers considered-Pascal and Tocqueville to be sure, but also Montesquieu, Constant, Stendhal, and others. It is a book that is at once illuminating and highly personal, a book that allows us to see familiar works in new ways and casts a bright light on the complex role that the idea of imagination has played in the work of some of the most important French thinkers and writers since the seventeenth century. -- Jonathan Beecher, University of California, Santa CruzIn this bold book on the expansion of the imagination, Maguire shows how a single faculty of the soul takes over virtually the whole of the soul's functions, transforming them all. He traces how Rousseau and some of his heirs struggle with the consequences of an exalted imagination, which both constitutes and threatens to destroy the self. This impressive work opens up fresh and provocative perspectives on every thinker it treats. -- Christopher J. Kelly, Boston CollegeMaguire's book is a superb exercise in the study of an idea. Historically the imagination was deemed not much more than one of the senses and always subordinate to the dominion of reason...Like many studies in this genre Maguire's ranges widely, is thickly referenced, and abounds in rich insights. In a final chapter on Tocqueville he has some provocative (although not entirely flattering) things to say about the relationship between imagination and democracy that are very germane at a time when many Americans are worried about the integrity of their political institutions. -- B. G. Murchland * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Pascal: Imagining Memory 2. The Imagination of Reason 3. Rousseau and the Revolution of Enlightenment 4. Illusion's Reflection: Rousseau's Julie 5. The Consuming Infinite 6. Rousseau, and Restoration: Imagination and Memory 7. The Gravity of Illusion: Alexis de Tocqueville Conclusion Notes Index
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Harvard University Press American Incarnation The Individual the Nation
Book SynopsisIn exploring the origins and character of the American liberal tradition, Jehlen begins with the proposition that the decisive factor that shaped the European settlers' idea of America or the American was material rather than conceptualit was the physical fact of the land.Trade ReviewStudents of history and North America alike will find this work of enormous value in understanding many aspects of what constitutes ‘America’ and ‘the American,’ aspects which are often difficult to explain in the light of the European understanding of history… [A] stimulating and perceptive analysis of America… Those seeking deeper insights into the American nation will find this book of inestimable value. * Anglo-American Studies *For those approaching American literature from under the European shadow, American Incarnation is the culminating work… Jehlen’s brief is…that the successful emancipation of America from Europe cut American literature off not just from Europe but from history itself… American Incarnation is the brilliant elaboration of her position… [Jehlen has crafted] many breathtaking pieces of analysis. -- Michael Rogin * Criticism *Often brilliant, ever provocative… There are nuggets here not to be mined anywhere else. -- Annette Kolodny * Early American Literature *This demanding, closely reasoned work will become required reading for everyone in the American Studies field. * Choice *Brilliant and compelling… American Incarnation, widely ranging and throwing off ideas like sparks, ends with a look at our more dismantled cultural situation today. -- R. W. B. LewisThis is indeed an ambitious book, one likely to have a strong impact on American studies, both literary and historical. It is a complex and subtle reexamination of some of the central problems of the American liberal tradition. Jehlen has done a superb job of altering the terms of discussion and redefining the history of ideas in the American Renaissance in a subtle and compelling way. -- Eric SundquistTable of ContentsIntroduction: One Man, One World 1. Starting with Columbus 2. The Mammoth Land 3. Necessary and Sufficient Acts 4. Plain and Fancy Fictions 5. Transgression and Transformation 6. The Rebirth of Tragedy Epilogue: After the Culmination Notes Works Cited Index
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Harvard University Press Democracy Denied 19051915
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Harvard University, Asia Center Anarchist Modernity
Book SynopsisSho Konishi traces the emergence from 1860 to 1930 of transnational networks of Russian and Japanese cooperatist anarchists devoted to creating a state-free society. Arguing that this radical movement forms one of the intellectual foundations of modern Japan, Konishi offers a new approach to Japanese history that challenges Western narratives.Trade ReviewFrom Bakunin and Kropotkin to Esperanto and dung beetles, Sho Konishi’s compelling exploration of the transnational intellectual networks linking anarchists in Russia and Japan and the larger meanings of their encounters transforms our understanding of Japan’s global past. In its capacious breadth, theoretical sophistication, and empirical rigor, Anarchist Modernity offers a new model for the writing of East Asian international history. -- Mark Bradley, University of ChicagoAnarchist Modernity makes us rethink what we thought we knew about Japanese history. Konishi spotlights the little-known, yet consequential, interactions between Russian and Japanese thinkers in the making of modern Japan. The book connects all sorts of Japanese developments: the cult of Tolstoy, anarchism and socialism, the ‘Nonwar Movement,’ and the striking popularity of Esperanto. We grasp the richness of the struggle by influential Japanese to create a people-centered polity and world order, in contrast to the vision of a powerful European-style state promoted by Japanese leaders. Transnational history at its best, the book reveals how Russo–Japanese discourses on ‘cooperatist anarchist modernity’ shaped thought and behavior in both countries. -- Sheldon Garon, Princeton UniversityThis book offers an outstanding study of ‘transnational imagination.’ By tracing the close intellectual ties among Russian and Japanese anarchists, Esperantists, and others at the turn of the twentieth century, Konishi shows that there was an alternative world that was being imagined by these men and women, as well as by people (heimin) who sought to go beyond the nation state as the framework for their lives. They were anarchists in that they did not believe in the finality of the state apparatus, but they were, in Konishi’s words, ‘cooperative anarchists’ because they firmly believed in personal and community-level cooperation. They were imagining an alternative world from the one that would come to confirm its nation-centric orientation—and to bring so much tragedy to all people. A superb and even sensational reinterpretation, not just of Japanese history, but also of modern world history. -- Akira Iriye, Harvard University
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Harvard University Press Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in
Book SynopsisEarly in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer arrived in Paris and began to promulgate an exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton's lively study provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.Trade ReviewA fascinating study of the effects that the theories of the notorious Viennese physician, Franz Mesmer, had upon social and political thinkers during the two decades preceding the French Revolution. This book is a skillful exploration of the various psychological factors that made mesmerism a widely accepted attitude… [The book] will interest literary scholars as well as historians since mesmerism is examined as a phenomenon that bequeathed an attitude that found its expression in the writings of the preromantics and the romantics. * Virginia Quarterly Review *This is an excellent book and one of singular interest both to the historian of science and to the French historian. * Isis *[An] excellent and exemplary study in the history of ideas. Based on a thorough study of manuscripts, pamphlets, and journals, learned in its broad setting and persuasive in its internal logic, supported by richly relevant quotations and reproductions of contemporary engravings, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France provides a commendable model for those interested in the way ‘true’ and ‘false’ ideas interact and broadly influence behavior. * Science *Table of Contents1. Mesmerism and Popular Science 2. The Mesmerist Movement 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory 5. From Mesmer to Hugo 6. Conclusion Bibliographical Note Appendix 1. Mesmer's Propositions Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris Appendix 3. The Societe de l'Harmonie Universelle Appendix 4. Bergasse's Lectures on Mesmerism Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Societes de l'Harmonie Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text Index
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Princeton University Press Reading Obama
Book SynopsisDerided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. This title reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories.Trade ReviewA National Public Radio (npr.org/blogs) Mara Liasson Best Book of the Year for 2010 "James Kloppenberg, one of America's foremost intellectual historians, persuasively argues that [there is] a broader shift in American philosophy away from appeal to general principles, valid at all times and in all places, toward a reliance on local, historically particular values and ideals. Kloppenberg's own endeavor, in surveying the work in political and legal theory that seems to have shaped President Obama's thinking, is to argue for the coherence, the Americanness, and the plausibility of Obama's approach to politics and to the Constitution."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books "One of Kloppenberg's most important claims is that Obama embodies the spirit of pragmatism--not the colloquial pragmatism that is more or less the same thing as practicality, but the philosophical pragmatism that emerged largely from William James and John Dewey and continued to flourish through the work of Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and others. Kloppenberg provides an excellent summary of the pragmatic tradition--a tradition rooted in the belief that there are no eternal truths, that all ideas and convictions must meet the test of usefulness... Kloppenberg is best when he analyzes Obama's own writing--Dreams from My Father, The Audacity of Hope, and some of his memorable speeches. He gives an excellent analysis of Obama's views of Lincoln and of the ways in which he has come to terms with race."--Alan Brinkley, Democracy "This is an assessment of Obama that will make sense to those who championed his rise to the presidency but who now have reservations about the way he is executing the role. The case Kloppenberg makes is persuasive and, for anyone interested in the larger context of Obama's thinking, he demonstrates that this serious man is a rarity."--Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald "In short, Mr. Kloppenberg's brief intellectual biography of Mr. Obama provides an excellent portrait of the shining self-image of the progressive intellectual."--Peter Berkowitz, Wall Street Journal "Reading Obama is a welcome addition, not least because it is the first book to try to tease out a coherent political philosophy from the president. Kloppenberg, a prominent intellectual historian at Harvard, does this not by analyzing Obama's pre-presidential record or his campaign rhetoric or his policies but--like a senior professor sizing up a tenure aspirant--by reviewing Obama's published dossier. The chief works, of course, are Obama's best-selling books--his semi-fictional memoir, Dreams from My Father, and his campaign trial balloon, The Audacity of Hope; but Kloppenberg also draws on a passel of other writings and, most originally, on the issues of the Harvard Law Review over which Obama presided as editor in 1990. Pragmatism is a subject close to Kloppenberg's heart, and his expertise. Among his many learned writings on the subject are the landmark Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920, which appeared in 1986, and "Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?," a brilliant article in the Journal of American History in 1996, many of whose ideas resurface in his new work. With his breadth of knowledge and his simplicity of prose, Kloppenberg is a fine guide to these ideas. And lest we suspect that he is merely projecting a set of ideas he esteems onto a politician he admires--Obama, after all, has described himself as "a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views"--Kloppenberg is careful to elucidate the reasons for the happy congruence."--David Greenberg, New Republic Online "Kloppenberg has written an analysis of the intellectual influences that have shaped President Obama's world view. Those who find Obama puzzling need only study the books he read as a student, look at writings by his professors, and read his academic and autobiographical writings to understand what he thinks, why he thinks the way he does and how his presidency reflects the intellectual conclusions he has drawn from his education and life experiences. Obama impressed his law professors with his "exceptional intelligence' and "striking ability to resolve conflicts." As Kloppenberg explains, "his commitment to conciliation lies in his idea of democracy as deliberation, his sure grasp of philosophical pragmatism, his Christian realism and his sophisticated understanding that history, with all its ambiguities and ironies, provides the best rudder for political navigation. Reading Obama offers a fascinating view of the man Kloppenberg calls "the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century"--Newark Star-LedgerTable of ContentsIntroduction ix Chapter 1: The Education of Barack Obama 1 Chapter 2: From Universalism to Particularism 85 Chapter 3: Obama's American History 151 Conclusion: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition 249 Essay on Sources 267 Acknowledgments 287 Index 293
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Princeton University Press The Closed Commercial State
Book SynopsisPresents an account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. This book shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications of Kant's social contract theory with his defense of the right to work.Trade Review"Nakhimovsky's book is rewarding to read. Not only does it give a rich, vivid description of the issues and contending forces at a time when the future of the European nation-state system hung in the balance; it also calls into question some pervasive assumptions about the rise of capitalism."--Michael Rosen, The Nation "The [book] is a fascinating and always judicious account of a world of argument over whether and how European states could pursue economic vitality without destroying themselves and the rest of the world in the process... Nakhimovsky's lucid and engaging book is an invaluable contribution to that project, as well as to the broader study of the history of political and international thought and the contemporary resonances of historical debates."--Jennifer Pitts, Perspectives on Politics "As Nakhimovsky has brilliantly demonstrated, there is much for contemporary readers to be inspired by in Fichte's basic intuition that policies of public finance might be used not merely to regulate local economies and promote world peace but also to realize a robust and demanding conception of justice."--Frederick Neuhouser, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Perpetual Peace and Fichte's Theory of the State 15 Herder's Letter 15 Perpetual Peace and Power Politics 17 The Citizen of Frejus and the Philosopher of Konigsberg 22 The Citizen of Frejus, the Philosopher of Konigsberg, and the Professor at Jena 35 Toward The Closed Commercial State 61 Chapter 2: Commerce and the European Commonwealth in 1800 63 Gentz's Review 63 Perpetual Peace and The Closed Commercial State 65 Fichte's History of Commerce 74 Prussia and the Anglo-French Debate of 1800 84 Fichte's Contribution to the Debate 98 Chapter 3: R epublicanization in Theory and Practice 103 Fichte's Proposal 103 Fichte's Implementation Strategy 106 The Closed Commercial State and the Political Economy of Prussian Reform 115 Fichte's Moral Challenge Continued 126 Chapter 4: Fichte's Political Economy of the General Will 130 Hestermann's Review 130 Open Commercial State versus Closed Commercial State 134 Needs and Rights in Fichte's Theory of Property 143 The Transcendental Industrialism of The Closed Commercial State 157 Conclusion 166 Bibliography 177 Index 195
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Princeton University Press The Shape of the New
Book SynopsisExamines Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx--heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress--and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics--Amazon.com.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2015, chosen by Diana Farrell "I was struck again and again by the extraordinary breadth, erudition and lucidity of this book."--Fareed Zakaria, New York Times Book Review "This is a gem of a book in that it has the audacity to paint in big strokes to portray a great intellectual history that puts our often competing, current belief systems into their 18th and 19th century contexts. In light of the increasingly perplexing news headlines, this type of bold context setting is a real gift."--Diana Farrell, President and chief executive officer, JPMorgan Chase Institute in Bloomberg Best Books of 2015 "Montgomery and Chirot offer a sweeping defense of intellectual liberalism and an examination of its indelible influence on the modern world... Thoughtful, highly readable, and provocative."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Ideas as Historical Forces 1 PART I: INVENTORS OF MODERNITY AND WHAT BECAME OF THEIR IDEAS 17 1 Adam Smith: The Science of Man, Morality, and Money 19 2 Karl Marx: The Tragic Consequences of a Brilliant Theory 81 3 Charles Darwin: Struggle and Selection in the Realm of Ideas 148 4 Making Democracy: The Jefferson-Hamilton Debates 215 PART II: SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS REACTIONS AGAINST ENLIGHTENMENT 279 5 Counter-Enlightenment: From Antimodernism to Fascism 281 6 Christian Fundamentalism: The Politics of God in America 336 7 Purifying Islam: The Muslim Reaction against the Western Enlightenment 379 Conclusion: The Power of Ideas and the Importance of the Humanities 418 Bibliography 439 Index 473
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Princeton University Press The Consolations of Writing
Book SynopsisBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. ItTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2015 Rene Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association "[A] revelatory study... Zim's close readings of these in-tandem texts bear haunting witness to enduring conditions in the world that ought not to be but unfathomably are, despite all the vociferous protestations that decry inhumane treatment of the other."--Choice "This book clearly demonstrates the profundity of much writing from prison and is packed full of fascinating and, in my experience, accurate observations. Every prison chaplain ought to have this book on his or her shelf."--Terry Waite, Church TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. In Defense of Civilization 19 1. The Disciplines of Reason and Lyric Poetry 21 Anicius Boethius, Of the Consolation of Philosophy (ca. 524-25): The Foundations of Resistance in Dialogue and Lyric 21 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (1943-45): Christian Ethics and Lyric 47 2. Creative Dialogues with Textual Partners, Past and Present 79 Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation: A Political Guide to the Dilemmas of Religious Conscience (1534-35) 80 Antonio Gramsci, Prison Letters (1926-37): Dialogue in Dialectic 104 Part II. Preservation of Self 119 3. Memory and Self-Justification: Images of Grace and Disgrace Abounding 121 John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666): Writing the Eternally Present Self 124 Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1897): A Pastoral Letter of Disgrace Abounding 142 4. Memorial Narratives as Salvation for the Feminine Self 166 Marie-Jeanne Roland, Memoirs (1793): Writing History Herself 169 Anne Frank, The Diary and Tales from the Secret Annexe (1942-44): Life Writing 191 5. The Consolations of Imagination and Lyric Poetry 213 Jean Cassou, Trente-trois sonnets composes au secret / 33 Sonnets of the Resistance (1943): Preserving the Liberty of a Poet 214 Irina Ratushinskaya, Pencil Letter and No, I'm Not Afraid (1982-86): Preserving the Life of a Poet 241 Part III. Testimony for Mankind 265 6. With Hindsight and Beyond Resistance 267 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man (1947) and Ad ora incerta (1947-86): Resisting the Demolition of a Man 267 Primo Levi, Moments of Reprieve (1981): In Defense of Civilization 291 Conclusion: Beyond Testimony 302 Select Bibliography 311 Index 319
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Princeton University Press Professor of Apocalypse The Many Lives of Jacob
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography Category""[A] fascinating, judicious biography. Professor of Apocalypse is at once a history of ideas, a gripping psychological melodrama and a study of the surprising power of intellectual charisma to make and unmake lives."---Mark Lilla, New York Times Book Review"This comprehensive biography is an important one. . . . [Muller’s] cogently documented biography, empathic in its presentation and judgment, goes a long way in helping us put mortal flesh on the charismatic puzzle that was Jacob Taubes."---Steven E. Aschheim, Los Angeles Review of Books"In Professor of Apocalypse Jerry Z. Muller accomplishes the nigh-impossible task of contextualizing the manifold reminiscences and myths surrounding Taubes into a clearly periodized and expertly documented account."---Eugene R. Sheppard, Times Literary Supplement"Muller has written more than a biography of a talented and tormented Jew and professor of philosophy and religion. Through painstaking reconstruction of the myriad communities of scholars in which Taubes operated and the various worlds of ideas in which he revolved, Muller illuminates hitherto unconnected but fascinating chapters in European, American, and Israeli intellectual life."---Peter Berkowitz, Commentary"A well-crafted, exhaustively researched, intellectually balanced biography."---Abigail Rosenthal, VoegelinView"[Professor of Apocalypse] captures the complex personality of an exceptionally difficult man, and the complexity of the age he lived through. . . . Biographers often grow to despise their subjects. Not without cause, Muller at some points is clearly exasperated. But it speaks to his talent and patience that by the end of his book his readers cannot help but love Taubes, for all of his sins."---Daniel Miller, Mars Review of Books
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Princeton University Press Republics of Knowledge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A tour de force in helping us to rethink what we know about nation-states."---Andrae M. Marak, World History Connected
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Princeton University Press White Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""One of NPR's 'Books We Love'""This cogent study of ideas of race and freedom has added relevance and crossover potential in today’s political landscape." * Kirkus Reviews *"What makes Stovall’s work so valuable … is that his study of ‘white freedom’ helps illuminate the stakes of the present and the ongoing struggle over the meaning of American democracy. It is a fight, for some, to be free (or at least more free) of domination and hierarchy, and a fight, for others, to be free to dominate."---Jamelle Bouie, New York Times"Extremely convincing."---Ilana Masad, NPR"White Freedom is clear and engaging. It offers fresh insight to the idea of liberty — an idea that is increasingly at the fore of societal concern. Stovall doesn’t preach; he doesn’t try to convince anyone to come to his side. He offers important context to the history of the development of freedom, and engaging analysis supported by carefully researched evidence. Stovall, a professor of history and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University, gives us all the information we need, and then challenges us to look deeper."---Brock Kingsley, Chicago Review of Books"[P]owerful and persuasive demonstrations of the complementary relationship between freedom and race. . . . [White Freedom] is a treasure trove of historical detail, but it’s also written clearly and persuasively . . . a worthy addition to the recent surge of work rethinking the connection between race and other fundamental aspects of our social system."---Olúfémi O. Táíwò, The Nation"A valuable book."---David A. Bell, New York Review of Books"A read that racked my brain and challenged my own views about how I interpret what social justice and liberty mean for different groups of people and movements."---Kaylah Jackson, Vox"Stoval has not only made a brilliant and incredibly important contribution to the historiography on freedom and race, but also to our scholarly knowledge on the modern western world more broadly, and to the field of whiteness studies more specifically. The book is a must-read for any historian of the modern period; scholars of other humanities disciplines would nevertheless undoubtedly benefit from learning that the values of freedom and anti-racism indeed have a history; and that history is not how we might have until now thought."---Ruth Ennis, Connections"Tyler Stovall’s work is important in illuminating previously ignored areas of class, race and colonialism and should be better known and cherished."---Kenan Malik, Observer
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Princeton University Press Arts and Minds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Tyler Cowen's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2020""Lucid and scrupulously researched history."---Henry Hitchings, The Spectator"A comedy about preposterous or earnest characters at work in an essentially virtuous institution."---Matthew Sweet, History Today"I’ve greatly enjoyed reading Arts and Minds. . . . The book is clearly a labour of love, and is packed with interesting bits of information. . . . Anybody interested in the process of invention, diffusion and changing tastes will greatly enjoy reading this."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist"[Arts and Minds] is simply a very good read. Anton avoids the trap of writing as if for a dissertation and laying on the jargon, and simply tells a rattling good story, full of eccentric characters and colourful detail."---Mike Paterson, London Historians' Blog"This enjoyable and interesting book tells the story of the Royal Society of Arts from its founding in 1754 to the present day. . . . Howes is to be thanked for a story so very well told."---Peter Stansky, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"[An] interesting, detailed history of the RSA, whose broad mission was and is hard to define. . . . Historians of different interests will find this book fascinating, and Benjamin Franklin, an early member, would be pleased by it." * Choice Reviews *"Well-researched. . . . a generally entertaining and illuminating story."---Susan Bennett, Journal of British Studies"[An] original and important contribution. It will inform any subsequent historiographical efforts to understand the precise ways in which liberal industrial capitalist values and practices came to achieve their hegemonic position within modern Britain’s wider social order."---Theodore Koditschek, Journal of Modern History"Howes is to be thanked for a story so very well told.—Peter Stanksy, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"
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Princeton University Press A Short History of German Philosophy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lucid and literary, A Short History of German Philosophy is a more than valuable contribution to that which its title suggests (and then some)."---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews
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Princeton University Press What Are Jews For
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Thoughtful and scholarly."---Abigail Green, Times Literary Supplement
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Princeton University Press Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions
Book SynopsisMack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the 21st century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings.Trade Review"Mack treats complicated matters with an easy clarity that makes the book a delight to read. His discussions are at once enthusiastic and well-reasoned—focused on exactly what makes each of the texts so effective."---D.L. Patey, Choice"Lucid, thorough case studies."---Faye Hammill, Times Literary Supplement"An idiosyncratic collection of case studies… [attended to] with lucidity, energy, and detail.—Timothy D. Crowley, Renaissance Quarterly"
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Princeton University Press Violent Fraternity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An innovative and original study of Indian political thought — showing that the threat of violence between Hindus and Muslims has long shaped Indian political thinking, even before independence and partition."---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times "[Violent Fraternity] embodies the fresh and bold scholarship that is redrawing the intellectual map of the world."---Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review"[An] ambitious reconstruction of the thinking that drove India’s political elite in the half century before independence in 1947." * History Today *
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Princeton University Press Reading Old Books
Book SynopsisMack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the 21st century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings.Trade Review"Mack treats complicated matters with an easy clarity that makes the book a delight to read. His discussions are at once enthusiastic and well-reasoned—focused on exactly what makes each of the texts so effective."---D.L. Patey, Choice"Lucid, thorough case studies."---Faye Hammill, Times Literary Supplement"An idiosyncratic collection of case studies… [attended to] with lucidity, energy, and detail.—Timothy D. Crowley, Renaissance Quarterly"
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Princeton University Press The Failures of Philosophy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gaukroger displays a remarkably broad range: his sweep of knowledge is truly impressive. . . . Many of his local observations are startling, in a good way; he asks those of us who study the figures he discusses to step back and reflect on their ultimate objectives, their successes, and, yes, their failures."---Christopher Shields, MIND"Gaukroger’s narrative is creative and convincing, extremely dense and elegant at the same time, based on a jaw-dropping breadth and depth of scholarship. . . . All this is a rather convoluted way of saying that to my mind, our losses are not as great as they may seem: the fact that we have Stephen Gaukroger’s brilliant studies to read makes up in no small part for the failures of philosophy."---Jeroen Bouterse, 3 Quarks Daily
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Princeton University Press Numbers Rule
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010""Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers""Mathematicians, economists, and political theorists have made their own attempts to elucidate the math of voting, and figure out better electoral systems. The story of these efforts is told in Numbers Rule. . . . Timely."---Anthony Gottlieb, New Yorker"Clear and energetic. . . Szpiro charts this history selectively and with the use of major characters to render vivid a story of rival systems, which can easily degenerate into equations. He is a mathematician and uses tables to illustrate his arguments: but these are accessible to simple understanding. He is also a journalist and thus can tell a story."---John Lloyd, Financial Times"Although voting problems manifest subtle mathematical complexities, Szpiro is an excellent communicator of mathematical concepts with a nimble ability to sidestep technical jargon. . . . An interesting, selective introduction into the complexities of voting reform."---Donald G. Saari, Times Higher Education"A history of social choice theory, with much more detail (yet still readable) than one is used to receiving on this topic. I liked this book very much."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"I knew from reading Martin Gardner's columns that every voting system you can devise will occasionally turn up paradoxical results. . . . Szpiro walks you through the whole subject with very few equations."---John Derbyshire, National Review"Engaging storytelling . . . for a reader who is primarily interested in learning some of the historical context of the characters who have contributed to the mathematics of social choice theory, it is hard to imagine a better book."---Darren Glass, MAA Reviews"In Numbers Rule, mathematician and journalist Szpiro presents a refreshingly different presentation of the mathematics of voting and apportionment. . . . The mathematical content is not trivial, and it is well written, very clear, and should be accessible to readers with an understanding of arithmetic and a willingness to play with numbers." * Choice *"Highly entertaining. . . . Anybody who has ever decried election results will be fascinated in Szpiro's accessible explanations of the paradoxes and enigmas that occur in all methods of election, from electing a pope in Rome, to apportionment of seats in the Congress by our founding fathers to ensure justice for all, even the minority."---Phil Semler, Sacramento Book Review>"The author skillfully placed the development and evolution of the Social Choice theories in a broad historical context. The book shines in weaving the emergent math theories with historical circumstances. . . . [E]njoyable and informative."---Alexander Bogomolny, Cut the Knot"Szpiro's book is a highly recommended good read on the history of the problems, which could illuminate a seminar series on the issues."---Ron Johnston, Environment and Planning"It is an excellent addition to a growing body of literature that aims to convey ideas from the mathematical sciences to general audiences. Moreover, Szpiro's book is unique among other offerings in the mathematical social sciences in that it focuses on the historical development of the field. The narrative is engaging, witty, and easy to read."---Jonathan K. Hodge, Notices of the AMS"George Szpiro's Numbers Rule does not break any new ground in the field of social choice theory, but it is probably the most entertaining book one is likely to find on the subject. . . . [A]ll social choice theorists should read this book. . . .Szpiro's book is ideally suited to be a supplementary reading for graduate classes in social choice theory."---Justin Buchler, Public Choice
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Princeton University Press Adam Smith Reconsidered
Book SynopsisTrade Review"To call it revisionist is to understate its ambitions; revolutionary might be more appropriate."---Max Skjönsberg, Adam Smith Works"[A]n excellent book, a book which has some claim to be the most decisive contribution to the understanding of the importance of the relevance of the eighteenth century to modern political thought published in the last half-century."---James Alexander, European Journal of Political Theory"Sagar’s emphasis on putting the political back into the study of Smithian political economy bears significant fruit. . . . In this volume Sagar has given us a Smith worth reconsidering, and, indeed, one worth encountering again for insights into the virtues, vices, strengths, and weaknesses of the modern world."---Jordan J. Ballor, Law & Liberty"Richly rewarding, always intelligent. . . . All students of Smith’s political, historical, and moral thought should read Sagar’s book, and in that spirit I heartily commend this volume to fellow Smithian scholars."---Christopher J. Berry, Perspectives on Politics"Sagar delivers a fresh Smith, a rather unusual and highly complex thinker, far outstripping his caricature. Sagar’s volume resets the clock on Smith studies….Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics is a first-rate book."---Graham James McAleer, Perspectives on Political Science"A model of historical political scholarship."---Philip Bunn, The Review of Politics"[A] thoughtful and insightful addition to the secondary literature on Smith."---Jason Ferrell, Society
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Princeton University Press Robespierre
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Epic in scope, Robespierre relates how the man who became an icon of the movement for French democracy also became its first tyrant. Its narrative is a potent, timely warning that the very real danger of tyranny lies within democracy itself." * Foreword Reviews *"The virtue of Gauchet’s book is his laser-like focus on the one belief that shaped Robespierre’s constantly evolving opinions and actions: that government should reflect the will of the people, but particular interests, often involving conspiracies, stand in the way of the triumph of that general will."---Lynn Hunt, New York Review of Books"It is not so much Robespierre himself who is of interest to Gauchet, but Robespierre as a synecdoche for the revolution...It is to their considerable credit that in their introduction of the book, David A Bell and Hugo Drochon have elucidated the basic contours of Gauchet’s long career in their introduction, which will be absolutely indispensable to English readers likely to be less familiar with the polemical intentions behind this book. Indeed, as they themselves note, Robespierre offers perhaps the easiest entry point to Gauchet’s work."---Angus Brown, Tocqueville 21"Gauchet’s recent book, Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most...comes to us beautifully translated by Malcolm DeBevoise and introduced by David Bell and Hugo Drochon. Robespierre is a lively addition to an already spirited world of French revolutionary biographies."---Kevin Duong, Perspectives on Politics"Engaging. . . .Gauchet’s Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most is a stimulating addition to studies of Robespierre as a political thinker and orator."---Mette Harder, H-France Review
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Princeton University Press The Enlightenment as Social Criticism
Book SynopsisIn eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural change embroiled him in ideological conflicts and made him a target of persecution. The first intellectual in Southeastern Europe to voice the ideas of the Enlightenment in public and without qualificatioTrade Review"This study of one of the first Enlightenment intellectuals in the European periphery is itself a wonderfully enlightening union of biography on the one hand and social and intellectual history on the other. Kitromilides writes brilliantly about the actual experience of intellectual transmission: the high hopes with which the work begins, the fierce resistance it encounters, the human toll it exacts."—Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xv*NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION, pg. xvii*INTRODUCTION. BIOGRAPHY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, pg. 3*PART ONE: ITINERARIES OF A LIFE, pg. 15*PART TWO: THE COHERENCE OF A VISION, pg. 136*EPILOGUE, pg. 188*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 198*INDEX, pg. 204
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Coyer and the Enlightenment
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Voltaire and Camus The Limits of Reason and the Awareness of Absurdity
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Diderot et Galiani 233tude dune amiti233 philosophique
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Cirey dans la vie intellectuelle la r233ception de Newton en France
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Using the Encyclop233die Ways of Knowing Ways of
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Articles present fascinating arguments about the use and production of knowledge in the eighteenth century. [...] Using the Encyclopédie is a useful if predictably uneven collection of articles. It is likely to interest scholars focusing on the particular subjects covered in the articles, as well as those looking for inspiration or insight regarding the Encyclopédie in general.'New Perspectives on the Eighteenth-CenturyTable of ContentsEditors’ preface, or Dialogue between A and BAbbreviationsDavid Bates, Cartographic aberrations: epistemology and order in the encyclopedic mapDaniel Brewer, Constructing philosophersFabienne-Sophie Chauderlot, Encyclopédismes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui: informations ou pensée? Une lecture de l’Encyclopédie à la DeleuzePatrick Coleman, 'Figure’ in the Encyclopédie: discovery or disciplineThomas Dipiero, Bodies of knowledgeJulie Candler Hayes, Translation, (in)version and the encyclopedic networkCynthia J. Koepp, Making money: artisans and entrepreneurs in Diderot’s EncyclopédieRobert Morrissey, The Encyclopédie: monument for a nationPierre Saint-Amand, Les progrès de la civilité dans l’EncyclopédiePhilip Stewart, The Encyclopédie on-lineDowning A. Thomas, Taste, commonality and musical imagination in the EncyclopédieAnn-Marie Thornton, Translating the garden: references to Philip Miller’s The Gardener’s dictionary in the Encyclopédieof Diderot and d’AlembertJanie Vanpée, La Femme mode d’emploi: how to read the article FEMME in the EncyclopédieAnne C. Vila, The body in crisis: vitalism, hydrotherapy and medical discourse in the EncyclopédieStephen Werner, The Encyclopédie ‘index’List of works citedIndex of articlesIndex of persons
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation History of the book Translation History of ideas
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI. History of the bookRobert Darnton, The science of piracy: a crucial ingredient in eighteenth-century publishingII. TranslationPatrick Graille et Mladen Kozul, De la monstruosité pontificale, ou Tableau fidèle des papes de Davisson, traduit par d’Holbach: édition critiqueLawrence Kerslake, Rivarol’s evaluation and translation of DanteJudith P. Zinsser and Olivier Courcelle, A remarkable collaboration: the marquise Du Châtelet and Alexis ClairautIII. History of ideasPeter Hallberg, History writing and the idea of ‘the public’ in eighteenth-century Sweden: Olof Dalin’s history of the realmJeff Loveland, Louis-Jean Marie Daubenton and the EncyclopédieElizabeth Rechniewski, References to ‘national character’ in the Encyclopédie: the western European nationsJean-Nicolas Rieucau, Les origines de la philosophie probabiliste de Condorcet: une tentative d’interpretationIV. Paul et VirginieDenis Grélé, L’utopie inversée: le Paradis de Paul et Virginiede Bernardin de Saint-PierreIan Henderson, A new appreciation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et VirginieV. VariaCatherine Thomas, Le dix-huitième siècle, ou les ris et les jeux: le mythe du dix-huitième siècle chez les ‘petits romantiques’ (1830-1850)William F. Edmiston, Atrocities of a different kind: incest and the veil in Sade’s Aline et Valcour
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Progr232s et perfectibilit233 un dilemme des Lumi232res fran231aises 17551814
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Questce que les Lumi232res La reconnaissance au
Book SynopsisTrade Review'The diversity of methodology and subject-matter in this volume happily attests to the interdisciplinary nature of high-quality research into eighteenth-century thought, art and letters.'Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsI. InterdisciplinaritySarah Maza, Interdisciplinarity: (Why) is it still an issue?II. Qu’est ce que les Lumières?Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert et Kate E. Tunstall, Préface: Retour sur la question kantienne: ‘Qu’est-ce que les Lumières?’Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert, Introduction: Le temps des Lumières1. Continuité et rupture avec le dix-septième siècleAntony McKenna, La philosophie des Lumières et le statut de la philosophie clandestineDinah Ribard, Les Lumières avant les Lumières? Historiographie de l’opinion publique et discours d’auteurs (dix-septième siècle)Michael Moriarty, Malebranche: le combat contre le préjugéAndré Charrak, La question du fondement des lois de la nature au dix-huitième siècle2. Politique, religion siècleJean Khalfa, Rousseau et le fondement rationnel de l’EtatDominique Bourel, Y a-t-il des Lumières juives ou qu’est-ce que la Haskalah?3. Esthétique des LumièresWill McMorran, Quichottisme et Lumières: lectures romanesques de jeunesse (Scarron, Rousseau, Loaisel de Tréogate) Jean Salem, Thèmes épicuriens dans Les Egarements du cœur et de l’esprit de CrébillonKate E. Tunstall, ‘Le récit est un voile’: esthétique et Lumières4. Suite et fin des LumièresRussell Goulbourne, Horace au siècle des Lumières: sapere aude et la pré-histoire de la devise kantienneDavid McCallam, Anecdote et Lumières: le cas de ChamfortDenis Thouard, Qu’est-ce que les Lumières pour le premier romanstisme?RésumésIII. La reconnaissance au dix-huitième siècleEdward Nye, La reconnaissance au dix-huitième siècle: IntroductionDominique Orsini, Du théâtre au roman: la révélation de l’inceste dans L’Illustre Malheureuse de l’abbé Olivier et Mémoires de la comtesse d’Horneville de Claude-François SimonAlison Roberts, Reconnaissance et instinct dans le Cleveland de PrévostAlain Schorderet, Sade avec Jaucourt: la crise de la reconnaissance dans l’Encyclopédie et Aline et ValcourGeneviève Lafrance, De la reconnaissance comme aveu: anagnorisis et sacrifice mémoriel dans Corinne ou l’Italie de Mme de StaëlEmilie Cauvin, Du traitement du procédé de la reconnaissance dans quelques œuvres de Mme RiccoboniOlivier Delers, Reconnaissance de dette: don et contre-don dans Histoire d’Ernestine de Marie RiccoboniMarion Lafouge, De l’ignorance à la connaissance: les Lumières de l’Orient selon Rameau et CahusacOlivier Tonneau, ‘Ah! Si vous pouviez lire au fond de mon cœur...’: Diderot et le mythe de l’intérioritéLaurence Marie, Œdipe au salon: quelle reconnaissance pour le Fils naturel?Nathalie Kremer, Œdipe ou la reconnaissance au-delà de la vraisemblance: enjeux poétiques de la dramaturgie voltairienneRésumésIV. History of artAngelica Goodden, Ramsay, Rousseau, Hume and portraiture: intus et in cute?Kate E. Tunstall, Text, image, intertext: Diderot, Chardin and PlinyV. History of ideasKevin Bourque, ‘Tout est en desordre dans la ruche’: republican discourse, patriarchal strategy and gendered labour in the bees of the EncyclopédieTimothy Reeve, Death in Condorcet’s Eloges des académiciens de l’Académie royale des sciencesSummaries
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