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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Frederick Rosen, Cyprian Blamires, Richard Whatmore et Peter Niesen, tous quatre connus de longue date pour leur familiarité avec Bentham, […] analysent ‘la dette de Bentham’ à l’égard du publiciste genevois Etienne Dumont et le tricotage de leurs idées tant sur la démocratie dans les petits Etats et sur les règles de la délibération parlementaire que sur ‘l’utopie panoptique.'- Société Suisse pour l’Etude du XVIIIe Siècle, Bulletin n° 36Table of ContentsEmmanuelle de Champs et Jean-Pierre Cléro, PréfaceI. Un philosophe anglais en France: Lumières et Révolution (1770-1795)James H. Burns, Bentham, Brissot et la science du bonheurSophie Audidière, La correspondance sans suite de Bentham et Chastellux: la thèse de la félicité publique, du ‘revenu net’ au calcul ‘félicitaire’Malik Bozzo-Rey, Loi et volonté chez Bentham et RousseauAnne Brunon-Ernst, Organiser l’espace de la docilité: comparaison des écrits sur la Révolution française et sur le panoptiquePhilip Schofield, Bentham et la réaction britannique à la Révolution françaiseII. Bentham et Dumont: les premières traductions françaisesFrederick Rosen, ‘You have set me a strutting, my dear Dumont’: la dette de Bentham à l’égard de DumontCyprian Blamires, Bentham, Dumont et le panoptiqueRichard Whatmore, Etienne Dumont et le benthamisme: la démocratie dans les petits EtatsPeter Niesen, Une petite mappemonde du chaos: la délibération parlementaire chez Bentham et DumontManuel Escamilla, Bentham en Espagne, via la Suisse et la FranceIII. Utilitarisme, socialisme et libéralisme: Bentham en France au XIXe siècleMarie-Laure Leroy, Constant lecteur de Bentham: égoïsme, droit, utilitéJoël-Thomas Ravix et Marc Deschamps, La liberté contre le bonheur: Morellet et Constant face à BenthamMichel Bellet, Saint-simonisme et utilitarisme: Saint-Simon lecteur de BenthamFrançois Vatin, Les économistes libéraux français entre kantisme et benthamisme: Pellegrino Rossi et Jules DupuitNathalie Sigot, Des dangers de l’utilitarisme benthamien: les économistes libéraux français du XIXe siècle face à BenthamIV. Bentham en France au XXe siècle: perspectives critiquesEmmanuelle de Champs, Elie Halévy: Bentham et l’AngleterreGuillaume Tusseau, La réception de l’œuvre de Jeremy Bentham par les juristes français: l’exemple de Michel VilleyJean-Pierre Cléro, Lacan, Jakobson et BenthamChristian Laval, Comment Michel Foucault a-t-il lu Bentham?

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction: Sociability and sceptical sentimentalism2. Intellectual change in Bernard Mandevillei. Hobbism in The Fable of the beesii. The critique of Hobbism in the 1720sii. Part II and the history of civil society3. The publishing history of The Fable of the beesi. Mandeville’s publishers and the question of copyright ownershipii. Jacob Tonson the younger and The Fable of the beesiii. Part II and Origin of honour4. Social theory in A Treatise of human naturei. Hutchesonian leanings and anatomy of moralsii. Hume’s distance from The Fable of the bees and his attachment to Mandevilleiii. Self-love and justiceiv. Self-liking and politenessv. Government and political sociability5. EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe last of the great Enlightenment encyclopedias, Charles Joseph Panckoucke’s Encyclopédie méthodique was originally conceived as an innovative revision of the Encyclopédie and the Supplément.Trade ReviewReviews'This book represents an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship comparing Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie and its successor, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke’s Encyclopédie methodique.'French studiesReviews'Doig has captured in this book the very spirit of Panckoucke’s massive encyclopedia […]. She demonstrates with perspicacity and depth not only how the great Méthodique was written, but more importantly, how it should be read and, in turn, understood.'SHARP News'Kathleen Hardesty Doig has produced the first monograph studying the Encyclopédie méthodique in its entirety. [...] applying qualitative and quantitative comparisons of content, [she] is more concerned with the Méthodique’s textuality than with its materiality.'The British journal for the history of science‘Doig has produced an imposing empirical study whose large amount of detail makes it an indispensable tool for future studies of the Encyclopédie méthodique’. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century‘This deeply researched work explores the construction of Panckoucke's innovative enterprise. It sheds new light on the emergence and development of the disciplines as well as their respective boundaries and interrelations. The breadth of Kathleen Doig’s scholarship is remarkable.’Robert J. Morrissey, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Mathematics and physics2. Medicine, anatomy and chemistry3. Agriculture and the natural sciences4. History and geography5. Theology, philosophy, grammar and literature6. Law and political economy7. The military arts8. The fine arts, architecture and music9. The mechanical arts10. Miscellaneous subjectsConclusionList of dictionaries of the Encyclopédie méthodiqueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisComment agit-il sur la transformation de la ville, de sa population et de son économie?David Do Paço analyse ici la place centrale qu’occupent les marchands et les diplomates ottomans dans la ville. Les oppositions entre la cour et la ville, le centre et les périphéries, les sujets naturels et les étrangers, se trouvent bouleversées.Trade ReviewReviews ‘L’ouvrage réussit son pari d’une approche plurielle, fine et nuancée de l’Orient à Vienne’.Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaineTable of ContentsIntroduction: là où disparaissent les diasporas1. Un enlèvement au sérail: contexte sociopolitique de l’orientalisme viennois2. Les trois clés de l’Orient: outils d’une gestion administrative3. Identités viennoises: ‘la patrie, la religion, la qualité et le véritable nom’4. Circulations et mobilités entre les empires: Vienne, périphérie ottomane intégrée5. Une intégration opportuniste: administrateurs, bourgeois et marchands 6. La sociabilité des petites douceurs: une élite transimpériale 7. La ville révélée: radiologie de l’intégration des hommes et des espaces urbainsConclusionAnnexe: La ville de Vienne vers 1770 BibliographieIndex

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Book SynopsisAnalysis of Raynal's renowned 18th-century classic the 'Histoire des Deux Indes', focusing on its colonial aspects and global networks.Trade ReviewReviews ‘All of the essays are scrupulously researched, with extensive footnotes referencing primary and secondary sources, and the volume’s bibliography is a comprehensive guide to the booming field of Raynal studies. [It will form a] substantive contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the “global eighteenth century”.’Modern Language Review‘This volume of twenty essays constitutes a timely intervention into debates about global history, which, where studies of the eighteenth century are concerned, have been characterized by a certain scepticism’.French Studies‘Ce volume propose une moisson fort riche sur une œuvre considérable dans son étendue’.-Dix-huitième siècleTable of ContentsCecil Courtney and Jenny Mander, IntroductionI. The theme of global exchange in the Histoire des deux IndesStéphane Pujol, La logique des échanges dans l’Histoire des deux IndesPeter Jimack, Coconuts, spice and sugar: indolence, energy and social interaction in the Histoire des deux IndesChristian Donath, Apostles of the state: legitimate colonisation tactics in the Histoire des deux IndesAntonella Alimento, Entre rivalité d’émulation et liberté commerciale: la présence de l’école de Gournay dans l’Histoire des deux IndesSylvana Tomaselli, On labelling Raynal’s Histoire: reflections on its genre and subjectDaniel Droixhe, Y a-t-il vraiment une ethnologie chez Raynal? L’enfance de l’art américain dans les ‘Deux Indes’ Daniel Gordon, Uncivilised civilisation: Raynal and the global public sphereII. Mediating networks: the making and marketing of the Histoire des deux IndesKenta Ohji, Raynal auto-compilateur: le projet d’une histoire politique de l’Europe moderne – des Mémoires historiquesà l’Histoire des deux IndesGilles Bancarel, Ecriture et information: aux sources du réseau de RaynalGianluigi Goggi, La seconde édition de l’Histoire des deux Indes: relations entre libraires et stratégie de lancement dans les annonces des gazettesIda Federica Pugliese, From antagonism to a common fate: Guillaume-Thomas Raynal and William RobertsonSusanne Greilich, ‘Et moi suis-je sur des roses?’: l’Histoire des deux Indes entre l’historiographie espagnole, leyenda negra et discours anticolonialUrsula Haskins Gonthier, The ‘Supplément au journal de Bougainville’: representations of Native Canadians in the Histoire des deux IndesIII. The Histoire des deux Indes and its network of readersFredrik Thomasson, Raynal and Sweden: royal propaganda and colonial aspirationsReinier Salverda, Raynal and Holland: Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes and Dutch colonialism in the age of EnlightenmentHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Controverses transatlantiques: contenus, enjeux et impact international de la Letter to the abbé Raynal (1782) de Thomas PaineJennifer Tsien, Louisiana as a figment of the imagination: Raynal’s reflections on the French American colonyMuriel Collart, L’Histoire des deux Indes et le Dictionnaire universel des sciences de Jean-Baptiste RobinetPhilippe Barthelet, Raynal sous le feu de ses adversaires: l’exemple de Joseph de MaistreGeorges Dulac, Un protestant languedocien admirateur de Raynal: l’Histoire des deux Indes dans le fonds Louis Médard de Lunel

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Book SynopsisA compelling account of the origins of the Islamist Revolution and the ideas and energy mobilising the Islamic worldTrade Review'Erudite, and most readable. Educates us about the history and philosophy of the Islamic world, and its various factions' -- Seymour M. Hersh, the New Yorker magazine'Required reading at a time when alternative perspectives on the causes of global terrorism and new Western diplomatic initiatives urgently need to replace the failed policies of the Bush administration-led 'War on Global Terrorism' -- John Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I - Existential Threats 1. In the Service of God and the Interests of the People Part II - Ideology of Revolution 2. The Awakening of Resistance 3. Political Shi'ism 4. Social Revolution 5. God is a Liberal Part III - Practising Resistance 6. A Culture of Willpower and Reason 7. Refusing Subservience Part IV - Demonisation 8. Resistance and the normalisation of Injustice 9. The Nature of Power Conclusion 10. The Limits to the Present Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRescuing Kropotkin's anarchist philosophy from the neglect and misrepresentation it has suffered.Trade Review'I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a lively introduction to the man's writing and its implications' -- John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography, UCLA'A deeply intellectual, yet readable account of Kropotkin's life and thought, set in the context of a stellar account of the development of scientific anarchism. Essential for all critical thinkers and political activists desperately in need of a dose of optimism in these sorry times' -- Richard Peet, Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University'An excellent contribution to this 'anarchist Renaissance' and should be read and referenced by all those who hope to heed the call to revolutionary praxis' -- LSE Review of Books'[A] wonderful introduction to Kropotkin’s thought' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of Books'An excellent introduction to Kropotkin’s life and theory' -- Science & SocietyTable of Contents1. Anarchism Before Kropotkin 2. Kropotkin: The Education of an Anarchist 3. Kropotkin and the Legitimization of Anarchism 4. 'Scientific Anarchism’ and Evolutionary Theory: Towards an Ontology of Anarchist Ethics and Altruism 5. Kropotkin’s Anarchism and the Nineteenth-Century Geographical Imagination: Towards an Anarchist Political Geography Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA diverse and impactful collection of essays on the postcapital futureTrade Review'These valuable essays on the contemporary crisis of capitalism explore numerous theoretical approaches to challenging the dominance of capital, opening the door to further explorations of what a postcapitalist society can actually consist of' -- Peter Hudis, author of 'Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism' (Haymarket, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Endings Of Capitalism Beyond Crisis and Hope - Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey (De Montfort University & University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) 1. Critical IPE and the End of History - Owen Worth (University of Limerick) 2. Dialectical Ends and Beginnings: Why Barbarism at the End of Capitalism Means Barbarism Beyond Capitalism - Bryant William Sculos (Worcester State University) 3. A New Wheel to Keep Capitalism Moving?: The Artificial Womb in Feminist Futures and the Capitalist Present - Catia Gregoratti and Laura Horn (Lund University & Roskilde University) 4. Development Alternatives: Old Challenges and New Hybridities in China and Latin America - Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer (University of Northern British Columbia & Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas) 5. 'Property Belongs to Allah; Capital, Get Out!' Turkey's Anti-Capitalist Muslims and the Concept of Alternatives to Capitalism - Gorkem Altinors (Bilecik University) 6. Belaboured Markets: Imagining a More Democratic Global Economic Order - Jonathon W. Moses (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) 7. Belaboured Markets: Imagining a More Democratic Global Economic Order - Jonathon W. Moses 8. Post-capitalism and Associated Reactions: Mapping Alternative Routes and Transcending Strategic Certainty - David J. Bailey (University of Birmingham) 9. Mapping Postcapitalist Futures in Dark Times - Adam Fishwick (De Montfort University) 10. The Distance Between Two Dreams: Post Neoliberalism and the Politics of Awakening - Japhy Wilson (University of Manchester) 11. Socialist Governmentality and the Problem of the Capital Strike: A Defence of Fully Automated Luxury Communism - Nicholas Kiersey (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) Afterword: Living in the Catastrophe - Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey (De Montfort University & University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis work, by one of Europea s foremost social theorists, presents a critical history of the concept of ideology. The authora s discussion ranges from the early conceptions of ideology to its current usage in the works of Barthes, Foucault, Habermas and others.Trade Review'... a useful description and analysis of some important ideological processes ...' SociologyTable of ContentsForeword. Prologue. 1. A Question (among others) on Ideology. Part I 2. What is Ideology? 3. Is Homo Ideologicus (always) Irrational? 4. Journey Round a Table. Part II 5. Outline of a Restricted Theory of Ideology. 6. Ideology, Social Position and Dispositions. 7. Ideology and Communication. 8. Science and Ideology. Part III 9. Two Case Studies. 10. Against Scepticism. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the work of Umberto Eco - one of Europe's best-known writers and intellectuals. This title covers the range of Eco's work, from his theoretical writings on semiotics to his best-selling novels. It assesses the influence of Eco's work on contemporary culture.Trade Review"It is a full, clear and authoritative account of Eco's work, with an emphasis on his development as a theorist and in particular his semiotic theory. But it includes a lively discussion of Eco's novels, which teases out their links with the theory most effectively. It shows the remarkable range and coherence of Eco as a writer, and is notably interesting on the ways in which his ideas have evolved in response to a changing cultural environment. Rich in details, cool, well-paced and incisive, it provides an excellent introduction to, as well as a sympathetic critique of, Eco the thinker." David Robey, Department of Italian Studies, Reading University "This wonderfully lucid and thorough exposition of Eco's major works will be indispensable to scholars and students alike. Michael Caesar explores the interconnectedness of the 'theoretical' and 'narrative' writings with analytical rigour, balancing appreciation with careful criticism. Caesar makes brilliant use of his own reading of the works to discuss the 'role of the reader', showing the limits as well as the possibilities in Eco's approach to texts." Robert Lumley, Director of the Centre for Italian Studies, University College, LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgement ix Note on References x Introduction 1 1 Form, Interpretation and the Open Work 6 On form and interpretation: from Croce to Pareyson 6 Art and rationality 10 The appearance of Opera aperta 15 The poetics of the open work 18 Beyond ‘openness’ 23 2 A Critical View of Culture: Mass Communications, Politics and the Avant-garde 28 The role of the avant-garde 29 Mass communications and theories of mass culture 37 Television and semiotic guerrilla war 43 Openness and structure 47 3 Introducing the Study of Signs 54 Signals and sense 55 Ambiguity, self-reflexivity and the aesthetic message 64 The critique of iconism 67 Some provisional conclusions on the aesthetic message 69 4 A Theory of Semiotics 76 From La struttura assente to A Theory of Semiotics 76 Communication, code and signification 81 Sign and sign-function 83 Sign production, iconism and the aesthetic message (again) 90 5 Semiotics Bounded and Unbound 100 The boundaries of semiotics 102 The dynamics of semiosis 111 6 Theory and Fiction 120 Readers and worlds Texts 120 7 Secrets, Paranoia and Critical Reading 145 8 Kant, the Platypus and the Horizon 162 Notes 171 Select Bibliography 184 Index 193

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Book SynopsisThis much--needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime.Trade Review"This is both a significant and intelligent contribution to the transformation of criminology by one of the most challenging feminist theorists working in the field." Carol C. Smart, University of Leeds "This thought-provoking book challenges the dominant criminological tradition from a feminist perspective. But it is more than a polemical argument about what is omitted and silenced in that tradition. It is both an intellectual history of criminology, told in an accessible way and a book of feminist jurisprudence that will be of interest to students and scholars working in that area. The book offers a new way of seeing, a new paradigm for feminist criminology, addressed to criminologists in general, inviting them to break out of the prison of their own masculine standpoints and conventional scholarship." Katherine O'Donovan, University of London "The book provides an excellent synthesis of ideas relating to the relationship between feminism and criminology ... essential ... for its detailed exploration of the intellectual relationship between feminism and criminology ... Extremely important in stimulating critical thinking about current directions and reflections in feminism and criminology." International LawTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1: A Feminist History of Criminology. . 1. The Scientific Origins of Criminology. 2. The Criminologist as Partisan. 3. Examining our Frames of Reference: Realism to Derrida. Part 2: Effecting Change. 4. Reinterpreting the Sexes (through the Crime of Rape). 5. Relocating the Sexes (through Crime Fiction). 6. An Ethical Relation. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisBruce Haddock''s lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, setting political thought in the context of the emerging institutional, cultural and economic framework of the modern world. From the colossal impact of the French and American revolutions, through reaction and constitutional consolidation, the book traces the contrasting criteria invoked to justify particular forms of political order from 1789 to the present day. Its chapters are organized around key themes such as liberty, welfare, the nation-state and totalitarianism, focusing on the response of theorists to fundamental ideological and political controversies. Major thinkers covered include Kant, Burke, Hegel, Tocqueville, Marx, Mill, Mazzini, Lenin, Schmitt, Hayek, Oakeshott and Rawls. The book also confronts challenging questions about the status of moral and political principles. Cultural and moral controversy is characteristic of our everyday experience. In recent dTrade ReviewIn recent decades the foundation of political and ethical theory have been widely questioned. In A History of Political Thought, Haddock highlights the emergence of a dilemma that faces all citizens: how we make judgments of value from embedded positions in social and cultural communities. Lucid and original, the text will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history and philosophy. -- online review posted at www.sirreadalot.orgTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Revolution. 3. Reaction. 4. The Constitutional State. 5. The Nation State. 6. Liberty. 7. Welfare. 8. Totalitarianism. 9. Politics Chastened. 10. Politics Fragmented. Suggestions for Further Reading. Notes. Index.

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Book Synopsis* A major new textbook introducing undergraduate students to the key themes and thinkers in the history of political thought from 1789 to the present day. * Adopts a thematic approach to situate developments in political thinking in historical context.Trade ReviewIn recent decades the foundation of political and ethical theory have been widely questioned. In A History of Political Thought, Haddock highlights the emergence of a dilemma that faces all citizens: how we make judgments of value from embedded positions in social and cultural communities. Lucid and original, the text will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history and philosophy. -- online review posted at www.sirreadalot.orgTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Revolution. 3. Reaction. 4. The Constitutional State. 5. The Nation State. 6. Liberty. 7. Welfare. 8. Totalitarianism. 9. Politics Chastened. 10. Politics Fragmented. Suggestions for Further Reading. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men.Trade Review"What is Intellectual History? is a powerful statement of the importance and relevance of its subject. From a history of the field's development, with a particular focus on the transformation of the history of political thought by John Pocock, Quentin Skinner and Istvan Hont, Richard Whatmore explores the possibilities as well as the limits of intellectual history, demonstrating the multiple ways in which it better enables us to understand the rich tapestry of human intellectual achievement."—John Robertson, University of Cambridge "The ideal starting-point for anyone who wants to understand what intellectual historians are doing and why it matters. In this timely and useful book, Whatmore provides a lucid and refreshingly personal introduction to both the history of Intellectual History and the ways it is practised today in the English-speaking world."—Ann Thompson, European University InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction The identity of intellectual history The history of intellectual history The method of intellectual history The practice of intellectual history The relevance of intellectual history Intellectual history present and future Conclusion Notes Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, knowledges in the plural ) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history.Trade Review"It is rare for a tour d'horizon also to be a tour de force, but this compact introduction to the new field of the history of knowledge qualifies on both counts. In less than two hundred pages, Burke maps out a new Republic of Letters, far more inclusive than the old one. Burke's vast learning is lightly worn, and the reader is rewarded with glittering aperçus and striking comparisons on almost every page."Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin"What counts as ‘knowledge’ and how can it be said to have a ‘history’? Peter Burke, the world’s foremost authority in the field, provides an eminently lucid guide to the momentous shifts that have been taking place in a gamut of intellectual disciplines. Intellectual history will never be the same again."Geoffrey Lloyd, Needham Research InstituteTable of Contents1: Knowledges and their Histories2: Concepts3: Processes4: Problems and ProspectsTimelineFurther ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book describes democracy as a contest of values. Equality and liberty, like justice and fairness, are among our ultimate ideals, but no single value is supreme.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Democracy and Value Pluralism2 What Is the People? A Conceptual History of Civil Society3 From Ancient Virtues to Modern Values: Positive Liberty and the Creative Will4 The Teleology of Modern Time: Negative Liberty and Human Nature5 Splitting the Individual: The Subatomic Values of Liberalism6 Conservatism and the Temporal Order7 Socialism and the Power of Social Unity8 Democracy as a Pattern of DisagreementReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis highly original, seminal study of Canadian theorists of technology and morality shows that Canadian thinkers were not only original and intellectually au courant but also engaging and insightful.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Perspectives on TechnologyPart 1: Approaching the Imperative2 T.C. Keefer, T.C. Haliburton, Sandford Fleming, and Alexander Graham Bell: Technology as Railways, Communication Media, and Time3 Advocates of Technical Education: Technology as KnowledgePart 2: Grappling with the Imperative4 George Stanley Brett and the Debate on Technology as War: Technology Dethroned5 William Lyon Mackenzie King and Frederick Philip Grove: Technology as Industrialism6 Stephen Leacock and Archibald Lampman: Technology as MechanizationPart 3: Philosophizing the Imperative7 Harold A. Innis and Eric Havelock: Technology as Power8 Marshall McLuhan: Making Sense(s) of Technology9 Northrop Frye and E.J. Pratt: Technology as Mythology10 George Grant and Dennis Lee: Technology as BeingConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis highly original, seminal study of Canadian theorists of technology and morality shows that Canadian thinkers were not only original and intellectually au courant but also engaging and insightful.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Perspectives on TechnologyPart 1: Approaching the Imperative2 T.C. Keefer, T.C. Haliburton, Sandford Fleming, and Alexander Graham Bell: Technology as Railways, Communication Media, and Time3 Advocates of Technical Education: Technology as KnowledgePart 2: Grappling with the Imperative4 George Stanley Brett and the Debate on Technology as War: Technology Dethroned5 William Lyon Mackenzie King and Frederick Philip Grove: Technology as Industrialism6 Stephen Leacock and Archibald Lampman: Technology as MechanizationPart 3: Philosophizing the Imperative7 Harold A. Innis and Eric Havelock: Technology as Power8 Marshall McLuhan: Making Sense(s) of Technology9 Northrop Frye and E.J. Pratt: Technology as Mythology10 George Grant and Dennis Lee: Technology as BeingConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisGeorge Steiner is a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. In this book, a group of eminent American and European critics offer an assessment of Steiner's work.Trade ReviewThe collection is a model of editorial acuity, the essays persuasive and eloquent, ensuring that by the end almost every aspect of the Steiner oeuvre has been mentioned, if not discussed. -- Dan Gunn Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisProviding a history of economic theory, this book shows how the analytical tools used by economists have evolved from the 18th century to the present, and offers a comprehensive account of modern mainstream economics.Trade ReviewWell organized. Its chapters on monetary topics and marginalist writers are balanced and informative. Many economists neglected in other histories are here given their due... As a convenient desk reference, this book has much to offer. Journal of Economic History

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Book SynopsisInnovative and often controversial, Barrett's study ranges over the entire scope of anthropological theory. It provides a fresh interpretation of the history of theory and mounts an alternative perspective, built around dialectics, that is eminently suitable to post-colonial anthropology.He argues that anthropological theory has failed to be cumulative. It has been characterized by oscillation and repetition – theoretical orientations have appeared and disappeared, only to be discovered once again. Addressing numerous conceptual contradictions which have never been resolved, he introduces novel concepts such as salvage theory and backward theory, and argues that in many respects anthropological theory resembles the structuralists interpretation of myth.Social life, he asserts, is inherently contradictory, although concealed by numerous mechanisms, most of which reinforce the status quo. Attacking the illusion of simplicity which has dominated positivistic a

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Book SynopsisNella Cotrupi's Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process sheds a new conceptual light on Frye, successfully bringing him back into the central ring of contemporary critical thought. Challenging the often dismissive view of Frye's work as closed and outdated, Dr. Cotrupi explores the implications of his proposition that the history of criticism may be seen as having two main approaches — literature as "product" and literature as "process." In focusing on Frye's exploration of the process tradition Cotrupi sheds light on the agenda that Frye established for himself, when he noted at the end of Anatomy of Criticism that the reconciliatory task of criticism was to "reforge the broken link between creation and knowledge, art and science, myth and concept."Dr. Cotrupi recontextualizes Frye's thought and shows us how Frye continues to be, not only relevant, but central to a number of the key concerns in the contemporary critical scene. Re-examining

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Book SynopsisThe definition of fanatics as people who seek to destroy civil society-formulated by German Protestant Reformers in the 16th century-is traced and studied through the long cycles of Western political thought.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the fanatic's truth; 1. Civil society and fanaticism: conjoined histories; 2. Civil society and the city of God; 3. Sword against flail; 4. The painter of the two cities; 5. The mouth of God; 6. The voice of the prophets; 7. The absolute bourgeois; 8. The citizen as Bourgeois; 9. Civil society and civil war; 10. Civil society and the law-governed state; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the "Old Regime."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Contributors; Declaration on the rights of man and of the citizen; Introduction Dale Van Kley; Part I. Context: 1. Old regime origins of democratic liberty David D. Bien; 2. From the lessons of French history to truths for all times and all people: the historical origins of an anti-historical declaration Dale Van Kley; 3. Betwixt cattle and men: Jews, blacks, and women, and the declaration of the rights of man Shanti Marie Singham; 4. The idea of a declaration of rights Keith Michael Baker; Part II. Text: 5. National sovereignty and the general will: the political program of the declaration of rights J. K. Wright; 6. Safeguarding the rights of the accused: lawyers and political trials in France, 1716-1789 David A. Bell; 7. Religious toleration and freedom of expression Raymond Birn; 8. Property, sovereignty, the declaration of the rights of man, and the tradition of French jurisprudence Thomas E. Kaiser; Glossary; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of twelve essays focuses on two interrelated issues: first, it addresses the historical and cultural determinants that have given rise to what frequently has been described as the French exception; second, the contributors assess the exhaustion of this tradition in recent years.Trade Review“It is the singular virtue of this superb collection that it refuses to dismiss the terms ‘terror’ and ‘consensus’ as simple rhetorical posturing, using them instead to dig deep into the debates that structure the current Franco-American critical scene.” —Peter Starr, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction Jean-Joseph Goux and Philip R. Wood 1. Parameters of an ongoing crisis Barbara Cassin 2. Terror on the run Jean-Fancois Lyotard 3. Subversion and consensus: proletarians, women, artists Jean-Joseph Goux 4. Situations of current French thought: the end of 'The French Exception' Marc Auge; 5. The terror of consensus Francoise Gaillard 6. Democracy and totalitarianism in contemporary French thought: neoliberalism, the Heidegger scandal and ethics in post-structuralism Philip R. Wood 7. Postmodernity and the politics of multiculturalism: the Lyotard-Habermas debate over social theory Mark Poster 8. Performative universalism and cultural diversity: French thought and American contexts Francoise Lionnet 9. Mission and limits of the Enlightenment Jean-Marie Apostolide;s 10. The intellectual sublime: Zola as archetype of a cultural myth Susan Rubin Suleiman 11. Is the West the universal model for humanity? The Baruya of New Guinea between change and decay Maurice Godelier Reference matter Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisThe book is the English edition of a collection of essays by Jacob Taubes, one of the most creative and idiosyncratic philosophers of religion in Germany of the second half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"[From Cult to Culture] include[s] elaborate contemplations about topics such as Jewish mysticism and Judeo-Christian messianism, Christian theology in both ancient and modern times, 'notes on Surrealism,' and relevant work on the relationship between culture and ideology, 'the current state of Polytheism,' or religion and psychoanalysis. The editors of the collection, which is organized thematically, are a group of loyal disciples and peers, some of whom later organized the Paul lectures. The essays demonstrate a powerful far-reaching analysis that Charlotte Fonrobert—who edited the English edition together with Amir Engel—characterizes as 'a battle against complacency and indifference'."—Nitzan Lebovic, H-Judaic"This collection of essays is an important introduction to the work of a writer and thinker who isn't widely discussed today . . . It belongs on the shelves of university and seminary libraries."—Morton J. Merowitz, AJL

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Book SynopsisBisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity.-James Hankins, Harvard UniversityTrade Review"Creating East and West is carefully researched and develops a nuanced and subtle argument that portrays the complexity and variability of the West's intellectual response to the Ottoman challenge. It also underscores the importance of this period for the evolution of concepts such as East and West, Europe and Asia, and suggests how these Renaissance views influenced early modern attitudes, and indeed may still inform the modern discourse on Islam and the West." * Renaissance Quarterly *"A fruitful, engaging exploration of a formative moment in Western culture, a moment that simultaneously gave rise to the vilified image of "the Turk" and witnessed the self-fashioning of European modernity." * Bulletin of the Royal Institute For Inter-Faith Studies *"A beautifully written and fascinating study that evokes an aspect of Renaissance Italian humanist writings long neglected by historians: the humanist responses to the perceived, and often real, threat of the Ottoman Turks (and Islam generally) to Europe in the wake of the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453." * Comitatus *"Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity." * James Hankins, Harvard University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Crusade and Charlemagne: Medieval Influences Chapter 2. The New Barbarian: Redefining the Turks in Classical Terms Chapter 3. Straddling East and west: Byzantium and Greek Refugees Chapter 4. Religious Influences and Interpretations Epilogue: The Renaissance Legacy Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Beggar Thy Neighbor starts with Marcus Junius Brutus, a predatory lender infamous for his role in the assassination of Julius Caesar, ends with the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, and provides a lively social-cum-cultural history of debt for the intervening two millennia." * Journal of Economic History *"Geisst tackles this double-edged, troublesome topic not from a personal level-you won't find 10 tips to reduce personal debt here-but from a historical and practical level. He starts from before banks even existed, with a debate that continues today over interest rate ceilings, and it's evident that we are indebted to religious institutions, both Catholic and Jewish, for the foundational practices of money handling, borrowing, loaning, and repaying." * Publishers Weekly *"A useful introduction to the Christian and Muslim disdain for usury and raises important questions about the prevalence of debt in our economy. Geisst proves that legal, moral, and economic debates over usury and debt are here to stay." * The Historian *"Fascinating and comprehensive. . . . The broad historic sweep that [Geisst] brings to this study impresses." * EH.Net *"A compelling book not only for history buffs but also for financial market participants who will find that events today have a long history leading up to our current travails." * Henry Kaufman, author of On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir *"Charles R. Geisst takes us on a splendid tour of the law of usury from ancient times to the present. Along the way one encounters Cicero, Charlemagne, Shakespeare, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Michael Milken and many others in this engaging yet critical account of what may well be the oldest and most ubiquitous form of economic regulation. Highly recommended both for the lay reader interested in economic affairs and the academic specialist in money and banking." * Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University *"An engaging, comprehensive history of the concept of interest and usury." * Robert Wright, Augustana College, South Dakota *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Saints and Sinners Chapter 2. Embracing Shylock Chapter 3. Protestants, War, and Capitalism Chapter 4. The Great Experiment Chapter 5. The New Debt Revolution Chapter 6. Something Old, Something New Chapter 7. Islam, Interest, and Microlending Chapter 8. The Consumer Debt Revolution Appendix. Early Interest Rate Tables and Calculations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen''s guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into the nature of political legitimacy and the relationship between authority and its social context.This volume provides a selection of texts that describes the language, conceptual vocabulary, and issues at stake in Florentine political culture at key moments in its development during the Renaissance. Rather than presenting Renaissance political thought as a static set of arguments, Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli instead illustrates the degree to which political thought in the Italian City revolved around a common cluster of topics that were continually modified and revised—and the way those common topics could beTrade Review"Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick, have produced an excellent collection that brings together Florentine political writings from the Renaissance of importance to Florence and beyond...The Introduction and selections in this volume increase our understanding of Florence and politics." * Renaissance and Reformation *"With its masterful introductions and accessible translations, Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli will serve as the standard reference for scholars and teachers of Renaissance Italy and premodern political thought." * Nicholas Scott Baker, Macquarie University *Table of ContentsIntroduction —Mark Jurdjevic PART I. ON MONARCHY AND TYRANNY Chapter 1. Petrarch How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State (1373) Chapter 2. Coluccio Salutati On the Tyrant(1400) Chapter 3. Bartolus of Sassoferrato On Tyranny (c. 1355) PART II. ON CIVIC REPUBLICANISM Chapter 4. Leonardo Bruni Panegyric to the City of Florence (c. 1402) Oration for the Funeral of Nanni Strozzi (1428) On the Florentine Constitution (1439) Chapter 5. Poggio Bracciolini In Praise of the Venetian Government (1459) Chapter 6. Alamanno Rinuccini Liberty (1479) Chapter 7. Girolamo Savonarola Treatise on the Constitution and Government of the City of Florence (1498) PART III. ON FLORENCE BETWEEN REPUBLIC AND PRINCIPATE Chapter 8. Paolo Vettori Memorandum to Cardinal de' Medici About the Affairs of Florence (1512) Chapter 9. Niccolò Machiavelli Memorandum to the Newly Restored Medici (1512) Discursus on Florentine Matters After the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici the Younger (1520) Minutes of a Provision for the Reform of the Florentine Government (1522) Memorandum to Cardinal Giulio on the Reform of the State of Florence (1522) Summary of the Affairs of the City of Lucca (1520) Chapter 10. Francesco Guicciardini On the Method of Electing Offices in the Great Council (1512) On the Mode of Reordering the Popular Government (1512) The Government of Florence after the Medici Restoration (1513) On the Mode of Securing the State of the House of Medici (1516) Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of original essays, leading Asian studies scholars take a new look at the way the Chinese conceived of India in their literature, art, and religious thought in the premodern era.Trade Review"The scholarship in these substantial and insightful essays is first rate. This volume is the first to take a broad approach to the relationship between India and China in the premodern era from the perspective of cultural imagination and to provide case studies as examples of how further work can proceed." * Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina at Greensboro *

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Book SynopsisAs early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism.Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-EurTrade Review"In its originality as a thesis, in its elegance of phrasing and conception, and in the erudition it embodies, Schmidt's work serves as a profound investigation of its subject matter. . . . Anyone who wants to understand how our early modern forebears saw the world may expect to find pleasure and instruction herein." * Times Higher Education Supplement *"[E]legantly written and beautifully produced . . . Inventing Exoticism is an inventive and perceptive book. It lucidly combines detailed analysis of specific texts and objects with discussion of larger themes invaluable for any reader interested in early modern European identities and perceptions. Crucially too, with his thorough accounts of particular objects and their wider intellectual implications, Schmidt provides an important historiographical service in showing how concepts and materiality can intersect." * Journal of Global History *"Much like the books it studies, Inventing Exoticism is beautifully produced . . . it is also extremely well-written . . . Schmidt takes his readers on an impressive tour de force through seven decades of (mostly Dutch-made) exotic iconography as it appeared in books, atlases, paintings, porcelain, tapestries, cabinets, and other media. Schmidt's effortless interweaving of book history, art history, and the history of global encounters will enhance the book's wide appeal." * Itinerario *"Benjamin Schmidt has written a remarkable and remarkably innovative account of a remarkable phenomenon. Inventing Exoticism is a very substantial contribution to the study of the cultural history of early modern perceptions of the non-European world, to the history of the book, and to the history of the economics and the sociology of the flow of information. It shows for the first time just how instrumental the concern with the exotic was in the creation of the modern image of Europe and of Europe's place in an increasingly global world." * Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles *"A fascinating and brilliantly resourceful study of early modern Dutch geography. In energetic and readable prose, Inventing Exoticism marshals a wealth of carefully indexed details around big picture questions about how we see other regions and peoples." * Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction. On the Invention of Exoticism and the Invention of Europe Chapter 1. Printing the World: Processed Books and Exotic Stereotypes Chapter 2. Seeing the World: Visuality and Exoticism Chapter 3. Exotic Bodies: Sex and Violence Abroad Chapter 4. Exotic Pleasures: Geography, Material Arts, and the "Agreeable" World Epilogue. From Promiscuous Assemblage to Order and Method: Europe and Its Exotic Worlds Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt''s notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it.Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy''s new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, BaldassTrade Review"An elegant, erudite, and polemical book that most assuredly makes an important contribution to the literature on Renaissance individuality and male identity." * James R. Farr, Purdue University *"Douglas Biow offers a spirited and refreshing account of the ways Renaissance men carved out space for individuality over against the norms of their professions and communities." * John Jeffries Martin, Duke University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction ART I. PROFESSIONALISM Chapter 1. Professionally Speaking: The Value of Ars and Arte in Renaissance Italy—Reflections on the Historical Reach of Techne Chapter 2. Reflections on Professions and Humanism in Renaissance Italy and the Humanities Today PART II. MAVERICKS Chapter 3. Constructing a Maverick Physician in Print: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Leonardo Fioravanti's Writings Chapter 4. Visualizing Cleanliness, Visualizing Washerwomen in Venice and Renaissance Italy: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Jacopo Tintoretto's Jews in the Desert PART III. BEARDS Chapter 5. Facing the Day: Reflections on a Sudden Change in Fashion and the Magisterial Beard Chapter 6. Manly Matters: Reflections on Giordano Bruno's Candelaio and the Theatrical and Social Function of Beards in Sixteenth-Century Italy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable individuals whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures-Richard Burton, T. E. Lawrence, Louis Massignon, Chinua Achebe, and Orhan Pamuk-without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they were born, all devoted themselves to exploring a second cultural identity as an intrinsic part of their first.Trade Review"Jerrold Seigel, one of our most astute commentators on the Western self, now explores the lives and writings of five remarkable men moving between modern cultural worlds. From Richard Burton to Orhan Pamuk, Seigel leads us on a fascinating journey where religion, eros, politics, and violence are all brought into play across regimes of colonial conflict. An absorbing examination of loss and discovery, Between Cultures gives us powerful new insights into what belonging can mean in our entangled universe." * Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto *"Jerrold Seigel is one of the greatest practitioners of intellectual history in our time-and this account of five exemplary individuals, who produced great works while inhabiting two different cultures simultaneously, speaks to all of his strengths: his psychological insight, combined with a deep knowledge of the social sciences as well as world history; his philosophical sophistication, allied with an anthropologist's interest in all that initially seems alien; and his profound compassion for the 'human, all too human,' which is evident on every page of this exemplary study." * James Miller, author of Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche and The Passion of Michel Foucault *"Between Cultures is an engaging, insightful, and highly original study. The variety of individuals and cultures that Seigel examines makes this a daring and challenging project, and he pulls it off with considerable skill and conviction." * Dane Kennedy, George Washington University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Masquerade, Engagement, and Skepticism: Richard Burton Chapter 2. Commitment and Loss: T. E. Lawrence Chapter 3. The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon Chapter 4. Independence and Ambivalence: Chinua Achebe and Two African Contemporaries Chapter 5. Reflection, Mystery, and Violence: Orhan Pamuk Conclusion. Distance and Belonging Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe Labor of the Mind plumbs the Enlightenment's social and cultural logic of conceiving the mind as manly; considers the textual representations of the manly mind; and examines the ways in which it was subverted or at least subtly questioned.Trade Review"This excellent new book all but overflows with unusually erudite and insightful analysis of an impressive array of interesting and important figures, notably Poullain de la Barre, Nicolas Malebranche, the marquise de Lambert, the earl of Shaftesbury, David Hume, Antoine-Léonard Thomas, Suzanne Necker, Denis Diderot, and Louise d'Épinay . . . The Labor of the Mind will take its place as an indispensable work of seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuryWestern European intellectual history." * Journal of Modern History *"A thoughtful historicist study of how men and a few women in seventeenth and eighteenth-century France, England, and Scotland construed the relationship between intelligence, gender, and work, The Labor of the Mind is a welcome example of scholarship that brings a gender-studies perspective to the often male-centric field of intellectual history . . . La Vopa's book makes a major contribution to the ongoing debate in eighteenth-century French studies surrounding the relative roles of gender, social status, and intellectual seriousness in salon culture." * Modern Philology *"[A]n impressive tour de force - the result of many years of research and reflection . . . [A] rich, subtle, and refined work, full of deep historical wisdom but devoid of any excessive display of erudition; sophisticated and precise in its analysis, clear and elegant in its writing; utterly readable and enjoyable. It is a book from which we historians of every branch of the discipline will learn precious lessons - about the past and about our craft." * Early Modern Women *"The Labor of the Mind is the most subtle and innovative study of Enlightenment thought in decades. Taking conversations rather than printed texts as his starting point, and reaching back deeply into the seventeenth century, Anthony J. La Vopa shows how male-female friendships within an aristocratic culture produced both intellectual dynamism and anxieties about the feminization of the mind. La Vopa interweaves the ideas and conversational practices of such prominent writers as David Hume and Denis Diderot with those of lesser-known figures such as Poullain de la Barre and Suzanne Necker, offering fascinating insights about these thinkers as both human beings and as makers of our modern understandings of femininity and manliness." * Suzanne Marchard, Louisiana State University *"The Labor of the Mind is a terrific book and a magisterial contribution to Enlightenment studies, to intellectual history, and especially to gender studies. Labor, as the practice of intellectual work, and gender serve as two prongs of incisive analysis running through the book. By grounding texts and ideas in the lives and experiences of the men and women who wrote them, Anthony J. La Vopa has breathed new life into the intellectual history of the eighteenth century." * Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles *Table of ContentsA Note on Translations Introduction Chapter 1. The Social Aesthetic of Play in Seventeenth-Century France —Aissance and Labor —The Intelligence of Women Chapter 2. Poullain de la Barre: Feminism, Radical and Polite —Conversion —The Mind Has No Sex —Cartesianism for Ladies Chapter 3. Malebranche and the Bel Esprit —Montaigne's Sin of Style —The Cartesian Augustinian —Original Sin and the Labor of Attention —The Bel Esprit —The Author Despite Himself Chapter 4. Love, Gallantry, and Friendship —The Loves and Friendships of Saint-Évremond —The Dissent of Mme de Lambert Chapter 5. Shaftesbury's Quest for Fraternity —The Turn to Stoicism —The French Menace —Friendship — Critics, Markets, and Labor —The Moralists Chapter 6. The Labors of David Hume —Writing the Treatise —The Essayist —The Vicissitudes of Taste —The Philosopher and the Countess Chapter 7. Genius and the Social: Antoine-Léonard Thomas and Suzanne Curchod Necker —Friends —Amphibians —The Labor of Genius —Gallantry Corrupted Chapter 8. Minds Not Meeting: Denis Diderot and Louise d'Épinay —Diderot's Paternal Voice —Diderot's Clinical Voice —Mme d'Épinay's Feminism Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fine study . . . History after Hitler is an erudite story of two entwined processes: how Americans after 1945 gradually found a voice in the field of German history and, more significantly, how West Germans were exposed to what they often saw as the more open academic culture of the United States." * Central European History *"Philipp Stelzel has written an immensely useful book . . . a rich compendium of some of the main figures and key issues at stake in writing the history of modern Germany after Nazism . . . It is exceptionally well structured and eminently readable, and it will be required reading in many classes on modern German historiography, especially at English-speaking universities. Quite a few historians featured in this book acted as transatlantic mediators; the same may now also be said of the author himself." * American Historical Review *"With knowledge and insight, Philipp Stelzel brings together two stories that are usually told separately-the writing of German history in the United States and in the Federal Republic of Germany-and shows their deep interconnections in the postwar years. In History After Hitler we come to see the emergence of a genuine transatlantic community of scholars and its powerful impact on the writing of history." * Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University *"Making use of hitherto untapped archival materials, History After Hitler presents an intriguing perspective on the transformation of 'German history' as a field after 1945, examining the personal and intellectual connections of German historians with America. This is a substantial, thoughtful, and well-balanced contribution to the history of historiography." * Andreas Daum, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. German History in the Federal Republic Chapter 2. German History in the United States Chapter 3. Encountering America Chapter 4. Transforming the West German Historical Profession Chapter 5. In Defense of Intellectual Hegemony Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIt is rare for a thinker of Charles Péguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship. The neglect may be in part because so much about Péguy is contestable and paradoxical. He strongly opposed the modern historicist drive to reduce writers to their times, yet he was very much a product of philosophical currents swirling through French intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a passionate Dreyfusard who converted to Catholicism but was a consistent anticlerical. He was a socialist and an anti-Marxist, and at once a poet, journalist, and philosopher. Péguy (1873-1914) rose from a modest childhood in provincial France to a position of remarkable prominence in European intellectual life. Before his death in battle in World War I, he founded his own journal in order to publish what he thought most honestly, and urgently, needed to be said about politics, history, philosophy, literature, art, and religion. His writing and life weTrade Review"[D]ensely argued, empathetic . . . Matthew Maguire deftly addresses such subjects as Péguy's socialism, which had nothing to do with Karl Marx, but derived from an earlier Gallic source, Charles Fourier, who prophesised a pleasure-based society where libido was a motivating element in work and societal interactions." * Catholic Herald *"[A]n excellent, thorough, engaging critical biography . . . In Carnal Spirit,, Matthew Maguire maps Péguy's complex intellectual world in fin-de-siècle Paris . . . We need, Maguire calls out from the text, a thinker like Péguy who 'upholds the legitimacy of embodied and particular lives, individual and communal, as well as the demands of universal justice and the dignity of all human beings.' And he is right." * French History *"Matthew W. Maguire's mastery of Charles Péguy's voluminous writings is impressive. His book will bring certain contemporary questions into sharp relief, not least the new forms of totalization and control whose early versions Péguy detected at the turn of the twentieth century." * Annette Aronowicz, author of Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Péguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Modernity, Antimodernity, and Beyond Chapter 2. His Youth Chapter 3. An Answer to the Question: What Is Modernity? Chapter 4. The Revolution of Critique Chapter 5. Revolutions of the Body and Work Chapter 6. Continuity and Revolution: War and Honor Chapter 7. Universal Particulars, Particular Universalities Chapter 8. Mysticism and Politics Chapter 9. The Style of Infinite Reality Chapter 10. The Christian Revolution Chapter 11. Despair and Exaltation Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBetween 1548 and 1773 the Jesuits made sixteen attempts, from Turin in the north to Messina in Sicily, to found new universities or to become professors in existing universities. Paul Grendler tells a new story based on years of research. Anyone interested in the volatile mix of universities, religion, and politics will find this book fascinating and instructive.Trade Review“The fruit of impressive research in Italian archives and of an extensive reading of international scholarship on the topic. Grendler has written a book which deals with this crucial topic for the history of education, for the history of culture in early modern Italy, and for the history of the Society of Jesus.” —Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University

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Book Synopsis2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT StudiesRichard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics are now engaged. While at its most elemental Once You Go Black is an homage to these thinkers, it is at the same time a reconsideration of black Americans as agents, and not simply products, of history. Reid-Pharr contends that our current notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor have they simply been forced onto the black community. Instead, he argues, black American intellectuals have actively chosen the identity schemes that seem to us so natural today.Turning first to the late and relatively obscure novels of Wright, Ellison, and Baldwin, Reid-Pharr suggests that each of these authors rejects the idea of the black as innocent. Instead they iTrade ReviewIn bold and beautifully crafted close readings, Reid-Pharr challenges many of the structuring absences that have shaped the fields of African-American literary studies, queer studies, and American Studies. His provocative arguments about sexuality, race, and masculinity are unsettling, in the best sense of that word. -- Siobhan B. Somerville,University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignProvocatively and often brilliantly, this book disturbs some of our most fundamental thinking about the role of choice, literary influence, collective identity, and the racial erotic in African American letters. Reid-Pharr engages these questionssometimes with the subtler edge of his wit and other times with the sharpness of cutting-edge theorybut always with an eye to re-orienting us as readers toward what it means to inhabit, or refuse, the skin of identity. -- Marlon Ross,author of Manning the RaceA deeply local and deeply ethical book and Reid-Pharr is willing to risk the misunderstanding in order to insist on the importance of black political agency. There is a refreshing honesty in the way Reid-Pharr directs his comments toward readers. * GC Advocate *Once You Go Black sustains head-on, constant, and enormously crucial, intellectual challenges to readers. These challenges do not simply require us to rethink a wealth of commonly accepted assumptions but demand that we re-conceptualize how we think about some basic constructs of American intellectual history. * Lambda Book Report *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Existential Negro Going Black1 The Funny Father's Luck 2 Ralph Ellison's Blues 3 Alas Poor Jimmy Coming Back?4 Saint Huey 5 Queer Sweetback Conclusion: Deviant Desiring Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisMarine biologist Edward F. Ricketts was a close friend of John Steinbeck, but he was also central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century. This text contains 134 letters that document the range of his interests and accomplishments in the last 12 years of his life.

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Book SynopsisIntellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture. This title discusses how critics have conceived of the intellectual's role in a pluralised society, weighing intellectual authority against public democracy, universal against particularistic standards, and criticism against the respect of popular movements.Trade Review“Anxious Intellects introduces fresh material and a generally new tone into the discussion of the quarrels now familiarly known as the culture wars. Readers will welcome its efforts to disabuse parties on both sides of some of their more comforting fantasies about intellectual labor and to move the debate about intellectuals and politics onto more fruitful terrain.”—Ellen Rooney, Brown University“Anxious Intellects is a state-of-the-art assessment of the function of intellectuals at the turn of the century. Michael’s astute and generous commentary on recent developments in this long tradition is especially relevant, coming at a time when human intelligence is becoming the staple industrial unit of the new economy.”—Andrew Ross, New York University“Seeking ‘an embattled middle ground,’ Michael offers sustained and always astute commentary on the mixed results of the intellectual’s status in the United States today.”—Chris Newfield, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Fundamental Confusion Part One: Cultural Authority, Enlightenment Traditions, and Professional Anxiety 1. Publicity: Black Intellectuals as Inorganic Rerpresentatives 2. Pedagogy: Enlightened Instruction as Oppressive Discipline 3. Community: Pragmatism as a Profession of Anxiety 4. Culture: Western Traditions and Intellectual Treason Part Two: Projected Identities, Universal Illusions, and Democratic Discourse 5. The Critic: Cultural Studies and Adorno’s Ghost 6. The Scientist: Disembodied Intellect and Popular Utopias 7. The Professional: Science Wars and Interdisciplinary Studies Conclusion: Tattered Maps Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChinese cultural and intellectual politics waned after the Tiananmen Square incident. This volume explores their revitalisation in the 1990s.Table of ContentsPreface vii 1. The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field: A Critical Overview / Xudong Zhang 1 Part I. Against the Neoliberal Dogma: Four Arguments from China 2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China in the 1990s / Gan Yang 79 3. Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights Reform in China / Zhiyuan Chi 103 4. The Changing Role of Government in China / Shaoguang Wang 123 5. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity / Wang Hui 161 Post-Tiananmen Art 199 Part II. In the Global Context 6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the U.S.A. / Rey Chow 211 7. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and the Opium War (1997) / Rebecca E. Karl 229 8. Mao to the Market / Peter Hitchcock 263 9. Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s? / Louisa Schein 285 10. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China / Xudong Zhang 315 11. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization, and Rights / Michael Dutton 349 Appendix. In the Tiger's Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters the Market Economy in Post-Mao China / Harry D. Harootunian 371 Contributors 383 Index 385

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Book SynopsisWritten in the 1950s, Hays' work provides a history of the conservation movement's origins and provides a context for contemporary environmental problems and possible solutions. It shows how conservation came about as a an attempt by scientists to apply their skills to the use of natural resources.

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Book SynopsisAn overview of contemporary environmental affairs, from 1940s to the present—with an emphasis on nature in an urbanized society, land developments, environmental technology, the structure of environmental politics, environmental opposition, and the results of environmental policy.

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