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Book SynopsisThis book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. The conservative movement that reached out to Strauss and his legacy was extremely fluid and lacked a self-confident leadership. Conservative activists and journalists felt a desperate need for academic acceptability, which they thought Strauss and his disciples would furnish. They also became deeply concerned with the problem of 'value relativism', which self-described conservatives thought Strauss had effectively addressed. But until recently, neither Strauss nor his disciples have considered themselves to be 'conservatives'. Contrary to another misconception, Straussians have never wished to convert Americans to ancient political ideals and practices, except in a very selective rhetorical fashion. Strauss and his disciples have been avid champions of American modernity, and 'timeless' values as interpreted by Strauss and hiTrade Review'Paul Gottfried's book shows evidence of a lifetime of more intimate engagement with Straussians. He is respectful of the master, formed in 'a richer cultural world than his followers - indeed a Teutonic one that most of his prominent students detested'. Gottfried is clearly disappointed in Strauss's 'epigones', who are happy to refute their poorly informed but respectable critics on the Left but who refuse to engage in serious debate with their learned and perceptive critics on the Right.' Mark Shiffman, Modern Age'I've always wanted to read a critique of Strauss - and more particularly, of Straussianism - which didn't devolve into leftist hyperbole or paranoia. This is the first I've read. Gottfried's critique is really from the right - against Strauss's postmodern reading of texts … against the abolition of history as well as historicism, against the reclusiveness and defensiveness of the Straussian enclave, and against their fixation with Western weakness in which the world is forever 1938. He persuaded me that the core of Straussianism is political, not philosophical - and a true competitor to what I would call conservatism, properly understood. None of this takes away from the truly remarkable scholarship that Strauss and Straussians have given us, or their useful antidote to the idea that all our core debates about the world have been resolved. But it helps reveal the deeply un-conservative and profoundly radical nature of neoconservatism, and its mania for imperialism and Israel.' Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish'[The only book that] specifically offers a right-wing critique of this German-Jewish émigré professor who is so often assumed to be a right-winger himself … Paul Gottfried's book… is sufficiently magnanimous that it may lead readers to a new appreciation for Strauss.' Daniel McCarthy, The University BookmanTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. A significant life; 3. Constructing a methodology; 4. The method under assault; 5. Politics as practice; 6. Political theory as political practice; 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. In a series of scholarly but accessible essays, every major theme in nineteenth-century political thought is covered, including political economy, religion, democratic radicalism, nationalism, socialism and feminism. The volume also includes studies of major figures, including Hegel, Mill, Bentham and Marx, and biographical notes on every significant thinker in the period. Of interest to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels, this volume explores seismic changes in the languages and expectations of politics accompanying political revolution, industrialisation and imperial expansTable of ContentsEditors' introduction; Part I. Political Thought after the French Revolution: 1. Counter-revolutionary thought Bee Wilson; 2. Romanticism and political thought in the early nineteenth century John Morrow; 3. On the principle of nationality John Breuilly; 4. Hegel and Hegelianism Frederick C. Beiser; 5. Historians and lawyers Donald R. Kelley; 6. Social science from the Revolution to Positivism Cheryl B. Welch; 7. Radicalism, Republicanism and Revolutionism, from the principles of '89 to the origins of modern terrorism Gregory Claeys and Christine Lattek; Part II. Modern Liberty and its Defenders: 8. From Jeremy Bentham's radical philosophy to J. S. Mill's philosophic radicalism Frederick Rosen; 9. John Stuart Mill, mid-Victorian Ross Harrison; 10. 'Woman question' and the origins of feminism Lucy Delap; 11. Constitutional Liberalism in France: from Benjamin Constant to Alexis de Tocqueville Jeremy Jennings; 12. American political thought from Jeffersonian Republicanism to Progressivism James P. Young; 13. German Liberalism in the nineteenth century Wolfgang J. Mommsen; 14. Visions of stateless society K. Steven Vincent; Part III. Modern Liberty and its Critics: 15. Aesthetics and politics Douglas Moggach; 16. Non-Marxian socialism 1815–1914 Gregory Claeys; 17. The young Hegelians, Marx and Engels Gareth Stedman Jones; Part IV. Secularity, Reform and Modernity: 18. Church and state: the problem of authority John E. Toews; 19. The politics of nature: science and religion in the age of Darwin Daniel Pick; 20. Conservative political thought from the revolutions of 1848 until the fin de siècle Lawrence Goldman; 21. Modern liberty redefined James Thompson; 22. Political economy Emma Rothschild; 23. German socialism and social democracy 1860–1900 Vernon L. Lidtke; 24. Russian political thought of the nineteenth century Andrezj Walicki; 25. European political thought and the wider world during the nineteenth century Christopher Bayly; 26. Empire and imperialism Duncan Bell; Epilogue: French Revolution to fin de siècle: political thought in retrospect and prospect, 1800 to 1914 Jose F. Harris.

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Book SynopsisThomas Carlyle (17951881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. His introduction of German literature and philosophy into Victorian society profoundly influenced later philosophical and literary ideas. Volume 4 of this 1896 edition of his works contains the third volume of The French Revolution.Table of ContentsBook I. September: 1. The improvised commune; 2. Danton; 3. Dumouriez; 4. September in Paris; 5. A trilogy; 6. The circular; 7. September in Argonne; 8. Exeunt; Book II. Regicide: 1. The deliberative; 2. The executive; 3. Discrowned; 4. The loser pays; 5. Stretching of formulas; 6. At the bar; 7. The three votings; 8. Place de la Revolution; Book III. The Girondins: 1. Cause and effect; 2. Culottic and sansculottic; 3. Growing shrill; 4. Fatherland in danger; 5. Sanculottism accoutred; 6. The traitor; 7. In fight; 8. In death-grips; 9. Extinct; Book IV. Terror: 1. Charlotte Corday; 2. In civil war; 3. Retreat of the eleven; 4. O nature; 5. Sword of sharpness; 6. Risen against tyrants; 7. Marie-Antoinette; 8. The twenty-two; Book V. Terror the Order of the Day: 1. Rushing down; 2. Death; 3. Destruction; 4. Carmagnole complete; 5. Like a thunder-cloud; 6. Do thy duty; 7. Flame-picture; Book VI. Thermidor: 1. The gods are athirst; 2. Danton, no weakness; 3. The tumbrils; 4. Mumbo-Jumbo; 5. The prisons; 6. To finish the terror; 7. Go down to; Book VII. Vendemiaire: 1. Decadent; 2. La Cabarus; 3. Quiberon; 4. Lion not dead; 5. Lion sprawling its last; 6. Grilled herrings; 7. The whiff of grapeshot; 8. Finis; Chronological summary; Index.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Ennemoser (1787–1854) was an Tyrolean doctor, who was a forerunner of Freud in his belief in the connection between the mind and physical health: his interest in psychology led to investigations into the paranormal. This English translation of his 1844 work was published in 1854.Table of ContentsEditor's preface M. H. Howitt; Author's preface; 1. Of magic and its branches in general; 2. Theoretical views on magic among the ancients; 3. Magnetism among the ancient nations, especially the Orientals, Egyptians, and Israelites; Index.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Ennemoser (17871854) was an Tyrolean doctor, who was a forerunner of Freud in his belief in the connection between the mind and physical health: his interest in psychology led to investigations into the paranormal. This English translation of his 1844 work was published in 1854.Table of Contents4. Of magic in mythology; 5. The magic of the Germans; 6. Mystic doctrines, and endeavours after a philosophical elucidation of the magic of the middle ages; Appendix: Apparitions; Haunted houses; Dreams; Second sight; Trance and somnambulism; Ecstasy; Prediction; Divination; Witchcraft; Vampires; Amulets and charms; Narcotics; Fairies; Spiritual manifestations.

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Book SynopsisThis encyclopedia of the occult sciences, reissued here in its 1845 edition, was extraordinarily popular in nineteenth-century France. It lists superstitions and 'infernal beings, persons, books, facts, and things' ranging from Russia to the indigenous cultures of the Andes, and claims thereby to help refute error and banish superstition.Table of ContentsDictionnaire; Appendix.

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Book SynopsisSpencer Timothy Hall (18121885) was a printer and writer who became a mesmerist. This book, first published in 1845, describes Hall's involvement with mesmerism and several medical cases including that of Harriet Martineau. It provides valuable insights into the practice and theory of mesmerism in the early Victorian period.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The author witnesses M. La Fontaine's experiments at Sheffield; 2. The author tries experiments; 3. Further apparent corrobations of phrenology; 4. Influence of the author's experience upon his own mind; 5. Public lectures, lecturers, and their traducers; 6. Mesmeric results not to be confounded with miracles. Illustrative cases; 7. Case of Miss Harriet Martineau; 8. Experiments upon, or affecting the author; 9. Supersentient phenomena; 10. Ultimate tendencies of mesmerism.

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Book SynopsisWritten by the French Benedictine Antoine Augustin Calmet (16721757), and first published in 1746, this two-volume work examines a wide selection of supernatural tales and beliefs from across Europe, seeking to understand the truth behind such tales. The work was translated into English in 1850 by Henry Christmas (181168).Table of ContentsPreface; 1. That the resurrection of a dead person is the work of God only; 2. Revival of persons who were not really dead; 3. Resurrection of a man who had been buried three years, resuscitated by St Stanislaus; 4. Can a man really dead appear in his own body?; 5. Revival or apparition of a girl who had been dead some months; 6. A woman taken alive from her tomb; 7. Revenans, or vampires of Moravia; 8. Dead men of Hungary who suck the blood of the living; 9. Narrative of a vampire from the Jewish Letters, Letter 137; 10. Other instances of revenans. Continuation of the 'Gleaner'; 11. Argument of the author of the Jewish Letters, concerning revenans; 12. Continuation of the argument of the Dutch Gleaner; 13. Narrative from the 'Mercure Gallant' of 1693 and 1694 on revenans; 14. Conjectures of the Dutch Gleaner; 15. Another letter on revenans; 16. Pretended vestiges of vampirism in antiquity; 17. Ghosts in northern countries; 18. Ghosts in England; 19. Ghosts in Peru; 20. Ghosts in Lapland; 21. Return of a man who had been dead some months; 22. Excommunicated persons who went out of churches; 23. Some instances of the excommunicated being rejected or cast out of consecrated ground; 24. Instance of an excommunicated martyr being cast out of the ground; 25. A man cast out of the church for having refused to pay tithes; 26. Instances of persons who have given signs of life after their death, and have withdrawn themselves respectfully to make room for more worthy persons; 27. People who perform pilgrimage after death; 28. Reasoning upon the excommunicated who go out of churches; 29. Do the excommunicated decay in the earth?; 30. Instances to show that the excommunicated do not decay, and that they appear to the living; 31. Instances of these returns to earth of the excommunicated; 32. A Vroucolaca exhumed in the presence of M. de Tournefort; 33. Has the demon power to kill, and then to restore to life?; 34. Examination of the opinion that the demon can restore animation to a dead body; 35. Instances of phantoms which have appeared to the living, and given many signs of life; 36. Devoting people to death, practised by the heathens; 37. Instances of dooming to death among Christians; 38. Instances of persons who have promised to give each other news of themselves from the other world; 39. Extracts from the political works of the Abbé de St Pierre; 40. Divers systems to explain ghosts; 41. Divers instances of persons being buried alive; 42. Instances of drowned persons who have come back to life and health; 43. Instances of women thought dead who came to life again; 44. Can these instances be applied to the Hungarian revenans?; 45. Dead people who masticate in their graves and devour their own flesh; 46. Singular example of a Hungarian revenant; 47. Argument on this matter; 48. Are the vampires or revenans really dead?; 49. Instance of a man named Curma being sent back to this world; 50. Instances of persons who fall into ecstatic trances when they will, and remain senseless; 51. Application of such instances to vampires; 52. Examination of the opinion that the demon fascinates the eyes of those to whom vampires appear; 53. Instances of resuscitated persons who relate what they saw in the other world; 54. The traditions of the pagans on the other life, are derived from the Hebrews and Egyptians; 55. Instances of Christians being resuscitated and sent back to this world. Vision of Vetinus, a monk of Augia; 56. Vision of Bertholdus, related by Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims; 57. Vision of St Fursius; 58. Vision of a Protestant of York, and others; 59. Conclusion of this dissertation; 60. Moral impossibility that ghosts can come out of their tombs; 61. That what is related of the bodies of the excommunicated who walk out of churches, is subject to very great difficulties; 62. Remarks on the dissertation, concerning the spirit whic

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Book SynopsisA major actor in the American Revolution, the English intellectual Thomas Paine (1737â1809) is best remembered for his pamphlet Common Sense (1776), which advocated American independence from Britain. Although accorded honorary French citizenship in 1792 for his republican Rights of Man, Paine was later imprisoned and narrowly escaped the guillotine. It was around this time that he started to write The Age of Reason, originally published in two parts between 1794 and 1795. In Part 1, Paine outlines his personal religious views and attacks institutional faith as a human invention, while Part 2 analyses the Bible and highlights its contradictions. The work was met with great hostility in Britain and denounced as espousing atheism, while in America it led to a short-lived revival of deism but was also much reviled. This reissue includes both parts and affords valuable insight into radical freethinking during the age of revolutions.Table of ContentsThe Age of Reason; The Age of Reason, Part the Second.

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Book SynopsisWritten by her close friend and partner Edward Maitland, this two-volume biography details the life of physician, spiritualist, and activist Anna Kingsford. First published in 1896, this first volume details Kingsford's early life, her first meeting with Maitland in Paris, and the beginnings of their joint supernatural experiences.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Early life; 2. Our first acquaintance; 3. Some account of myself; 4. Mutual recognition; 5. To end of 1875; 6. Student life; 7. Spiritual unfoldments; 8. The celestial opened; 9. A cloud of witnesses; 10. Persecuted of Apollyon; 11. The baffled sorcerer; 12. Manifold experiences; 13. The first and last of the gods; 14. Warnings and instructions; 15. Floods of light; 16. Close of student course; 17. Among the astrals; 18. Conversations with the genii; 19. Continuous illuminations.

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Book SynopsisWritten by her close friend and partner Edward Maitland, this two-volume biography details the life of physician, spiritualist, and activist Anna Kingsford. First published in 1896, this second volume concentrates on Kingsford's and Maitland's spiritual exploits and foundation of various spiritualist societies, ending with Kingsford's death in 1888.Table of Contents20. The perfect way; 21. Numerous experiences; 22. Varied activities; 23. A tour abroad; 24. Winter at Paris; 25. The Theosophical Society; 26. A time of controversy; 27. Meditations on the mysteries; 28. The Hermetic Society; 29. Letters and illuminations; 30. Some former incarnations; 31. De multis rebus; 32. A flight for life; 33. A melancholy tour; 34. A home to die in; 35. The withdrawal; 36. Priest versus prophet; 37. Post mortem.

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Book SynopsisUkrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831â1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her powers as a medium. She was a co-founder of the theosophy movement in the United States, which she later extended to Europe and India, drawing from her extensive global travels and her familiarity with a broad range of belief systems, from Asian religions to New Orleans voodoo, as well as secret societies such as the Freemasons. Drawing from Hinduism and Buddhism, theosophy aimed to understand the mystic powers of the universe and promote the study of other religions. The first two volumes of The Secret Doctrine were published in 1888, but this third volume was published in 1897 by spiritualist Annie Besant from Blavatsky's notes. It looks at some ancient spiritual teachings and mysteries, and the development of the practice of magic.Table of ContentsPreface Annie Besant; Introductory; 1. Preliminary survey; 2. Modern criticism and the ancients; 3. The origin of magic; 4. The secresy of the initiates; 5. Some reasons for secresy; 6. The dangers of practical magic; 7. Old wine in new bottles; 8. The 'Book of Enoch' the origin and foundation of Christianity; 9. Hermetic and kabalistic doctrines; 10. Various occult systems of interpretations of alphabets and numerals; 11. The hexagon with the central point, or the seventh key; 12. The duty of the true occultist towards religion; 13. Post-Christian adepts and their doctrines; 14. Simon and his biography Hippolytus; 15. St. Paul the real founder of present Christianity; 16. Peter a Jewish kabalist, not an initiate; 17. Apollonius of Tyana; 18. Facts underlying adept biographies; 19. St. Cyprian of Antioch; 20. The eastern Gupta Vidya and the Kabalah; 21. Hebrew allegories; 22. The 'Zohar' on creation and the elohim; 23. What the occultists and kabalists have to say; 24. Modern kabalists in science and occult astronomy; 25. Eastern and western occultism; 26. The idols and the teraphim; 27. Egyptian magic; 28. The origin of the mysteries; 29. The trial of the sun initiate; 30. The mystery 'sun of initiation'; 31. The object of the mysteries; 32. Traces of the mysteries; 33. The last of the mysteries in Europe; 34. The post-Christian successors to the mysteries; 35. Symbolism of sun and stars; 36. Pagan sidereal worship or astronomy; 37. The souls of the stars – universal heliolatry; 38. Astrology and astrolatry; 39. Cycles and avatâras; 40. Secret cycles; 41. The doctrine of the avatâras; 42. The seven principles; 43. The mystery of Buddha; 44. 'Reincarnations' of Buddha; 45. An unpublished discourse of Buddha; 46. Nirvana-Moksha; 47. The secret books of 'Lam-Rin' and Dzyan; 48. Amita Buddha Kwan-Shai-yin, and Kwan-yin; 49. Tsong-Khapa; 50. A few more misconceptions corrected; 51. The 'Doctrine of the eye' and the 'Doctrine of the heart', or the 'heart's seal'; Some papers on the bearing of occult philosophy on life.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in Dutch in 1715, this two-volume work by the philosopher and theologian Bernard Nieuwentyt (1654â1718) is reissued here in the 1724 third edition of the English translation by John Chamberlayne (1668/9â1723). The book seeks to persuade both Christians and atheists that scientific examination of the natural world is compatible with religious belief. According to Chamberlayne, Nieuwentyt published this illustrated work to 'magnify the Wisdom and Goodness of God' while challenging those who did not see proof of the divine in nature. The work is known to have influenced the natural theology of the English philosopher William Paley (1743â1805), whose famous analogy of the watchmaker is believed to have been taken directly from Nieuwentyt. Arguing against rationalist philosophers such as Spinoza, Volume 1 defends natural theology and presents a series of detailed 'contemplations' about the complexity of the human body.Table of ContentsThe introduction; 1. Of the vanity of all worldly things; 2. Of all that is visible, and of our selves in particular; 3. Of some particulars in the mouth; 4. Of the throat, stomach, and bowels; 5. Of the venae lacteae, and ductus chylicus; 6. Of the heart; 7. Of respiration; 8. Of the structure of the veins; 9. Of the nerves, and briefly of the lymphatick vessels, glands, and membranes; 10. Of the muscles; 11. Of the bones; 12. Of the sight; 13. Of the hearing; 14. Of the senses of tasting, smelling and feeling; 15. Of the union of the soul and body, of the imagination and memory; 16. Of the humane passions or inclinations, and briefly of procreation; 17. Of the air; 18. Of meteors.

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Book SynopsisInspired by the work of the late Istvan Holt, who transformed the history of Enlightenment thought, this volume develops many of his ideas between commerce, peace and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.Trade Review'Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment is a stimulating and well-crafted testament to the influence of a beloved mentor and colleague.' Paul Cheney, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: power, prosperity and peace in Enlightenment thought Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky and Richard Whatmore; 1. Harrington's project: the balance on money, a republican constitution for Europe, and England's patronage of the world Mark Somos; 2. The enlightened prince and the future of Europe: Voltaire and Frederick the Great's anti-Machiavel of 1740 Isaac Nakhimovsky; 3. From jealousy of trade to the neutrality of finance: Isaac de Pinto's 'system' of luxury and perpetual peace Koen Stapelbroek; 4. Eighteenth-century Carthage Christopher Brooke; 5. Enlightenment socialism: Cesare Beccaria and his critics Sophus A. Reinert; 6. State-machines, commerce and the progress of Humanität in Europe: Herder's response to Kant in Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind Eva Piirimäe; 7. Peace, commerce and cosmopolitan republicanism: the legacy of Andrew Fletcher in late-eighteeth-century Scotland Iain McDaniel; 8. Liberty, war and empire: overcoming the rich state-poor state problem, 1789–1815 Richard Whatmore; 9. Karl Ludwig von Haller's critique of liberal peace Béla Kapossy; 10. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's War and Peace: the right of force revisited Edward Castleton; 11. From king's prerogative to constitutional dictatorship as reason of state Duncan Kelly; 12. Afterword: peace, politics and the division of labour Michael Sonenscher.

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Book SynopsisA new translation of Schopenhauer's collection of popular philosophical essays, featuring a substantial introduction explaining the context of the essays, and extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of the work. Essential for those studying Schopenhauer, the history of philosophy, and nineteenth-century German philosophy.Trade Review'This latest installment in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer is a very welcome appearance for the English-speaking scholarly world.' Dennis Vanden Auweele, Philosophischer LiteraturanzeigerTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Editorial notes and references; Introduction; Notes on text and translation; Chronology; Bibliography; Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume 2: Sporadic yet systematically ordered thoughts on multifarious topics; 1. On philosophy and its method; 2. On logic and dialectic; 3. Some thoughts concerning the intellect in general and in every respect; 4. Some observations on the antithesis of the thing in itself and the appearance; 5. Some words on pantheism; 6. On philosophy and natural science; 7. On colour theory; 8. On ethics; 9. On jurisprudence and politics; 10. On the doctrine of the indestructibility of our true essence by death; 11. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the nothingness of existence; 12. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the suffering of the world; 13. On suicide; 14. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the affirmation and negation of the will to life; 15. On religion; 16. Some remarks on Sanskrit literature; 17. Some archaeological observations; 18. Some mythological observations; 19. On the metaphysics of the beautiful and aesthetics; 20. On judgment, criticism, approbation and fame; 21. On learning and the learned; 22. Thinking for oneself; 23. On writing and style; 24. On reading and books; 25. On language and words; 26. Psychological remarks; 27. On women; 28. On education; 29. On physiognomy; 30. On noise and sounds; 31. Similes, parables and fables; Some verses; Versions of Schopenhauer's text; Glossary of names; Index.

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The status of boundaries and borders, questions of global poverty and inequality, criteria for the legitimate uses of force, the value of international law, human rights, nationality, sovereignty, migration, territory, and citizenship: debates over these critical issues are central to contemporary understandings of world politics. Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of contributors, including historians, political theorists, lawyers, and international relations scholars, this is the first volume of its kind to explore the racial and imperial dimensions of normative debates over global justice.

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Book SynopsisExamines Calvin's 1559 Institutes alongside critical theorists, arguing that attention to sovereignty, materiality, and teaching upsets simpler links between Protestantism, secularism, rationalism, and disenchantment. This book is for those working in religious studies, constructive theology, political theology, and debates over 'modernity'.Trade Review'This brilliant book defies facile summary.' Mark S. LeTourneau, Anglican and Episcopal History'… Sanchez homes in on Calvin's doctrines of providence and incarnation, offering a fresh reading of the Genevan Reformer's magnum opus as a pedagogical work that affirms embodiment and orients believers to engage the concrete worldly problems of society and politics.' J. Scott Jackson, International Journal of Systematic Theology'Calvin scholars and readers interested in how Reformation sources might interact with contemporary political theology will find Sanchez' book to be important and vital reading.' Aaron Klink, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Itinerant Pedagogy: 1. Writing reform: the genre of the 1559 Institutio Christianae Religionis; Part II. Providence: 2. The practice of writing providence; 3. Providence and world affirmation; 4. Providence and governmentality; Part III. Incarnation: 5. Calvin's 'secularization' of Augustinian signification; 6. Faith resignifying understanding: atonement and election; 7. Calvin against political theology.

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Book SynopsisWhy was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as a huge range of historical literature from all regions and periods of world history, Alan Strathern sets out a new way of thinking about transformations in the fundamental nature of religion and its interaction with political authority. His analysis distinguishes between two quite different forms of religiosity - immanentism, which focused on worldly assistance, and transcendentalism, which centred on salvation from the human condition - and shows how their interaction shaped the course of history. Taking examples drawn from Ancient Rome to the Incas or nineteenth-century Tahiti, a host of phenomena, including sacred kingship, millenarianism, state-church struggles, reformations, iconoclasm, and, above all, conversion are revealed in a new liTrade Review'As an extraordinarily original, articulate analysis of the relation between religious thought and political power during some three thousand years, this is a tour de force that bears comparison to some of Max Weber's classic writings. Strathern's combination of theoretical sophistication, intellectual ambition, and elegant writing has no contemporary rival.' Victor B. Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Michigan'This ambitious and highly sophisticated work of comparative history offers a wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between religion and politics in the pre-modern world. It seeks to uncover the logic underlying the way in which traditional sacred kingship responded, by means of ruler conversion, to the spread of transcendentalist religions like Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. This is an important and richly rewarding book.' Joan-Pau Rubiés, ICREA Research Professor, Universiat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona'Unearthly Powers is a magisterial and masterful study. By combining a sweeping historical vision with a sharp anthropological lens, Strathern provides a comprehensive framework to explore the dilemmas of religion and politics - god and king - that continue to animate humanity.' A. Azfar Moin, University of Texas'Karl Jasper's powerful notion of 'transcendence' in the Axial Age has provoked scholars and thinkers over several generations. Strathern subjects the idea to new scrutiny exploring how this invisible source of such immense historical power came to dominate the pre-modern world by its management of immanentist religion and political power.' Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Professor, Duke University. North Carolina'This book will be a required reading for any historian of religion and a milestone in the development of the field of global religious history. It is the product of mature and wide-ranging scholarship, displaying an extraordinary breadth of knowledge of scholarly literature and historical detail relating to disparate cultural regions around the world. To read this book is to embark on both a global and an intellectual journey with multiple engaging destinations. It is well worth the ride.' Mark Juergensmeyer, Journal of Church and State'The book is widely researched and lucidly written … particular interest to scholars and students of public theology.' Luke Larner, Theology'Unearthly Powers will be a milestone in the study of sacral kingship and cross-cultural contacts involving negotiations of political and religious authority.' Jonathan Brack, Journal of Early Modern History'… Strathern has with considerable brilliance opened up a rich field for debate and reflection.' Brian Stanley, Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The two forms of religion: being and nothingness; 2. Religion as the fabric of the state; 3. The two forms of sacred kingship: divinization and righteousness; 4. The economy of ritual efficacy and the empirical reception of Christianity; 5. The conversion of kings under the conditions of immanentism: Constantine to Cakobau; 6. Dreams of state: conversion as the making of kings and subjects; Conclusion; Glossary of theoretical terms.

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Book SynopsisTracing the history of constituent power over five key moments from the French Revolution onwards, Lucia Rubinelli considers the history of the idea in relation to the state and its institutions, and asks why constituent power is so often conflated with sovereignty.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Sieyès and the French Revolution; 2. Constitutional Politics in Nineteenth-Century France; 3. The Weimar Republic; 4. Constitutional politics in post-World War II Europe; 5. Arendt and the French Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisExploring the myriad efforts to strengthen colonial empire that unfolded in response to France''s imperial crisis in the second half of the eighteenth century, Pernille Røge examines how political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs shaped the recalibration of empire in the Americas and in Africa alongside the intensification of the French Caribbean plantation complex. Emphasising the intellectual contributions of the Economistes (also known as the Physiocrats) to formulate a new colonial doctrine, the book highlights the advent of an imperial discourse of commercial liberalisation, free labour, agricultural development, and civilisation. With her careful documentation of the reciprocal impacts of economic ideas, colonial policy and practices, Røge also details key connections between Ancien Régime colonial innovation and the French Revolution''s republican imperial agenda. The result is a novel perspective on the struggles to reinvent colonial empire in thTrade Review'For some time, historians have been searching for the links between the first and second French colonial Empires. Røge finds a compelling set of answers in the critique of plantation slavery and empire developed by the Physiocrats beginning in the mid eighteenth century.' Paul Cheney, University of Chicago'This ambitious and original book illuminates the emergence of a new vision of empire in eighteenth-century France, explaining how physiocratic ideas informed colonial policy during and after the French Revolution. Røge's rigorous analysis makes important contributions to the history of political economy as she traces the transition of empire from the Caribbean to Africa.' Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University'A complete reinterpretation of the dynamics of the French colonial empire. Delving into abundant first-hand material, Røge reveals the true importance of West Africa in rethinking French imperial expansion after the Seven Years' War. She brilliantly bridges the colonial orientations of the Ancien Regime and of the First Republic, revealing the enduring influence of the Physiocrats. A fascinating and successful historical enquiry.' François-Joseph Ruggiu, Sorbonne Université, France'An elegant and subtle re-interpretation of the ideological origins of modern French imperialism: rather than a product of nineteenth-century republicanism, the book shows France's new imperial project had its roots in Old Regime ideas and practices. The balance between change and continuity and the appreciation of interactions between the imperial centre and the colonial peripheries are remarkable.' David Todd, King's College London'The physiocrats (or économistes), market-oriented economic reformers of France's late Ancien Régime, have recently drawn increasing attention from historians. In this insightful study, Røge argues that physiocratic writings on empire in the pre-Revolutionary period helped shape a republican vision of empire as mission civilisatrice, an idea that would reach its apogee under the Third Republic … Highly recommended.' D. A. Harvey, Choice'… the findings presented in this book indeed shall lead us to re-evaluate the importance of physiocracy … a major contribution to scholarship on both colonial and Enlightenment history.' Damien Tricoire, Connections'Røge's work will assuredly change the way we think about the Physiocrats - no small merit. In the discriminating account it offers of the place of ideas in political context it will be a model for others to emulate.' John Shovlin, Global Intellectual History'… this is a stimulating and original book.' Richard Whatmore and Gabriel Sabbagh, History of European Ideas'… Pernille Roge's book on the influence of physiocratic thought on slavery and French colonialism, Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750–1802, is a welcome event … the originality of Røge's work is that it covers a range of topics, including slavery, French navigation laws (the Exclusif), foreign policy, conflicts between planters and merchants, abstract political economy, and action on the ground … elegant and robustly argued.' Liana Vardi, American Historical Review'Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire offers a welcome and surprisingly revelatory change of perspective by pulling the Physiocrats from the familiar context of the Flour Wars to consider their thinking on matters international and imperial.' Rebecca L. Spang, The William and Mary QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A colonial empire in crisis; 2. Empire beyond the mercantile system; 3. Between enslaved territories and overseas provinces; 4. Supplying or supplanting the Americas; 5. A revolutionary crescendo; Conclusion: Ancien Régime legacies.

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Book SynopsisW. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. While he is best known for his writings on themes of Black social and political life in the United States, this volume highlights his critical insights into empire and global politics.Table of ContentsDemocracy and Empire: An introduction to the international thought of W. E. B. Du Bois select chronology of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; 1. The present outlook for the dark races of mankind (1900); 2. To the nations of the world (1900); 3. The African roots of war (1915); 4. Of the culture of white folk (1917); 5. Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson (1918); 6. To the world (Manifesto of the second Pan-African congress) (1921); 7. Worlds of color (1925); 8. Liberia and rubber (1925); 9. Liberia, the League and the United States (1933); 10. Where do we go from here? Address to the Rosenwald economic conference (1933); 11. Inter-Racial implications of the Ethiopian crisis: A Negro view (1935); 12. The clash of colour: Indians and American Negroes (1936); 13. The union of colour (1936); 14. What Japan has Done (1937); 15. Black Africa tomorrow (1938); 16. The realities in Africa: European profit or Negro development? (1943); 17. Prospect of a world without race conflict (1944); 18. Colonies and moral responsibility (1946); 19. A cup of Cocoa and chocolate drops (1946); 20. An Appeal to the world: A statement of denial of human rights to minorities, Introduction (1947); 21. Colonies as cause of war: Address to the world peace congress, Paris (1949); 22. On the West Indies (1952); 23. To the world peace council, Budapest (1953); 24. Colonialism and the Russian revolution (1956); Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is for anyone who wonders whether to trust the media, seeks creative solutions to problems, or grapples with ethical dilemmas. Cognitive scientist Denise D. Cummins clearly explains how experts in economics, philosophy, and science use seven powerful decision-making methods to tackle these challenges. These techniques include: logic, moral judgment, analogical reasoning, scientific reasoning, rational choice, game theory and creative problem solving. Updated and revised in a second edition, each chapter now features quizzes for course use or self-study.Trade Review'This book is a must-read in uncertain times. Drawing from real-life current events, Denise Cummins shows us how to apply powerful strategies to decide whether to trust what politicians and medical experts tell us, how to think clearly about ethical dilemmas, and how to overcome blocks to creative problem-solving.' Philip Fernbach, cognitive scientist and Professor of Marketing, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and co-author of the best-selling book The Knowledge Illusion'This second edition could not be more timely. The volume's excellent thesis leads us to make better decisions ourselves and to understand how professionals in science, business, finance, the law, and politics should reason and make decisions. I'd recommend this book as essential reading for courses on formal methods in reasoning and decision making.' Mike Oaksford, Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK'How can we regulate our inborn propensity to tribalism and other cognitive biases? Good Thinking provides scientifically grounded, practical knowledge to empower us to think clearly and rationally. A must-read for anyone interested in making good decisions in everyday lives.' Jean Decety, Irving Harris Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago, USA'This book makes all revival critical thinking textbooks obsolete. It combines the best work in game theory, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. The use of concrete examples from political discourse magnifies its relevance. Dismantling the thinking that is threatening democracy will be difficult, but widespread adoption of this text would be a first step.' Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, USA, and Professor of Philosophy of International Law, King's College London, UK'Most educated people have learned a lot about particular domains of knowledge and have developed problem-solving skills within them. What they don't know is how that ability actually works. This book provides a fantastic tutorial to core thought modes that allow people to reflect on their thought processes. It is a valuable resource to anyone who wants to improve their reasoning.' Art Markman, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA, and author of Bring Your Brain to Work, and co-host of Two Guys on Your Head'This is a beautiful book. I am envious of the style and grace with which Cummins describes each piece of the game and how each piece fits together. Readers who immerse themselves in these ideas emerge with a priceless toolkit. How to play the game is then up to those who now have the tools.' W. Jake Jacobs, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Anxiety Research Group, USA'Cummins has added 107 new footnotes referencing recent literature, and includes many new examples from current public life (e.g., COVID-19, Trump era public communications), making this an excellent, state-of-the-art textbook balancing thoroughness, concision, and clarity.' S. A. Mason, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I: 1. The game of logic – what follows from what; 2. Moral judgment – how we tell right from wrong; 3. Analogical reasoning – the heart and soul of insight, discovery, and genius; 4. Scientific reasoning – proving what causes what; 5. Decision-making – choosing what is most likely to give you what you most want; 6. Game theory – when you're not the only one choosing; 7. Creative problem solving – turning what you don't want into what you do want; Part II: 8. Into the weeds of logic – how it's done; 9. Into the weeds of moral judgment – how it's done; 10. Into the weeds: analogical reasoning – how it's done; 11. Into the weeds of scientific reasoning – how it's done; 12. Into the weeds rational decision-making – how it's done; 13. Into the weeds of game theory – how it's done; 14. Into the weeds of problem-solving – how it's done; Appendix A; References.

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Book SynopsisAlthough a good deal has been written about Kant''s conception of free will in recent years, there has been no serious attempt to examine in detail the development of his views on the topic.This book endeavours to remedy the situation by tracing Kant''s thoughts on free will from his earliest discussions of it in the 1750s through to his last accounts in the 1790s. This developmental approach is of interest for at least two reasons. First, it shows that the path that led Kant to view freedom as a transcendental power that is both radically distinct from and compatible with the causality of nature was a winding one. Second, it indicates that, despite the variety of views of free will that Kant held at various times, the concept occupied a central place in his thought, because it was the point of union between his theoretical and practical philosophy.Trade Review'In terms of scholarship, organization, and clarity this book lives up to the standard Allison established in his previous books, and it is an invaluable resource for scholars of Kant or those interested in the concept of freedom.' S. E. Forschler, Choice'Allison's book is astounding in both breadth and depth. It is a fantastic resource that will likely prove to be essential reading for anyone who wants a deep understanding of Kant's theory of freedom.' Timothy Aylsworth, Journal of the History of PhilosophyTable of Contents1. Kant`s writings of the 1750s and the place in them of the free will issue; 2. Kant`s theoretical philosophy in the early 1760s and its relation to his conception of freedom; 3. Kant`s moral philosophy in the early 1760s; 4. Kant`s dialogue with Rousseau; 5. From the 'great light' to the 'silent decade': Kant`s thoughts on free will from 1769–1780; 6. Kant`s account of free will in the Critique of Pure Reason; 7. From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Groundwork; 8. The fact of reason and freedom in the Critique of Practical Reason; 9. The Critique of the Power of Judgment and the transition from nature to freedom; 10. After the Critique of the Power of Judgment: Kant`s final thoughts on free will.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study of one of the defining political problems of our era traces the development of ideas about sustainability from the sixteenth century, showing how it became a social and political problem, and addressing questions of how we should think about sustainability today.Trade Review'This is an important book. A history of ideas that ranges widely over political economy, the state and the environment, The Invention of Sustainability is a great example of how to present a compelling argument while respecting complexity. Paul Warde brings together wonderfully rich evidence and makes his case lucidly. The result is a bold and very satisfying work.' David Blackbourn, author of The Conquest of Nature'In this readable, erudite, and sophisticated book, Paul Warde persuasively argues that, although the current articulation of concerns about sustainability are relatively new, the concerns themselves have deep historical roots. He deftly combines environmental, economic, and intellectual history to show that analogous concerns with scarcity and depletion characterized the practices of pre-industrial farmers and foresters, as well as the policies of those responsible for the management of organic and mineral resources and the theories on which those policies were based.' Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'Paul Warde's impressive study of more than three centuries of ideas about economic growth and agricultural productivity draws out a more complex story. … scholarly and nuanced …' Clare Griffiths, Times Higher Education'Warde's book is perhaps the most important tract in the intellectual history of environmental ideas since Clarence Glacken's Traces on the Rhodian Shore … Historical geographers, environmental historians and historians more generally need to read this brilliant book.' Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography'… a beautifully written, deftly argued, and richly nuanced book … It is accessible for students, enlightening for scholars, and necessary reading for both.' Dagomar Degroot, MetascienceTable of Contents1. Living from the land, c.1500–1620; 2. Governing the woods, c.1500–1700; 3. Ambition and experiment, c.1590–1740; 4. Paths to sustained growth, c.1650–1760; 5. Nature translated, c.1670–1830; 6. Theories of circulation, c.1740–1800; 7. Political economies of nature, c.1760–1840; 8. History and destiny, c.1700–1870; Conclusion: ends and beginnings.

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Book SynopsisThrough the journeys of four foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - this book provides an intriguing perspective on America. It will be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars dealing with foreign intellectuals' observations of America, American studies, political science, and sociology.Trade Review'Tocqueville strikingly observed that Americans live in 'perpetual adoration' of themselves and that 'only foreigners or experience can make certain truths reach their ears.' These remarks, quoted at the beginning of James Nolan's impressive work on the most reflective foreign observers of American democracy, provide the point of departure for a fascinating study.' Daniel J. Mahoney, City Journal'James Nolan, Jr, a distinguished sociologist at Williams College, has written an extremely illuminating report on the judgments of four distinguished visitors to the United States … What They Saw in America is an indispensable tool for thoughtful Americans and their visitors.' David P. Deavel, Gilbert'The assembled experiences and viewpoints of these scholars compose an attractive description of the New World, provided with words of admiration and hints of irony … an enjoyable piece of reading, a very good book.' Simonetta Piccone Stella, Sociologica'The perspective of certain astute foreigners is the great virtue of James Nolan's absorbing book … the hard look in the mirror Nolan's book offers us is a very timely gift.' Charles J. Chaput, First Things'Is America any longer a nation with good character? This fraught political question, striking at the heart of culture and identity, receives provocative yet judicious attention from James L. Nolan, Jr. in What They Saw in America, a new study of four of the most famous foreign critics of the United States … Nolan's searching analysis raises many pressing questions …' James Poulos, Law & Liberty Book Reviews (www.lawliberty.org)Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Pride, patriotism, and the mercantilist spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont discover America; 3. Tocqueville and the quandary of American democracy; 4. Agrarianism, race, and the end of romanticism: Weber in early twentieth-century America; 5. Weber on sects, schools, and the spirit of capitalism; 6. A new Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on main street; 7. Chestertonian distributism and the democratic ideal; 8. From Musha to New York: Qutb encounters American jahiliyya; 9. Qutb's 'inquiring eyes' in Colorado and California; 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book is for: anyone interested in apocalyptic thinking in politics, who will find examples of how this thinking shapes contemporary discourse; scholars of the history of political thought, who will find new interpretations of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Morgenthau; and scholars of international relations, who will find a novel account of the political realist tradition.Trade Review'This is an excellent addition to the burgeoning literature on political realism. Straddling political theory and international relations (IR) in a fresh and creative fashion, McQueen offers us a strikingly original portrait of realist responses to apocalypse. Moving seamlessly from Machiavelli to Hobbes to Morgenthau, from early modern debates about the nature of God to modern fears of nuclear annihilation and catastrophic climate change, she tells a fascinating story that raises profound questions about the dangers and the possibilities of political theology. Combining acute textual interpretation, felicitous historical contextualisation, and subtle normative analysis, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times makes a major contribution to political theory and international relations.' Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge'Richard Hofstadter famously coined the term 'the paranoid style' to describe a certain histrionic strand within American politics. In Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times, McQueen audaciously outdoes Hofstadter by demonstrating the more widely pervasive 'apocalyptic' style characteristic not only of American political theorizing and practice but also of modern political thought more generally. McQueen shows how and explains why the rhetoric of doomsday, visions of tribulation and redemption, and 'end times' ideologies not only persist but actually pervade the supposedly secular age. She meticulously and ingeniously traces the apocalyptic quality of the contexts in which political authors/actors such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Morgenthau wrote, and how this apocalypticism infiltrated their writings. The book is certain to make an enormous impact in the fields of political thought, intellectual history, and American studies, especially given the now fashionable 'theological' turn in political theory and the dramatic surge in apocalyptic politics throughout the world.' John P. McCormick, University of Chicago'Alison McQueen uses the common, apocalyptic context of their thinking to give us a novel perspective on the unlikely trio of Machiavelli, Hobbes and Morgenthau. The perspective unifies and illuminates, revealing aspects of their writings, and connections between their concerns, that are unseen in other treatments.' Philip Pettit, Princeton University, New Jersey and Australian National University, Canberra'The most important achievement of Alison McQueen's fascinating new book is that she launches an overdue conversation between and among different versions of 'realism', past and present. Shedding fresh light on Machiavelli, Hobbes, Hans Morgenthau, and other 'realists', McQueen ignores the usual disciplinary boundaries between and among competing realist brands. Hers is an indispensable contribution not only to a growing body of realist scholarship but to political science and philosophy.' William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University'The heart of the book is four case studies that attempt to contextualize the apocalyptic thinking of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the efforts to contain it by Paul and Augustine, followed by a case study each on Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau. The strength of the book is in the detailed, well-researched reconstruction of the apocalyptic historical context that animated the thought of each, including Augustine.' W. J. Coats, Choice'McQueen's interpretations are compelling, and it is no mean feat to offer fresh and original readings of such well-studied thinkers, in turn asking us to ponder more carefully what it means to be a 'realist', and what the limits of such an outlook are. Furthermore, her identification of two main 'realist' responses to apocalypticism - the 'tragic worldview' and fighting apocalypse with apocalypse - are persuasive, both as matters of historical record and as analyses of the conceptual issues in play … The richness of this book stands beyond doubt, and deserves all of the attention it will surely garner.' Paul Sagar, Political Theory'At a time when the study of the theological underpinnings of political thought is gaining ground, Alison McQueen's new book is good news. As McQueen reminds us, political theorists often pass over the fact that half of Hobbes' Leviathan is a treatise on eschatology and ecclesiastical governance, or that Machiavelli concludes the Prince with a prophetic exhortation for the salvation of Italy from the 'barbarians' who periodically invaded it. Even a secularist like Morgenthau could not escape the allure of religious imagery in his most existentialist moments. McQueen's fascinating book is due credit both for bringing these associations to the fore, thus joining the chorus of the 'theological turn' in political theory, and for forensically excavating the complex engagement of some of the doyens of realist thought with the symbolic resources provided by theological ideas and texts.' Vassilios Paipais, Contemporary Political Theory'This is a book of many virtues. The central chapters combine the intellectual historian's deep sensitivity to context with the political theorist's sharp eye for conceptualizing different theoretical positions that can then be abstracted from their particular historical origins. Indeed, it is rare to read a book that combines these attributes so successfully and which answers potential objections to such an approach less by abstract methodological discussion and more by handling the texts with the care, detail and circumspection they deserve. McQueen has produced an erudite, thought-provoking and enjoyable study … a deeply impressive study of how some of the finest thinkers in the realist tradition struggled with apocalypticism in their own times, which proves to be a rewarding place to start when thinking through how we might respond to similar problems today.' Robin Douglass, Perspectives on Politics'McQueen does an excellent job at bringing together diverse thinkers and new interpretations under the aegis of the realist tradition. For those who see a sharp line between religion and politics, McQueen has offered a work that uses certain religious ideas to explain political philosophy. In fact, a fair reading of McQueen suggests that the line between religion and politics is actually quite blurry, with ideas traversing back and forth. With Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times, McQueen has done a service to the fields of international affairs, political theology, and all those interested in the use of political rhetoric.' Steven Lane, Reading ReligionTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Understanding the apocalypse; 3. Machiavelli's Savonarolan moment; 4. Hobbes 'At the Edge of Promises and Prophecies'; 5. Morgenthau and the postwar apocalypse; 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of political thought during the European Enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this is the latest in a sequence of volumes now established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought.Trade Review'The six volume Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought is the triumphant embodiment of a collective effort spanning three generations. The scholarly standard is high; the array of volumes gives an impression of careful, massive and reassuring permanence.' The Times Literary Supplement'… a definitive resource to anyone wishing to achieve a closer familiarity with these episodes in Enlightenment thought, or who wants to reconnect present philosophical outlooks with their historical beginnings.' British Journal for the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsCitations and abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Ancien Régime and its Critics: 1. The spirit of nations Sylvana Tomaselli; 2. The English system of liberty Mark Goldie; 3. Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration Richard H. Popkin and Mark Goldie; 4. Piety and politics in the century of lights Dale K. Van Kley; Part II. The New Light of Reason: 5. The comparative study of regimes and societies Melvin Richter; 6. Encyclopaedias and the diffusion of knowledge Daniel Roche; 7. Optimism, progress, and philosophical history Haydn Mason; 8. Naturalism, anthropology, and culture Wolfgang Pross; Part III. Natural Jurisprudence and the Science of Legislation: 9. German natural law Knud Haakonssen; 10. Natural rights in the Scottish Enlightenment James Moore; 11. The mixed constitution and the common law David Lieberman; 12. Social contract theory and its critics Patrick Riley; Part IV. Commerce, Luxury, and Political Economy: 13. The early Enlightenment debate on commerce and luxury Istvan Hont; 14. Physiocracy and the politics of laissez-faire T. J. Hochstrasser; 15. Scottish political economy Donald Winch; 16. Property, community, and citizenship Michael Sonenscher; Part V. The Promotion of Public Happiness: 17. Philosophical kingship and Enlightened despotism Derek Beales; 18. Cameralism and the sciences of the state Keith Tribe; 19. Utilitarianism and the reform of the criminal law Frederick Rosen; 20. Republicanism and popular sovereignty Iring Fetscher; Part VI. The Enlightenment and Revolution: 21. The American Revolution Gordon S. Wood; 22. Political languages of the French Revolution Keith Baker; 23. British radicalism and the anti-Jacobins Iain Hampsher-Monk; 24. Ideology and the origins of social science Robert Wokler; Biographies; Bibliographies; Index.

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Book SynopsisA highly original account of why German and American intellectuals have been so strongly drawn to Max Weber's ideas. Of interest to scholars across a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to those who simply want to understand why Weber mattered so much in the twentieth century.Trade Review'Joshua Derman's wonderful new study … attempts something that (to my knowledge, at least) has not been attempted before. His book not only provides an overview of Weber's thought, concerns, and historical context but also tells the complicated story of how his fragmentary writings were posthumously turned into the 'collected works' … The strange story of the sea change undergone by 'charisma' is alone worth the price of admission to Derman's study. Like the rest of the book it leaves one with an enhanced understanding of the contingencies, misunderstandings, and institutional vagaries that Weber encountered on his posthumous road to canonization.' Dana Villa, Perspectives on Politics'… an erudite intellectual history of Weber's reception - based on a remarkably comprehensive mastery of all of Weber's major texts and the voluminous German and American secondary literatures … Derman's history refreshes our view of Weber's entire oeuvre, highlighting the differences national, generational, ideological, and disciplinary boundaries made to Weber interpretation.' Matthew Specter, Central European History'This is a lucidly written book that anyone interested in Weber, twentieth-century intellectual history, or the way context shapes ideas will find illuminating.' Matthew Kadane, The American Historical Review'… Derman has made a fine contribution to Weber studies when it comes to understanding the reason for Weber's long life after life. For this book helps us recognize, once again, that Weber's charisma survived routinization precisely because it could not be reified despite canonization.' Sung Ho Kim, Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Max Weber and his circles; 2. Value freedom and polytheism; 3. The meaning of modern capitalism; 4. Skepticism and faith; 5. Max Weber's sociologies; 6. Charismatic rulership; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisMagna Carta was largely ineffective as a constitutional document for hundreds of years until it was reinvented for practical purposes by lawyers between the 1580s and 1616. This book reveals, partly from unpublished legal sources, the steps by which this occurred, and examines the causes.Trade Review'Baker's comprehensive and reflective study makes an impressive contribution to our understanding of Magna Carta in the medieval and early modern world.' Sean McGlynn, Journal of British StudiesTable of Contents1. The legal character of Magna Carta; 2. Chapter 29 in the fourteenth century; 3. Magna Carta in the Inns of Court, 1340–1540; 4. Personal liberty and the Church; 5. Royal prerogative and common law under Elizabeth I; 6. William Fleetwood and Magna Carta; 7. The resurgence of Chapter 29 after 1580; 8. Magna Carta and the rule of law, 1592–1606; 9. Sir Edward Coke and Magna Carta, 1606–15; 10. 'A year consecrate to justice': 1616; 11. Myth and reality.

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how liberal education transformed the political and religious culture of early modern Britain. Rather than pursue vainglorious warfare, humanists taught monarchs, including Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James VI, and Charles I, to wield their pens like swords to extend their imperial authority over church and state.Trade Review'This highly original and beautifully written book explores the liberal education received by royal children in Tudor and Stuart Britain … It succeeds admirably in demonstrating the wider significance of princes' education by drawing connections between childhood learning and royal policies in later life during a stormy and eventful period. This rich and deeply textured book is certain to provoke interest and debate for many years to come.' Judges, 2016 Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Thys boke is myne': how humanism changed the English royal schoolroom, 1422–1509; 2. Chivalry, ambition, and bonae litterae, 1509–33; 3. Erasmus' Christian prince and Henry VIII's royal supremacy; 4. Educating Edward VI: from Erasmus and godly kingship to Machiavelli; 5. Fortune's wheel and the education of early modern British queens; 6. Education and royal resistance: George Buchanan and James VI and I; 7. Britain's lost Renaissance? The Stuart princes; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life. Shows how to re-humanize the study of economics in the twenty-first century by integrating Adam Smith's two great books into contemporary empirical analysis.

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Book SynopsisExploring the lives of their earliest exponents, Christina Morina's book shows how Karl Marx's ideas were read, debated, adapted, and adopted in socialist movements across Europe in the years after his death, and how a theory of capitalisn grew into a political philosophy that shaped the history of the 20th century.

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Book SynopsisLooks at how whole domains of phenomena come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples from the natural and social sciences, ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this book explores the ways in which scientific objects are both real and historical.

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Book SynopsisIn this work, Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day in order to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Prologue Pt. 1: Visions of the Past: Six Histories in Search of a Tradition 1: Disciplines and Their Stories 2: Positivist and Pluralist Narratives 3: Synthetic Narratives 4: Humanist and Contextualist Narratives 5: The Changing Need for Narratives Pt. 2: Visions of the Future: Seven Traditions in Search of a Good Society 6: The Hellenic Tradition 7: The British Tradition 8: The French Tradition 9: The German Tradition 10: The Marxian Tradition 11: The Italian Tradition 12: The American Tradition Pt. 3: Visions of the Present: Social Science in Crisis or Transformation? 13: Forming and Transforming a Discipline 14: Diagnoses of Our Time 15: On the Heritage of Sociology 16: In Quest of a Secular Ethic Epilogue: Dialogue as an Antidote to Fragmentation? Appendix A: Selected Dates in the History of Western Social Thought Appendix B: Graphic Depictions of the Six Types of Narrative Appendix C: Basic Postulates of the Seven Traditions References Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad.In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals'' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere narrations or social constructions.

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Book Synopsis'[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time.'SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEHere are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.

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Book Synopsis"A book too disturbing to be ignored."—Booklist, boxed reviewTrade Review"A detailed but also lucid gallop through the various ways western philosophy has wrestled with the slippery topic of truth." Financial Times "There are splendid features in [Campbell's] book... Some of his portraits of individual thinkers are brilliantly drawn, compellingly written." The Times "Lucid, intelligent, cleverly organised and encyclopedic." Times Literary Supplement (The Liar's Tale).

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Book SynopsisThe best Darwin anthology on the market (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.Table of ContentsThe best Darwin anthology on the market (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970. The impact of Charles Darwin’s work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This new edition, larger and more varied than the previous ones, includes more of Darwin's own work and also presents the most recent research and scholarship on all aspects of Darwin’s legacy. The biological sciences, as well as social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature, have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts Excerpts from the most important books and articles of recent years confirm this Darwinian heritage. New work by Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Kevin Padian, Eugene C. Scott, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Michael Ruse, Frans de Waal, Noretta Koertge, George C. Williams, George Levine, Stephen Jay Gould, Gillian Beer, Ernst Mayr, and many others illuminates this exciting intellectual history. A wide-ranging new introduction by the editor provides context and coherence to this rich body of engaging material, much of which will be shaping human thought well into the new century. This edition will be useful to scientists and historians alike: The Norton Darwin explains Darwinian evolution and illustrates the social and intellectual conflicts of the past two centuries better than any other book that I am aware of. (Charles Taylor, Professor of Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles) And it will be of great value to the humanities and social sciences as well: The edition provides the sharpest and most exciting access to Darwin we have ever had. It shows all of us interested in the heart of our intellectual heritage how that heritage is sustained, manipulated, and honored. (James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California) A Selected Bibliography and an Index are included.

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Book SynopsisA soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram EilenbergerThe period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers. There were four women, in particular, whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century—at once in necessary dialogue and in striking contrast with one another.Simone de Beauvoir, already in a deep emotional and intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, was laying the foundations for nothing less than the future of feminism. Born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States in 1926 and was honing one of the most politically influential voices of the twentieth century. Her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged would reach the hearts and minds of millions of Americans in the decades to come, becoming canonical libertarian texts that continue to echo today among Silicon Valley’s tech elite. Hannah Arendt was developing some of today’s most important liberal ideas, culminating with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism and her arrival as a peerless intellectual celebrity. Perhaps the greatest thinker of all was a classmate of Beauvoir’s: Simone Weil, who turned away from fame to devote herself entirely to refugee aid and the resistance movement during the war. Ultimately, in 1943, she would starve to death in England, a martyr and true saint in the eyes of many.Few authors can synthesize gripping storytelling with sophisticated philosophy as Wolfram Eilenberger does. The Visionaries tells the story of four singular philosophers—indomitable women who were refugees and resistance fighters—each putting forward a vision of a truly free and open society at a time of authoritarianism and war.

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Book SynopsisA clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to philosophy.Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This philosophy book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to philosophy on the market.Organized by major philosophical themes, each pared-back, single-page entry demystifies the groundbreaking theories of famous philosophers. The essential ideas of the major philosophical schools and traditions, such as empiricism, rationalism, dualism, and materialism, can be grasped in seconds.Understanding Philosophy Has Never Been EasierThis smart but powerful guide cuts through the jargon and gives you the facts in a clear, visual way. Unlock the mysteries of more than 90 key philosophical ideas, from “I think, therefore I am” and Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential angst to Nietzsche’s Übermensch and Plato’s ideal forms.Whether yo

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Book SynopsisIntellectuals on the left are returning to historical materialism, to class analysis. This collection reflects that move, and challenges the limits imposed on action and resistance by those who see liberating "new times" in the contradictions of contemporary capitalism.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction - what is the "postmodern" agenda? Ellen Meiksins Wood. Part 2 Postmodernism and intellectuals: where do postmodernists come from? Terry Eagleton; language, history and class struggle, David McNally; the politics of cultural studies, Francis Mulhern; culture, nationalism, and the role of intellectuals, Aijaz Ahmad interviewed I; old positions/new necessities - history, class and Marxist metanarrative, Bryan D. Palmer; against social de(con)struction of science - cautionary tales from the Third World, Meera Nanda. Part 3 Postmodernism and movements: issues of class and culture, Aijaz Ahmad interviewed II; the mirror of race - postmodernism and the celebration of difference, Kenan Malik; postmodernism, feminism and Marx - notes from the abyss, Carol A. Stabile; Marx and the environment, John Bellamy Foster; northern intellectuals and the EZLN, Daniel Nugent; five thesis on actually existing Marxism, Frederic Jameson. Part 4 Afterword: in defense of history, John Bellamy Foster.

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Book SynopsisSixty years ago, at the height of World War II, an extraordinary series of gatherings took place at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts. During the summers of 1942-1944, leading European figures in the arts and sciences met at the college with their American counterparts for urgent conversations about the future of human civilization in a precarious world. Two Sorbonne professors, the distinguished medievalist Gustave Cohen and the existentialist philosopher Jean Wahl, organized these ""Pontigny"" sessions, named after an abbey in Burgundy, where similar symposia had been held in the decades before the war. Among the participants - many of whom were Jewish or had Jewish backgrounds - were the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Rachel Bespaloff, the poets Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens, the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss and the linguist Roman Jakobson, and the painters Marc Chagall and Robert Motherwell. In this collection of original essays, Stanley Cavell and Jacques Derrida lead an international group of scholars - including Jed Perl, Mary Ann Caws, Jeffrey Mehlman, and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl - in assessing the lasting impact and contemporary significance of Pontigny-en-Amerique. Rachel Bespaloff, a tragic figure who wrote a major work on the Iliad, is restored to her rightful place beside Arendt and Simone Weil. Anyone interested in the ""intellectual resistance"" of Francophone intellectuals and artists, and the inspiring support from such American figures as Stevens and Moore, will want to read this pioneering work of scholarship and historical re-creation.

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Book SynopsisThis work provides a historically grounded critique of postmodernism, and a history of how the socialist left has helped to create its ideas. In the course of this two-sided critique, it develops an account of a Marxism that sets itself the task of building a collective political subject.

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Book SynopsisLooking at the intellectual life in today's New Zealand, this work is organised around interviews with leading intellectuals. It shows that in their commitment to understanding and improving the social world they have faced hostility, incomprehension and rejection but their lives are rich, complex and dramatic.

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