History of ideas Books
Princeton University Press A Revolution of the Mind
Book SynopsisDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"Spinoza's radicalism was certainly frightening in its time, and Israel has valuably if aggressively opened the question of its influence on the Enlightenment and the era of revolution."--Samuel Moyn, Nation "Israel is right to emphasize the importance of this intellectual movement, but since his is such a sweeping revision of so many generations of received ideas, his work raises the question of why the radical Enlightenment has been misunderstood or obscured for so long in favor of such colorful figures as Voltaire (in Israel's telling, a witty, snobbish sycophant)... We are lucky that a historian of Israel's caliber has taken these subjects on and lucky, too, that he has now produced a readable introduction to them."--Benjamin Moser, Harper's Magazine "Israel's reasoned assertion for the influence of the Radical Enlightenment on democratic thought is certainly compelling, making this essential reading for students of the Enlightenment era as well as anyone interested in the foundations of modern democracy."--Library Journal "Israel's new book is a breathtaking rethinking of the Enlightenment and its impact in the modern world."--Choice "Perhaps no active scholar has shaped the conversation about the sources and meaning of the Enlightenment more than Jonathan Israel... Almost miraculously, Israel manages to embody the greatest intellectual virtues and vices."--Christian Century "Israel succeeds commendably in a great evaluation and dissemination of generally unknown texts from beyond the familiar territories of France, England, and America. In this respect, he broadens the common conception of where Enlightenment ideas were debated and implemented, unlike Isaiah Berlin, who failed to notice the American Enlightenment."--Rivka Weisberg and Carl Pletsch, 1650-1850 "In telling this fascinating story, A Revolution of the Mind reveals the surprising origins of our most cherished values--and helps explain why in certain circles they are frequently disapproved of and attacked even today."--World Book Industry "The book is obligatory reading."--Antal Szantay, Israel, European History Quarterly "[T]hanks to Israel's engaging narrative style, this is an accessible and entertaining, yet hugely informative read."--Sinead Fitzgibbon, Marginalia "Israel's book is itself a demonstration of just how alive Enlightenment values and ideals still are."--Alan Apperley, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface vii CHAPTER I: Progress and the Enlightenment's Two Conflicting Ways of Improving the World 1 CHAPTER II: Democracy or Social Hierarchy? The Political Rift 37 CHAPTER III: The Problem of Equality and Inequality: The Rise of Economics 92 CHAPTER IV: The Enlightenment's Critique of War and the Quest for "Perpetual Peace" 124 CHAPTER V: Two Kinds of Moral Philosophy in Conflict 154 CHAPTER VI: Voltaire versus Spinoza: The Enlightenment as a Basic Duality of Philosophical Systems 199 CHAPTER VII: Conclusion 221 Notes 243 Index 267
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University of Minnesota Press Inoperative Community
Book SynopsisThis work examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse and the individual.Table of ContentsThe inoperative community; Myth interrupted; "Literary communism"; Shattered love; Of divine places
£17.09
Unicorn Publishing Group A History of Dangerous Assumptions
Book SynopsisA History of Dangerous Assumptions features over two hundred illuminating and intriguing case-studies of this fascinating subject, including some of the most disastrous assumptions ever foisted upon the human race. This book began as an experiment, to discover if acting on assumptions could be discerned through the ages. In fact, this matter of assuming… of jumping to conclusions… of lacking sufficient evidence… of taking things for granted… seems to have caused far more problems for civilisation than expected. From Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps, to Bonaparte’s march on Moscow; from the hubris of Icarus and Phaeton, to the toppling towers of the Tay Bridge; from the maddening phantoms of a Northwest Passage, to the sinking of the Titanic; from the Schlieffen Plan of the First World War, to the creation of assumptions in the approach to D-Day; from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Sherlock Holmes, here lies a highly contrasted trove of stories, episodes and anecdotes, their common link the mysterious mischief of assumption.
£17.00
Simon & Schuster Ltd In Our Time
Book Synopsis‘Melvyn not only makes you think … he makes it enjoyable too. He’s brilliant.’ – John Humphrys, the Today Programme. ‘In a troubled world where many sneer at experts, In Our Time is always a treat. Those who know what they're talking about, talk about it, and they do it under the benevolent if occasionally testy guidance of one who knows how to bring out the best in them. Listen, read, mark, and inwardly digest; agreeable glass of accompanying refreshment optional.’ - Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch 'This beautifully produced and expertly edited book is a wonderfully rich and varied sample of 50 In Our Time programmes, from ancient Greek philosophy to dark matter via the gin craze. It will whet your appetite to visit or revisit the many hundreds of other programmes in this remarkable series.' - Professor Angela Hobbs
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HarperCollins Publishers Karl Marx
Book SynopsisA major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute. The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion – or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. There have been many thousands of books on Marxism, but almost all are written by academics and zealots for whom it is a near blaspemy to treat him as a figure of flesh and blood. In the past few years there have been excellent and successful biographies of many eminent Victorians and yet the most influential of them has remained untouched. In this book Francis Wheen, for the first time, presens Marx the man in all his brilliance and frailty – as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English gentleman; as an angry agitator who spent much of his adult life in scholarly silence in the British Museum Reading Room; as a gregarious and convivial host who fell out with almost all his friends; as a devoted family man who impregnated his housemaid; as a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink, cigars and jokes.
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Princeton University Press Minds Wide Shut
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A sweeping study of the rise of rigid certainty in politics, economics and literature, and the threat it presents to democracy, which requires open-mindedness and compromise."---Bill Clinton, The Guardian"“Morson and Schapiro are surely right to point out that in recent years we have… seen new fundamentalisms generate solidarity through distrust, disinformation and angry resentment. Their book reminds us that we need to aspire to create communities open to learning, to conversation and to recognizing one's own errors. That's what we want, after all, from our campuses and from our democracy.” --Michael Roth, Wall Street Journal""Their argument on the whole is compelling, and one can only hope society listens to it."---Nat Brown, National Review"Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro are professors at Northwestern University in such disparate fields as Slavic languages and literatures and Economics. The book is a seamless fusion of their learning, observation, analysis, and wisdom. They are experienced collaborators and we are their beneficiaries. ... Defending politics and democracy is difficult although preferable to the alternatives. The same applies to other fields vulnerable to fundamentalism. Moderation is not easy, and thinking is strenuous. However, minds wide shut hurt more. ... Minds Wide Shut ... is solemnly and enthusiastically recommended."---Linda Quest, International Social Science Review"Minds Wide Shut issues a devastating indictment of the ideological extremism so characteristic of fundamentalism." * Chronicles *"Elegantly written, thought-provoking, and timely work, enhanced by dazzling references to literature, philosophy, theology and intellectual history. [The book] is to be recommended to all scholars, senior students and even seasoned general readers concerned by the regressive forces active across the political spectrum, forces that are antithetical to a healthy democratic society."---Karl W. Schweizer, The European Legacy
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Cambridge University Press Hijacked
Book SynopsisWhat is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers'' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers'' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today''s neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the One Percent. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.
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The University of Chicago Press Esalen
Book SynopsisRecounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been one of the world leaders in alternative and experiential education and stands at the center of the human potential movement.Trade Review"The first all-encompassing history of Esalen: its intellectual, social, personal, literary and spiritual passages. Kripal brings us up to date and takes us deep beneath historical surfaces in this definitive, elegantly written book." - Playboy "Kripal tells the story of this beautiful retreat in California's Big Sur region - its history at once sexy, salacious, intellectual and political - with reverence and playfulness.... He is an engaging storyteller and Esalen a worthy subject (a kind of Us Weekly for the discerning intellectual)." - Publishers Weekly "An impressive new book.... Kripal has written the definitive intellectual history of the ideas behind the institute." - San Francisco Chronicle "Kripal examines Esalen's extraordinary history and evocatively describes the breech birth of Murphy and Price's brainchild. His real achievement, though, is effortlessly synthesizing a dizzying array of dissonant phenomena (cold war espionage, ecstatic religiosity), incongruous pairings (Darwinism, Tantric sex), and otherwise schizy ephemera (psychedelic drugs, spaceflight) into a cogent, satisfyingly complete narrative." - Atlantic Monthly"
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HarperCollins Publishers September 1 1939 W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of
Book SynopsisThis is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book about a poet W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.About a poem September 1, 1939', his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown and which has enjoyed or been condemned to a tragic and unexpected afterlife.About a city New York, an island, an emblem of the Future, magnificent, provisional, seamy, and in 1939 about to emerge as the defining twentieth-century cosmopolis, the capital of the world.And about a world at a point of change about 1939, and about our own Age of Anxiety, about the aftermath of September 11, when many American newspapers reprinted Auden's pTrade ReviewPraise for September 1, 1939: ‘Sansom has given us a book in which all serious readers of Auden will find something to value. He has chosen exactly the right poem for our times to anchor his thoughts on this man who came to define a generation’ Literary Review ‘Richly entertaining … explores what goes on in the poem and why it has had such an impact. Shandyesque and magpie-like, scholarly yet frolicsome, the book makes room for all manner of diverse material, to great effect’ Blake Morrison, Guardian Praise for Paper: ‘Engaging and dynamic’ Andrew Martin, Financial Times ‘Wonderfully diverting…Splendidly dense with fact and thought’ Steven Poole, Times Literary Supplement ‘Sansom’s scholarship is prodigious; his enthusiasm inexhaustible…He can make one laugh out loud by his placing of a single word’ Daily Telegraph ‘A collection of ever so erudite, witty, chucklesome essays, rich with digressions and asides, on paper, in many of its guises, that seeks to refute – and does refute – the idea that we are moving towards a paperless world’ Bookmunch
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HarperCollins Publishers Ecology and Natural History Collins New
Book SynopsisEcology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain's ecosystems to illustrate each point.The science of ecology underlies most of the key issues facing humanity, from the loss of biodiversity to sustainable agriculture, to the effects of climate change and the spread of pandemics. In this accessible and timely addition to the New Naturalist series, ecologist David M. Wilkinson introduces some of the key ideas of this science, using examples from British natural history. Extensively illustrated with photographs of the species and habitats that can be seen in the British countryside, this book shows how the observations of field naturalists link into our wider understanding of the working of the natural world.Investigating ecosystems across the British Isles, from the Scottish and Welsh mountains to the woodlands of southern England aTrade Review‘All books in the New Naturalist series deal with ecology and natural history in one way or another, but this is the first to take ecology itself as the main theme. It provides a broad but comprehensive overview of the subject … The author has a pleasant ‘storytelling’ style, well suited to the task; this is a book that could, I think, be read and understood by anyone with a keen interest. I’ve bought plenty of books in this series over the years but this is the first for a while that I’ve been inspired to read through, cover to cover, within a few days.’ Ian Carter, British Birds ‘Gives a real feel of what ecologists actually have to do, and how their methods and conclusions are changing … Hasbeen done very well, combining the scientific knowledge intoan interesting story … An excellent book’ The Linnean Praise for David M. Wilkinson ‘Wilkinson offers answers as good as science currently can deliver’ Science ‘This is a fascinating book. Every ecologist will profit from reading it’ Basic and Applied Ecology ‘Extraordinarily readable and accessible … Examines some of the very basic questions underlying ecology in its widest sense’ British Ecological Society Bulletin Praise for the New Naturalist series ‘Taken either individually or as a whole, they are one of the proudest achievements of modern publishing’ The Sunday Times ‘The series is an amazing achievement’ The Times Literary Supplement
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Oxford University Press Inc The Populist Temptation
Book SynopsisPopulism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of the world. In simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies elites, minorities and foreigners while lionizing the people. It reached its apogee in the U.S. with the election of Donald Trump but has been a force in Europe since the Great Recession and the refugee crisis. We now see the rise of leaders with populist tendencies everywhere from Brazil to Turkey.In The Populist Temptation, Barry Eichengreen places this global resurgence of populism in its historical context. Populists have always thrived, he observes, in times of poor economic performance. Populism feeds on rising inequality, which augments the ranks of those left behind and fans dissatisfaction with the economic status quo. It responds to rapid economic change that heightens insecurity. These economic developments, Eichengreen shows, give rise to populist reactions when they highlight the divergent interests of the people and the elite. Banking and financial crises are a case in point: the financiers who are the precipitating agents of such crises are card-carrying members of the elite, and are seen as profiting at the expense of the people.But populism is also a protest against the declining influence of the traditions, beliefs and community of once-dominant groups. It is a reaction against the challenge posed by immigrants and minorities to the people as a homogeneous, well-defined entity. Populists capitalizing on these feelings appeal to a glorious, mythologized past grounded in the collective traditions of that once-dominant majority. They invoke nationalism and criticize politicians who embrace diversity, open borders and equal rights. Populism has particular appeal, Eichengreen shows, when these identity politics and economic grievances come together.There is no magic solution to these concerns, but Eichengreen points to a starting place: strengthening welfare state policies that make for greater equality of opportunity and social cohesion. Comparing Europe with the United States, he shows that America''s patchwork welfare state is less well equipped to deal with the fallout from globalization and technical change and the growing distance between social groups. This reality will be hard to change, since America''s limited welfare state reflects the country''s historically-rooted suspicion of big government. It is therefore in the United States, Eichengreen concludes, where the siren song of populism is most alluring--and dangerous.Trade ReviewBarry Eichengreen is the world leader in distilling the lessons of economic history for the policy makers of today. This important book is the best we yet have on populism and the antidotes it demands. * Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University *No one makes economic history relevant to today while doing justice to the past like Barry Eichengreen. The Populist Temptation is the best of American and European perspectives on the worst of current EU and US politics. Sobering and sensible, this is a necessary interpretative guide to our times. * Adam S. Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics *Finally, a superb book that places populism in its proper historical context. And who better to write it than Barry Eichengreen, a master at shedding light on our contemporary economic problems from a historical perspective? Eichengreen brilliantly describes the backlash unleashed by economic difficulties and dislocation periodically throughout history, and the varying success of political regimes to rise to the challenge. Historical treatments with their focus on deeply rooted processes can be fatalistic. Eichengreen nicely sidesteps that trap, with a hopeful, constructive message pointing the way forward. * Dani Rodrik, Harvard University *In The Populist Temptation, Barry Eichengreen, amongst the foremost international economists today, explains why we are seeing an outburst of populist movements across the industrial world, and how they mirror similar movements from history. He argues that while the populists have genuine grievances, the solutions their leaders propose are unlikely to work. Eichengreen is skeptical that populists' concerns can be addressed easily. However, his insightful analysis is an essential starting point for anyone who wants to understand one of the most important developments of our times. * Raghuram G. Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago *Barry Eichengreen has written a characteristically lucid book on the contemporary threat of populism." - Financial TimesTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Populist Archetype Chapter 2. American Panorama Chapter 3. Luddites and Laborers Chapter 4. Voyage of the Bismarck Chapter 5. The Associationalist Way Chapter 6. Unemployment and Reaction Chapter 7. The Age of Moderation Chapter 8. Things Come Apart Chapter 9. Trumped Up Chapter 10. Breaking Point Chapter 11. Containment Chapter 12. Au Revoir Europe? Chapter 13. Prospects
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Oxford University Press Inc Global Race War International Politics and Racial
Book SynopsisInternational Relations theory assumes that the struggle for power is not only ahistorical but that international politics is necessarily the realm of a perpetual struggle for power between states. However, by looking beyond the state, the study of global politics may itself reveal the importance of alternative imaginaries just as historically salient as that of the state system. In particular, this book argues that a specific racial imaginary has, over the past two centuries, cut across politically defined state boundaries to legitimate practices of genocidal violence against so-called enemy races.In Global Race War, Alexander D. Barder shows how the very idea of global order was based on racial hierarchy and difference. Barder traces the emergence of this global racial hierarchy from the early 19th century to the present to explain how a historical racial global order unraveled over the first half of the 20th century, continued during the Cold War, and reemerged during the Global War on Terror. As Barder shows, imperial, racial, and geopolitical orders intersected over time in ways that violently tore apart the imperial and sovereign state system and continue to haunt politics today.Examining global politics in terms of race and racial violence reveals a different spatial topology across domestic and global politics. Moreover, global histories of racial hierarchy and violence have important implications for understanding the continued salience of race within Western polities. Global Race War revisits two centuries of international history to show the important consequences of a global racial imaginary that continues to reverberate across time and space.Trade ReviewGlobal Race War shows how the modern international order is founded upon a pervasive, persistent, and powerful 'racial imaginary.' In so doing, it exposes the frightening global reach and lasting impact of white supremacist ideas. Everyone interested in international relations and racial thought needs to read this revelatory work of passionate scholarship. * Julian Go, author of Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory *This is an ambitious and wide-ranging book on a topic of vital significance for understanding the development of the modern world system. Ranging from the Haitian Revolution to the present, Barder shows how a pervasive yet contested racial imaginary has legitimated global hierarchies and generated persistent violence. Global Race War is a valuable contribution to scholarship on the history and theory of international order. * Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge *Alexander Barder's Global Race War proves Public Enemy right: Geopolitics turns on a White West's fear of a Black Planet. * Robert Vitalis, author of White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Race War and the Global Racial Imaginary Chapter One: Interpreting the Haitian Revolution: Global Racial Hierarchy and War in the 19th Century Chapter Two: Scientific Racism, Social Darwinism and Global Racial Order Chapter Three: Global Racial Violence: Settler Colonialism and the American Indian Wars Chapter Four: Race Annihilation, War and the Global Imperial Order: The Armenian Genocide of 1915 Chapter Five: Nazi Grand Strategy, Genocide and Dismantlement of the State-System, 1941-1945 Chapter Six: The "Yellow Peril" and the Asia-Pacific War Chapter Seven: Racial Violence in the Global South: Vietnam and the Crisis of the American Liberal Order Chapter Eight: Civilizational Conflict as Race War: From the 1990s to the Global War on Terror Chapter Nine: The "Great Replacement": Racial War in the Twenty-First Century
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Oxford University Press The Enlightenment that Failed
Book SynopsisThe Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind''s awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. He argues that a populist, Robespierriste tendency, sharply at odds with democratic values and freedom of expression, gained an ideological advantage in France, and that the negative reaction this generally provoked caused a more general anti-Enlightenment reaction, a surging anti-intellectualism combined with forms of religious revival that largely undermined the longings of the deprived, underprivileged, and disadvantaged, and ended by helping, albeit often unwittingly, conservative anti-Enlightenment ideologies to dominate the scene. The Enlightenment that Failed relates both the American and the French revolutions to the Enlightenment in a markedly different fashion from how this is usually done, showing how both great revolutions were fundamentally split between bitterly opposed and utterly incompatible ideological tendencies. Radical Enlightenment, which had been an effective ideological challenge to the prevailing monarchical-aristocratic status quo, was weakened, then almost entirely derailed and displaced from the Western consciousness, in the 1830s and 1840s by the rise of Marxism and other forms of socialism.Trade Review...brilliant... * Stewart J. Brown, Intellectual History Review *It is a credit to Israel's scholarship that the book is far broader than polemics ... he prose is precise throughout, and Israel's commitment to intellectual history -- his conviction that ideas are primary movers of history -- is compelling * Luke Nicastro, The University Bookman *Table of Contents1: Introduction: Radical Enlightenment and 'Modernity' Part I: The Origins of Democratic Modernity 2: The Rise of Democratic Republicanism 3: From Radical Renaissance to Radical Enlightenment 4: From Radical Reformation to the Cercle Spinoziste 5: English 'Deism' and its pre-1700 Roots 6: Great 'Moderates' and the Temptations of the Radical: Montesquieu and the Forbidden 7: D'Holbach against Voltaire and Rousseau: a triangular battle of Political Thought Systems 8: Revolution without Violence: The Nordic Model Part II: Human Rights and Revolution (1770-1830) 9: Parallel Revolutions: America and France (1774-1793) 10: General Will' and The Invention of Universal and Equal Human Rights (1750-1789) 11: Emancipating Women: Marriage, Equality, and Female Citizenship (1775-1815) 12: From Classical Economics to post-Classical redistributive Economics (1775-1820) 13: Reforming Europe's Law Codes 14: Unity of Humanity: Race Theory and the Equality of Peoples 15: Unity of Humanity: Property, Class, and the Emancipation of Man Part III: Revolution and Competing Revolutionary Ideologies (1789-1830) 16: Robespierre anti-philosophe, Or, the Battle of Ideologies during the French Revolution 17: The Swiss Revolution and the Hard Climb to Democratic Republicanism (1782-1848) 18: The Belgian Revolution (1787-1794) 19: Enlightening against Robespierre (and Napoleon): the Écoles centrales (1792-1804) 20: Revolution and the Universities: Germany's 'Philosophy Wars' (1780-1820) 21: Radicalism and Repression in the Anglo-American World (1775-1815) 22: The American Connection 23: The Spanish Revolution (1808-1823) 24: Black Emancipation, Universal Emancipation and the Haïtian Revolution (1775-1825) Part IV: The Enlightenment that Failed 25: Reaction and Radicalism: Germany and the Low Countries (1814-1830) 26: British Philosophical Radicalism (1814-1830) 27: Failed Restoration in France (1814-1830) 28: Bolívar and Spinoza 29: Karl Marx and the Left's Turn from Radical Enlightenment to Socialism (1838-1848) 30: Conclusion: The 'Radical Enlightenment Thesis' and Its Critics
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Oxford University Press A Biography of Loneliness
Book Synopsis''A compassionate, wide-ranging study.'' Terry Eagleton, The GuardianDespite 21st-century fears of a modern ''epidemic'' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist. As Alberti shows, the birth of loneliness is linked to the development of modernity: the all-encompassing ideology of the individual that has emerged in the mind and physical sciences, in economic structures, in philosophy and politics. While it has a biography of its own, loneliness impacts on people differently, according to their gender, ethnicity, religion, outlook, and socio-economic position. It is, Alberti argues, not a single state but an ''emotion cluster'', composed of a wide variety of responses that include fear, anger, resentment and sorrow. In spite of this, loneliness is not always negative. And it is physical as well as psychological: loneliness is a product of the body as much as the mind. Looking at informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, A Biography of Loneliness charts the emergence of loneliness as a modern emotional state. From social media addiction to widowhood, from homelessness to the oldest old, from mall hauls to massages, loneliness appears in all aspects of 21st-century life. Yet we cannot address its meanings, let alone formulate a cure, without attention to its complex, protean history.Trade ReviewIn addition to Alberti's sharp political analysis, one of the most powerful themes in her book is how varied loneliness is, how embedded it is in our lives, how extensively it evades generalisation. Maybe loneliness is a 21st-century epidemic, a modern illness requiring an urgent response, but its also so much more than that. * Sophie McBain, The New Statesman *Alberti conveys the ambivalence of loneliness as we now conceive of it, its mingling of horror and desirability in a machine age. * Jane O'Grady, Literary Review *A wonderful biography of loneliness by a brilliant socio-cultural historian. * James Daybell, Histories of the Unexpected *Beginning with the intriguing argument that loneliness is a modern emotional phenomenon, Fay Bound Alberti traces many facets and factors leading up to the current loneliness dilemma. The book contributes both to several facets in the history of emotion over the past two centuries, and to a humane understanding of the issues and possibilities involved today. * Dr Peter Stearns, George Mason University *This fascinating book explores an increasingly central experience in our society-loneliness. Bound Alberti does a wonderful job of explaining where do all lonely people come from, and where do they all belong. The nuanced picture she draws has real potential to help us better understand, cope with, and reduce the most significant epidemic of our time. The author makes a particularly valuable distinction between fleeting and chronic loneliness. While fleeting loneliness can boost creativity and enhance emotional and spiritual clarity, chronic lonelinesswhich involves an existential sense of meaningless lackis devastatingly destructive. I highly recommend this important book for all readers. * Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, author of The Arc of Love *Why is loneliness such a major concern in western societies? In this thoughtful, thought-provoking book Fay Bound Alberti traces modern loneliness from its nineteenth-century cultural and demographic origins to its latest incarnation as a health emergency, a scourge of western society. Exploring diverse experiences of loneliness - from William Wordsworths famous lonely as a cloud to Sylvia Plaths desperate description of it as a disease of the blood - Bound Alberti provides a compelling account of the causes and consequences of loneliness in an age when community solidarities are at a premium. * Barbara Taylor, Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London; principal investigator on Wellcome Trust funded project, 'Pathologies of Solitude, 18th-21st Century' *A compassionate, wide-ranging study. * Terry Eagleton, The Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: No (Wo)man is an island Introduction: Loneliness as a 'modern epidemic' 1: When 'oneliness' became loneliness: the birth of a modern emotion 2: A 'disease of the blood'? The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath 3: Loneliness and lack: romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight 4: Widowhood and loss: from Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor 5: Instaglum? Social media and the making of online community 6: A 'ticking timebomb'? Rethinking loneliness in old age 7: Roofless and rootless: no place to call 'home' 8: Feeding the hunger. Materiality and the neglected lonely body 9: Lonely clouds and empty vessels. When loneliness is a gift Conclusion: reframing loneliness in a neoliberal age Further reading Appendix
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Oxford University Press A Case of Hysteria Dora Oxford Worlds Classics
Book SynopsisA Case of Hysteria reveals how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted their statements. A crucial text in the development of his theories, it is famous for its literary qualities, and the story of 'Dora' and her unhappy family is as dramatic as a modern novel. This new translation includes a fascinating introduction to the work.Trade ReviewDora remains shocking, infuriating, enthralling, and inspiring. It is an indispensable text for anyone wanting to get to grips with psychiatry. * The Lancet, Niall Boyce *
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The University of Chicago Press History of Religious Ideas Volume 3
Book SynopsisIn volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity - all are encompassed in this volume.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Dreamland of Humanists Warburg Cassirer Panofsky
Book SynopsisDeemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. This book considers not just the men but also the historical significance of the time and place where their ideas took form.
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The University of Chicago Press Geography and Enlightenment
Book SynopsisExplores the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From disciplinary perspectives, the text considers the ways in which the world of the 18th century was brought to view and shaped through map and text, and exploration and argument.
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Taylor & Francis Dialogism
Book SynopsisHolquist''s masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin''s known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography. He argues that Bakhtin''s work gains coherence through his commitment to the concept of dialogue, examining Bakhtin''s dialogues with theorists such as Saussure, Freud, Marx and Lukacs, as well as other thinkers whose connection with Bakhtin has previously been ignored.Dialogism also includes dialogic readings of major literary texts, Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein, Gogol''s The Notes of a Madman and Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby, which provide another dimension of dialogue with dialogue.Trade Review'Holquist is an exceedingly thoughtful interpreter of Bakhtin ... Dialogism will certainly be welcomed by all those many readers fascinated by the many faces of Mikhail Bakhtin.' - Slavic and East European Journal'With only two comprehensive accounts of Bakhtin's contributions available in the West ... Holquist's attempt to provide a contextualized summary of Bakhtin's work is a formidable accomplishment in its own right, resulting in a volume that will be of interest for those seeking a unified, general understanding of Bakhtin.' - Discourse Studies'Holquist is an exceedingly thoughtful interpreter of Bakhtin Dialogism will certainly be welcomed by all those many readers fascinated by the many faces of Mikhail Bakhtin.' - Slavic and East European Journal'With only two comprehensive accounts of Bakhtin's contributions available in the West ... Holquist's attempt to provide a contextualized summary of Bakhtin's work is a formidable accomplishment in its own right, resulting in a volume that will be of interest for those seeking a unified, general understanding of Bakhtin.' - Discourse StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface Introduction Introduction to the second edition 1. Bakhtin's life 2. Existence as dialogue 3. Language as dialogue 4. Novelness as dialogue: The novel of education and the education of the novel 5. The dialogue of history and poetics 6. Authoring as dialogue: The architectonics of answerability 7. The Heteroglossia Called Bakhtin Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Basic Books The Abandonment of the West
Book Synopsis This definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving. Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today, other ideas fill this role: on one side, a technocratic liberal international order, and on the other, the illiberal nationalism of America First. In The Abandonment of the West, historian Michael Kimmage shows how the West became the dominant idea in US foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century -- and how that consensus has unraveled. We must revive the West, he argues, to counter authoritarian challenges from Russia and China. This is an urgent portrait of modern America''s complicated origins, its emergence as a superpower, and the crossroads at which it now stands.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Utopia The History of an Idea
Book SynopsisA worldwide survey on the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction.Trade Review'Magisterial' - BBC History Magazine'Full and fast-moving' - Herald'Well-informed and penetrating' - Irish Catholic'This excellent survey of the utopian impulse … has one obvious lesson, dreaming of a better world is one thing, putting it into practice, quite another' - ChoiceTable of ContentsThe Search for Utopia • The Classical Age • Christian Archetypes • Extra-European Visions of the Ideal Society • Thomas More’s Utopia • Voyages of Discovery to the New World and Beyond • The Age of Defoe and Swift • Revolution and Enlightenment • Ideal Cities: Medieval to Modern • Utopia as Community: From Shakers to Hippies • Socialism, Communism and Anarchism • Rationalism, Technology and Modernity as Utopia • The Emergence of Science Fiction • Varieties of Dystopia: Totalitarianism and After • Utopia, Science Fiction and Film: The Final Frontier • Conclusion: Paradise Lost?
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Cambridge University Press Humes Philosophical Politics
Book SynopsisThis is a study of Hume's political thought based on a survey of all his writings and is presented in its historical context as an innovative, 'philosophical', empirically based system of politics for a radical post-revolutionary age, and a political education for parochial, backward-looking party men.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Mr Forbes succeeds admirably as Hume's philosophical politics is scrupulously analysed against the background of events and thought of his predecessors and contemporaries … Specialists in eighteenth-century English history and philosophy should welcome this addition to Hume scholarship and perhaps it may be regarded as a standard work …' HistoryTable of ContentsIntroductory preface; Abbreviations; Part I. The Foundations of Politics: 1. The experimental method in morals: the natural law forerunners; 2. A modern theory of Natural Law; 3. Political obligation for 'moderate men'; 4. Social experience and the uniformity of human nature; Part II. Philosophical Politics: 5. Scientific and vulgar Whiggism; 6. Applied philosophy, genuine and false: Hume and the Court and Country parties in 1741–1742; 7. The primacy of political institutions; Part III. Philosophical History: 8. The History of England: philosophical history as establishment history; 9. The limits of philosophical history; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Locke Two Treatises of Government Student edition
Book SynopsisA version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas. This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys advances in Locke scholarship.Table of ContentsForeword; Part I. Introduction: 1. The book; 2. Locke the man and Locke the writer; 3. Two Treatises of Government and the revolution of 1688; 4. Locke and Hobbes; 5. The social and political theory of Two Treatises of Government; 6. Addendum: the dating of the composition of Two Treatises; Editorial note; Part II. The Text: 7. Preface; 8. First treatise; 9. Second treatise; Suggested reading; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Kant Political Writings Cambridge Texts in the
Book SynopsisThe original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition, two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history are included for the first time: his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of The History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History; as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliography, and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since first publication.Trade Review"For new students of Kant's political philosophy, Reiss's new edition is very helpful in offering an accessible but thorough editorial introduction to Kant's political thought; a fairly comprehensive selection of Kant's political work; and an up-to-date, detailed bibliography." Canadian Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan purpose; 3. An answer to the question: 'what is enlightenment?'; 4. On the common saying: 'this may be true in theory, but it does not apply in practice'; 5. Perpetual peace: a philosophical sketch; 6. The metaphysics of morals; 7. The contest of faculties; 8. Appendix; 9. Reviews of Herder's ideas on the philosophy of the history of mankind; 10. Conjectures on the beginning of human history; 11. Introduction to what is orientation in thinking?; 12. What is orientation in thinking?; Notes to the text; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects.
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Cambridge University Press Thucydides The War of the Peloponnesians and the
Book SynopsisThucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. This new translation includes extensive reference material for non-specialists, including maps, glossaries, biographies, chronological charts, notes and an appendix of ancient sources in translation.Trade Review'Altogether, this edition in a crowded field offers many unique annotations complementing its fresh and accurate translation.' Donald Lateiner, Ancient History Bulletin'… an extremely useful edition for its re-situation of Thucydides in his own context, especially for the large numbers of readers of Thucydides in disciplines outside the classics. It is no small achievement to convey in modern English the literary qualities of this most political of ancient historians.' Liz Sawyer, Oxonian Review'…a fine addition to the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series … its excellent footnotes will make it a worthy [addition] to any reading list.' Benjamin Earley, The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of maps; Preface; Introduction; Principal dates; Biographical notes; Greek deities, heroes and mythological figures; Greek terms for distances, coinage and the calendar; The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; Appendix 1. Notes on the Greek text: variations from the OCT; Appendix 2. Thucydides in the ancient world: a selection of texts; Bibliography and further reading; Synopsis of contents; Synopsis of speeches; Glossary; Index of names; General index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Theory of Monetary Institutions
Book Synopsis* Covers free banking monetary thought in a clear, accessible manner* Offers an effective balance between theory and practical applications* Combines plain text with formal explanations* Discusses models such as Diamond--Dybvig and seigniorage. .Trade Review"The Theory of Monetary Institutions is a thorough and insightful treatment of the emergence and evolution of money and banking regimes. Professor White's brilliant exposition of alternative regimes is innovative and sheds a great deal of light upon the crucial features of contemporary money and banking institutions. This tour-de-force is a 'must-read'." Steve H. Hanke, The John Hopkins University "Larry White's The Theory of Monetary Institutions provides a very clear, extremely readable and up-to-date overview of monetary theory. White provides a uniquely insightful perspective into a difficult and controversial area, and his arguments and analysis are unbeatable. All monetary economists should read it." Kevin Dowd, University of Sheffield "White has written an academically rigorous text covering the theory of money, banking, and monetary policy. The text stands out from others in the way it describes the evolution of economists' thinking about monetary institutions. White excels in combining the historic with the contemporary, the abstract with the tangible, and the theoretical with the practical. The chapters on alternative monetary regimes will no doubt challenge many widely-held views about the proper role of government within an economy's monetary system." James A. Overdahl "Lawrence H. White has emerged as one of the most thoughtful monetary economists of his generation, and The Theory of Monetary Institutions fills an important lacuna in the literature. The book is mature and balanced; its encyclopedic knowledge of the literature covers a far broader range of material than conventional texts. I am aware of no other book that does such a superb job of placing institutional arrangements in theoretical and historical perspective." Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part 1: The Evolution of Market Monetary Institutions:. The Mystery of Money. Menger's Theory Restated. Some Implications of the Theory. From Simple Commodity Money to Coins. Bank-Issued Money. Regular Par Acceptance. Clearing Arrangements. The Path to Fiat Money. Spontaneous Separation Between the Media of Redemption and Account?. Questions. Part II: Commodity Money:. Determining the Price Level. The Simple Stock-Flow Analytics of Gold Supply and Demand. The Historical Sources of Gold Supply Disturbances. The Benefits of a Gold Standard. The Resource Costs of a Gold Standard. Is a Gold Standard Worth the Resource Cost?. Questions. Part III: Money Issue by Unrestricted Banks:. The Purchasing Power of Money. Bank Optimization and the Equilibrium Quantity of Bank-Issued Money. Correcting Over-Issue by an Individual Bank. Correcting Over-Issue by the System as a Whole. Responding to Shifts in Demand. Shifts Between Deposits and Currency. Questions. Part IV: The Evolution and Rationales of Central Banking:. Central Banking Roles and Clearinghouse Associations. The Origins of Government Central Banks. Historical Cases. Questions. Part V: Should Government Play a Role in Money?. Is Some Aspect of Money a Public Good?. Are There Relevant External Benefits in the Choice of Which Money to Use?. Are There Relevant External Benefits to the Choice of How Much Money to Hold?. iv. Is the Supply of Base Money a Natural Monopoly?. Questions. Part VI: Should Government Play a Role in Banking? . The Problem of Bank Runs. Inherent Vulnerability in Theory: The Diamond-Dybvig Model. The Fragility of the Diamond-Dybvig Bank: A Numerical Example. Deposit Insurance in the Diamond-Dybvig Model. Criticism of the Diamond-Dybvig Model. Are Deposit Contracts Inherently Fragile?. Historical Evidence on Inherent Vulnerability. Is There a Natural Monopoly in Bank-Issued Money?. Questions. Part VII: Seigniorage:. The Sources of Seigniorage. Maximizing the Take from Seigniorage. Reserve Requirements. Other Legal Restrictions. The Dynamics of Hyperinflation. The Transition Between Steady States: Is Honesty a Government's Best Policy?. How Well Does Seigniorage Explain Actual Governments' Behavior?. Questions. Appendix. Part VIII: Central Bank as Bureaucracy:. Bureaucratic Explanation of the Fed's Operating Procedures. Bureaucracy and "inflationary bias". Questions. Part IX: Political Business Cycle Hypotheses:. The Nordhaus-MacRae Model. The Rational Expectations Critique. An Alternative Formulation: Wagner's Political Seigniorage Cycle. The "Partisan" Political Business Cycle Theory. Questions. Part X: Discretion and Dynamic Inconsistency:. The Kydland-Prescott Model. Positive Implications: Using the Model to Explain Changes in Inflation. Policy Implications Under Discretion. Rules Versus Discretion. Subsequent Literature. Questions. Appendix. Part XI: Monetary Rules:. Benefits and Burdens of Counter-Cyclical Policy. Independence for the Central Bank. Arguments for Rules. Friedman's Proposals. McCallum's Case for a Feedback Rule. Simple Versus Complicated Rules. Questions. Part XII: Competitive Supply of Fiat-Type Money:. i. Klein's Model with Perfect Foresight. ii. Klein's Model with "Imperfect Foresight". Is the Equilibrium Rate of Inflation Bounded under Imperfect Foresight?. Conclusion. Questions. Part XIII: Cashless Competitive Payments and Legal Restrictions:. The Greenfield-Yeager Proposal. Is Bundles-Worth Redemption Workable?. Other Concerns About the GY Proposal. The Legal Restrictions Theory. Historical Evidence on the Non-Coexistence Prediction. Questions. References. Index.
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Princeton University Press Minds Wide Shut
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Behavioral Scientist's Notable Book""A sweeping study of the rise of rigid certainty in politics, economics and literature, and the threat it presents to democracy, which requires open-mindedness and compromise."---Bill Clinton, The Guardian"“Morson and Schapiro are surely right to point out that in recent years we have… seen new fundamentalisms generate solidarity through distrust, disinformation and angry resentment. Their book reminds us that we need to aspire to create communities open to learning, to conversation and to recognizing one's own errors. That's what we want, after all, from our campuses and from our democracy.” --Michael Roth, Wall Street Journal""Their argument on the whole is compelling, and one can only hope society listens to it."---Nat Brown, National Review"Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro are professors at Northwestern University in such disparate fields as Slavic languages and literatures and Economics. The book is a seamless fusion of their learning, observation, analysis, and wisdom. They are experienced collaborators and we are their beneficiaries. ... Defending politics and democracy is difficult although preferable to the alternatives. The same applies to other fields vulnerable to fundamentalism. Moderation is not easy, and thinking is strenuous. However, minds wide shut hurt more. ... Minds Wide Shut ... is solemnly and enthusiastically recommended."---Linda Quest, International Social Science Review"Minds Wide Shut issues a devastating indictment of the ideological extremism so characteristic of fundamentalism." * Chronicles *"Elegantly written, thought-provoking, and timely work, enhanced by dazzling references to literature, philosophy, theology and intellectual history. [The book] is to be recommended to all scholars, senior students and even seasoned general readers concerned by the regressive forces active across the political spectrum, forces that are antithetical to a healthy democratic society."---Karl W. Schweizer, The European Legacy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social History of Knowledge
Book SynopsisIn this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie.Trade Review'In Peter Burke's scholarly hands the notion of a social history of knowledge sheds its philosophical provocation and becomes judicious, prudent and historically rich. A beautifully written and accessible exercise in historical synthesis.' Steven Shapin, author of "A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England" (1994) and Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego 'Peter Burke is an exceptional historian: a polyglot, at home in a dozen languages; an intellectual, who is well versed in theoretical developments adjacent to history; a superb expositor, with the capacity to distil his findings in unpretentious and limpidly accessible prose; and an author of unflagging vitality, whose prolific studies in the cultural history of early modern Europe and in modern historiography constitute a formidable oeuvre ... He has succeeded in producing a balanced, judicious and highly stimulating work of synthesis. His book will be an indispensable starting point for years to come.' Keith Thomas, History Today 'Burke has made a significant contribution to cultural history ... [He] shows how knowledge was a form of exchange and how it became what we would recognize it as today. Burke's achievement in A Social History of Knowledge is to remind us that people in the past did not view knowledge in the same way as we do today.' HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Sociologies and Histories of Knowledge: an Introduction. 2. Professing Knowledge: the European Clerisy. 3. Establishing Knowledge: Institutions Old and New. 4. Locating Knowledge: Centres and Peripheries. Classifying Knowledge: Curricula, Libraries and Encyclopaedias. 6. Controlling Knowledge: Churches and States. 7. Selling Knowledge: the Market and the Press. 8. Acquiring Knowledge: The Reader's Share. 9. Trusting and Distrusting Knowledge; a Coda. Select Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Is Intellectual History
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Is the History of Knowledge
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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Cambridge University Press Diagnosing Social Pathology
Book SynopsisCan a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as ''ill'', or ''sick'', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a ''tradition'' deploy the idea of social pathology in comparable ways, and then explores the connections between societal illnesses and the phenomena those thinkers made famous: alienation, anomie, ideology, and social dysfunction. His book is a rich and compelling illumination of both the idea of social disease and the importance it has had, and continues to have, for philosophical views of society.Trade Review'The concept of 'social pathology' seems to be both indispensable to critical social theory and at the same time fraught with problems, as it may invoke illegitimately organicist, conservative conceptions of society. In this path-breaking new book, Frederick Neuhouser, with characteristic philosophical depth and rigor, provides the most potent analysis and defense of the legitimacy of the concept in social theory yet to have appeared.' Arash Abazari, Sharif University of Technology'Neuhouser's achievement in Diagnosing Social Pathology is an exceedingly rare one: it is at once a highly erudite examination of the ontological commitments underlying social theories of Hegel, Durkheim, and Marx (among others) that will be quite rewarding for anyone with a scholarly interest in those figures, while at the same time laying the groundwork for a thoroughly compelling and original method of social critique. This is a deeply fascinating work that will change the way its readers think about the possible modalities of social critique.' Todd Hedrick, Michigan State UniversityTable of Contents1. Can Societies Be Ill?; 2. Society as Organism?; 3. Marx: Pathologies of Capitalist Society; 4. Marx: Labor in Spiritual Life and Social Pathology; 5. Plato: Human Society as Organism; 6. Rousseau: Human Society as Artificial; 7. Durkheim's Predecessors: Comte and Spencer; 8. Durkheim: Functionalism; 9. Durkheim: Solidarity, Moral Facts, and Social Pathology; 10. Durkheim: A Science of Morality; 11. Hegelian Social Ontology I: Objective Spirit; 12. Hegelian Social Ontology II: The Living Good; 13. Hegelian Social Pathology; 14. Conclusion: On Social Ontology.
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Cambridge University Press Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas
Book SynopsisWhat would the history of ideas look like if we were able to read the entire archive of printed material of a historical period? This book explains how computational approaches to text mining can substantially increase the power of our understanding of ideas in history.
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Cambridge University Press Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisAnxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period yet, paradoxically, examples of openly-expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. This book offers a detailed analysis of three cases, and contrasts the real 'assurance' shown by such figures with the doubts expressed, often privately, by believers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Problem of 'Atheism' in Early Modern England; 3. Atheism among the Godly: The Covert History of Religious Doubt; 4. 'This degenerate Age… so miserably over-run with Scepticism and Infidelity': The Culture of Atheism after 1660; 5. 'Aikenhead the Atheist': The Context and Consequences of Articulate Irreligion in the late Seventeenth Century; 6. An Atheist Text by Archibald Pitcairne: Introduction to Pitcairneana; 7. The Text of Pitcairneana: Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Eng 1114; 8. The Trial of Tinkler Ducket: Atheism and Libertinism in Eighteenth-century England; Appendix; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political
Book SynopsisBetween the 1910s and the 1970s, an eclectic group of Indian thinkers, constitutional reformers, and political activists articulated a theory of robustly democratic, participatory popular sovereignty. Taking parliamentary government and the modern nation-state to be prone to corruption, these thinkers advocated for ambitious federalist projects of popular government as alternatives to liberal, representative democracy. Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought is the first study of this counter-tradition of democratic politics in South Asia. Examining well-known historical figures such as Dadabhai Naoroji, M. K. Gandhi, and M. N. Roy alongside long-neglected thinkers from the Indian socialist movement, Tejas Parasher illuminates the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire in South Asia. This book reframes the history of twentieth-century anti-colonialism in novel terms ? as a contest over the nature of modern political representation ? and pushes readers to rethink accepted understandings of democracy today.Table of Contents1. Popular sovereignty and the end of empire; 2. 'The genius of the people': The 1923 Constitution of Mysore; 3. 'A vast subterranean democracy': Pluralism in the 1920s; 4. 'A living union': The project of Gandhian democracy; 5. Representation, popular sovereignty, and the Indian founding; 6. 'Towards total revolution': the aftermath of independence; 7. Conclusion: The challenge of representative democracy; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Catharine Macaulay
Book SynopsisThe first modern scholarly edition of the published writings of historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay, who made a significant contribution to debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Influencing Wollstonecraft and proto-feminism, she wrote about education, the rights of women, and animal rights.Table of ContentsSelections from The History of England (1763–83); Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's 'Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society', with a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, in a Letter to Signor Paoli (1767); Observations on a Pamphlet entitled 'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770); A Modest Plea for the Property of Copy Right (1774); An Address to the People of England, Scotland and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs (1775); Selections from The History of England from the Revolution to the Present Time in a Series of Letters to a Friend (1778); Selections from Letters on Education, with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects (1790); Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France (1790).
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Cambridge University Press Kant on Social Suffering
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Islamic Ethics
Book SynopsisFundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fi?ra. Rooting her investigation in the two central passages in the Qur''an and Hadith literature, where it is asserted that God created human beings in a certain way, the author moves beyond discussion of the usual figures who have commented on those texts to look instead at a group of classical Islamic philosophers rarely discussed in conjunction with ethical matters. Tracing the development of fi?ra through this overlooked strand of medieval thinking, von Doetinchem de Rande uses fi?ra as an entrée to wider topics in Islamic ethics. She shows that the notion of fi?ra articulated by al-Farabi, Ibn Bajja, Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Rushd highlights important issues about organizational hierachies of human nature. This, she argues, has major implications for contemporary political and legal debates.
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Cambridge University Press A Users Guide to Melancholy
Book SynopsisA User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards sadness and fear but also delusion, despair, hilarity, and artistic creativity.Trade Review'I didn't think it possible for my favourite book to be summarised, and analysed, and explained so well. Mary Ann Lund has done Burton a great service, and us readers too, whether or not we've embarked on the wide and turbulent sea of his prose. What I found particularly enlightening was the author's examination of other texts, ancient and medieval and from Burton's own time, about this endlessly absorbing subject, and the perspective she reveals on the condition of melancholy from a modern viewpoint. Burton is inexhaustible and irreplaceable, of course, but this delightfully written and brilliantly informative guide is the best introduction to this great book I have ever seen. I hope it has a great success, and remains in print for four hundred years.' Philip Pullman'At last there is an accessible way into Robert Burton's labyrinthine masterpiece! Dr Lund has distilled all the wit, recondite learning and human empathy of The Anatomy of Melancholy into this wonderful guide.' Colin Gale, Bethlem Museum of the Mind'A truly fascinating historical journey through an extraordinary range of mental health experiences. Full of captivating descriptions, with Mary Ann Lund the perfect engaging and enlightening guide.' Daniel Freeman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Presenter of BBC Radio 4's A History of Delusions'A rich and fascinating tour through the territory of melancholy in seventeenth-century England and beyond. Lund provides an expert but very readable introduction to Burton's masterpiece, and her entertaining exploration of the cultural resonances of the Anatomy's medical, psychological, and literary subject matter also prompts us to think seriously about the lasting historical legacies of those who wrote about and struggled with melancholy in the past.' Angus Gowland, Reader in Intellectual History, University College London'In her superb new monograph about Burton's work, A User's Guide to Melancholy, Mary Ann Lund, a scholar of Renaissance literature, explains how melancholy has always had a span as wide as the mind's horizon.' Horatio Clare, UnHerd'At a time when challenges to mental health are severe and widespread, Mary Ann Lund is a welcome guide to a classic work on the subject.' Casper Henderson, The Spectator'A learned, broad and readable picture of Renaissance medicine.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian'A fine guide to a classic work.' Morning Star'Throughout, Lund's lucid prose brings Burton life for a new generation of readers and succeeds at imposing order on a most disorderly masterpiece.' Times Literary Supplement'The book's slim size and modest price could help make it a good choice for courses either in the history of medicine or literature. Instructors of senior seminars in English or history in particular might wish to discuss with students whether Lund's methodology could be applied to other primary sources, time periods, or geographical locales … Highly recommended.' A. K. Ackerberg-Hastings, Choice'Mary Ann Lund's A User's Guide to Melancholy gives Robert Burton's Anatomy a contemporary clarity that will make it a companion to his classic for years to come.' Timothy Barr, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Causes: 1. Sorrow and fear; 2. Body and mind; 3. The supernatural; Symptoms: 4. Delusions; 5. Love and sex; 6. Despair; Cures: 7. The non-naturals; 8. Medicine and surgery; 9. Lifting the spirits; Robert Burton, 'The Author's Abstract of Melancholy'; Conclusion: The Two Faces of Melancholy.
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Cambridge University Press Albert Venn Dicey
Book SynopsisWhat are the limits to parliamentary sovereignty? When should the people be able to vote directly on public issues? The constitutional theorist Albert Venn Dicey (18351922) was a cogent advocate of the referendum. This volume collects his writings on this theme for the first time, exploring their implications for our biggest debates today.Table of Contents1. The balance of classes (1867); 2. Democracy in Switzerland (1890); 3. Ought the referendum to be introduced into England? (1890); 4. The defence of the union (1892); 5. The referendum (1894); 6. Will the form of parliamentary government be permanent? (1899); 7. The referendum and its critics (1910); 8. The Parliament Act, 1911, and the destruction of all constitutional safeguards (1912); 9. Development during the last thirty years of new constitutional ideas (extract from the introduction to the eighth edition of introduction to the study of the law of the constitution, 1915).
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Cambridge University Press Womens International Thought Towards a New Canon
Book SynopsisThis first anthology of women''s international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to middle twentieth century. Revealing a major distortion in current understandings of the history and theory of international relations, this anthology offers an alternative ''archive'' of international thought. By including women as international thinkers it demonstrates their centrality to early international relations discourses in and on the Anglo-American world order and how they were excluded from its history and conceptualization. Encompassing 104 selections by 92 different thinkers, including Anna Julia Cooper, Margaret Sanger, Rosa Luxemburg, Judith Shklar, Hannah Arendt, Merze Tate, Susan Strange, Lucy P. Mair and Claudia Jones, it covers the widest possible range of subject matter, genres, ideological and political positions, and professional contexts. Organized into thirteen thematic sections, each with a substantial introductory essTrade Review'This majestic volume demands superlatives. It is not just the first anthology of women's international thought, and the largest anthology of international thought ever compiled: it is by far the most critical and original such collection and the one most likely to explode and re-order its field. A milestone achievement.' David Armitage, Harvard University'This groundbreaking and robust collection powerfully showcases the richness and complexity of women's international thought. It achieves the impressive feat of capturing women's diverse ideas on the most urgent issues of the past – and present. This anthology will transform how we write and think about intellectual history and international relations.' Keisha N. Blain, University of Pittsburgh'When is a discomforting challenge a gift? When it makes you rethink your assumptions in ways that excite you, invigorate you! This is precisely what Owens' and Reitzler's surprising history of international political thinking does. Having read this remarkable book, I now wonder why I've never realized that Black feminist Anna Julia Cooper was an international theorist or that Simone Weil's writings were so pertinent to today's international debates? Pulling back the curtain on these intellectual politics of exclusion is energizing.' Cynthia Enloe, Clark University'This extraordinary anthology has been a long time coming. A stellar team has brought us the evidence and confirmation of women's critical voices in the history of international thought. There are names we occasionally come across, and others that have been hidden from view for too long. This volume will change the history of international thought, it must.' Glenda Sluga, HEC European University Institute and University of Sydney'Within this edited volume, readers will discover representations of generations of women and people of colour who struggled in varied ways with discrimination and exclusion. The book is a valuable and stimulating pedagogic resource on the politics of knowledge production in IR.' Molly Cochran, International AffairsTable of ContentsPart I. Field and Discipline; Part II. Geopolitics and War; Part III. Imperialism; Part IV. Anticolonialism; Part V. International Law and Organization; Part VI. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy; Part VII. World Peace; Part VIII. World Economy; Part IX. Men, Women and Gender; Part X. Public Opinion and Education; Part XI. Population, Nation and Immigration; Part XII. Technology, Progress and the Environment; Part XIII. Religion and Ethics.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Work is Love Made Visible
Book SynopsisChannel happiness and find your purpose with stories from the world's leading minds Work is Love Made Visible offers the insights of some of the world's greatest thought leaders as they tackle one of life's most difficult treasure hunts: finding purpose. The word purpose is big. Very big. And heavy. It carries the weight of a lifetime of work and struggle; the weight of legacy, and the mass of days spent not doing something else. It's something we all grapple with at some pointsome of us find our purpose, others spend a lifetime searching. A lucky few grow to realize they've been working their purpose all along. Most of us aren't quite that lucky; often, fulfilling your purpose requires some kind of changecareer, lifestyle, habits, familyand what then? Are we selfish for the upheaval, or are we fulfilling destiny? Once we know our purpose, how do we pursue it? This book asked those very questions of people who have followed their purpTable of ContentsForeword Alan Mulally xv Preface xix Acknowledgments xxiii About the Editors xxv PART I Leadership Is a Matter of How to Be, Not How to Do 1 Chapter 1 My Journey with Peter Drucker 3Frances Hesselbein Chapter 2 The Evolution of Leadership – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 9Marshall Goldsmith Chapter 3 Leaders Who Become Organization Anthropologists 19ave Ulrich Chapter 4 Waves 27Whitney Johnson Chapter 5 Being a Good Leader 37Patrick Lencioni Chapter 6 Scaling Your Impact as a Leader 41Taavo Godtfredsen Chapter 7 In Search of Obsession 51Susan Scott PART II To Serve Is to Live 57 Chapter 8 A Call to Create Positive Change on a Global Scale 59Jim Yong Kim Chapter 9 Turning Defeat into Victory 65Margaret Heffernan Chapter 10 What I See from My Window 71Eric Schurenberg Chapter 11 Loving Work Despite the Odds: Secrets from Sir Richard Branson and Nelson Mandela 77Mark C. Thompson Chapter 12 The New Work of Leaders: How Does Your Leadership Narrative Show Up? 85Stephanie Pace Marshall Chapter 13 Choose, Build, Live High Expectations! 93Mel Spiese Chapter 14 Respect, Courage, Honesty: True Leadership Traits 103Jack Zenger PART III Defi ning Moments 107 Chapter 15 The Power of Accepting Feedback 109Hubert Joly Chapter 16 Discovering Motifs 115Rita McGrath Chapter 17 Is It Time to Leave Your Comfort Zone? 123Beverly Kaye Chapter 18 Understanding in Moments 129Catherine Carr Chapter 19 Brother, Can You Paradigm? 137Jeffrey Kuhn Chapter 20 Life Lessons from the Tennis Court 147Prakash Raman Chapter 21 The Need for Conscious Choice 155Margaret (Meg) Wheatley PART IV Be Ye an Opener of Doors 161 Chapter 22 The Elegance and Simplicity of Coaching 163Michael Bungay Stanier Chapter 23 The Gift of Belonging 169Garry Ridge Chapter 24 New Leader Development: Leadership Lessons from the Doerr Institute 181Brigadier General Tom Kolditz Chapter 25 The World’s Greatest Ophthalmologist 191Pawel Motyl Chapter 26 Don’t Just Let Culture Happen 199Alex Osterwalder Chapter 27 The Space Between Intention and Action 205Liz Wiseman PART V Bright Future! 213 Chapter 28 Be Positive! 215Frances Hesselbein Chapter 29 What Do People Do All Day? 221Sarah McArthur Chapter 30 What If There Were No Problems, Only Projects? 227David Allen Chapter 31 A Cheerleader at Heart 235Whitney Johnson Chapter 32 Silver Linings 241Asheesh Advani Chapter 33 Are You Happy at Work? (And Why It Matters) 247Annie McKee Index 255
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Cambridge University Press Caliphate and Imamate
Book SynopsisOne of the most enduring sources of conflict among Muslims is the question of power and authority after the Prophet Muhammad. This anthology of classical Arabic texts, presented in a new English translation, succinctly presents competing views on the prerequisites of legitimate leadership and authority in the Islamic tradition.Table of ContentsA Note on the Translation; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Glossary of Key Terms; 1. A Précis of the Doctrines of Abū 'l-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī Ibn Fūrak; 2. The Succour of Nations Amidst the Confusion of Darkness al-Juwaynī; 3. The Theoretical Underpinning of the Imamate Abū Ṭālib al-Hārūnī; 4. The Curative Book on the Imamate: A Paraphrastic Rendering al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī; 5. The Book of Excellence on the Fundamental Principles of Religion Ibn al-Malāḥimī; 6. The concise ʿAbd al-Kāfī al-Warjalānī; 7. The Crown of Doctrines and the Mine of Instructive Points al-Dāʿī Ibn al-Walīd; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Political Imaginaries in TwentiethCentury India
Book SynopsisThis volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th century India. Representing the first attempt to grasp the shifting modes and meanings of the political' in India, this book explores forms of mass protest, radical women's politics, civil rights, democracy, national wealth and mobilization against the indentured-labor system, amongst other themes. In linking the political' to shifts in historical temporality, Political Imaginaries in 20th century India extends beyond the interdisciplinary arena of South Asian studies to cognate late colonial and post-colonial formations in the twenTrade ReviewThis is an exciting and wide-ranging collection of scholarship on Indian politics that explores fresh territory in the twentieth century and opens up new possibilities for understanding this transformational era in India and the world. * Taylor C. Sherman, Associate Professor, Department of History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK *An outstanding collection of essays that powerfully illuminates the multiple and shifting meanings of the political through an imaginative, rigorous and inter-disciplinary exploration of the idea of the political imaginary in 20th century India. * Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor in Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK *An urgent and necessary project, this volume defines and rethinks 'the political.' Comprised of essays by some of the smartest theorists, historians, and scholars of India, it elaborates how we might imagine new political futures and imaginaries that offer radical and revolutionary possibilities. * Durba Ghosh, Professor of History, Cornell University, U.S.A. *Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, this timely volume retells the history of the 20th century by placing decolonization at its centre. Speaking of/from India, it offers a globally salient rethinking of democracy, economy, citizenship, statistics, political symbols and radical dissent. A must read for historians, political philosophers, anthropologists and theorists of the contemporary. * Prathama Banerjee, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, India *This represents the cutting edge of scholarship on political life modern India. Guided by the strong editorial vision of Manu Goswami and Mrinalini Sinha, this stellar, diverse collection of authors bridges regions, languages, and archives to illuminate the breadth of political imaginaries that have shaped modern India, with reverberations across the Global South. This a vital book, which will appeal widely across fields and disciplines * Sunil Amrith, Professor of History, Yale University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Political Imaginaries: A programme for Twentieth Century Political History, Manu Goswami and Mrinalini Sinha (New York University, USA and University of Michigan, USA) Genealogies of the Political 2. The Political in Question: Anatomy of a People’s Politics, Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan, USA) 3. Mass Satyagraha and the Problem of Collective Power, Karuna Mantena (Columbia University, USA) 4. Conspicuous Communism: Rethinking Early Communism in Late Imperial India, Manu Goswami (New York University, USA) 5. National Wealth or National Poverty? The Politics of Measurement in Late Colonial India, Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS University of London, UK) 6. Law and the Political Imaginary in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern India, Kalyani Ramnath (Princeton University, USA) 7. Remembering the Emergency and the Question of Politics, Mary John (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi, India) Recalling Democracy 8. Radicalizing Democracies in India: Three Political Imaginaries, Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University, USA) 9. Institutionalizing Democratic Uncertainties: ‘Election Time’ in the Life of Indian Democracy, Anupama Roy & Ujjwal Kumar Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 10. Voting and the Visual: Electoral Symbols, Legal Discourse, & the Sovereign People, David Gilmartin (North Carolina State University, USA) 11. Representations of Electoral Politics: Notes on the Conceptual Power of the ‘Vote Bank’, Satish Deshpande (Delhi University, India) 12. Dispossession and Democracy: The Land Acquisition Act and the Future of India’s Land Wars, Michael Levien (John Hopkins University, USA) 13. Democracy and the Moment of the Political, Aditya Nigam (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi, India) Afterword
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Manchester University Press Post-Everything: An Intellectual History of
Book SynopsisPostmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the ‘post boys’ responsible for this?Post-everything examines why post-Christian, post-industrial and post-bourgeois were terms that resonated, not only among academics, but also in the popular press. It delves into the historical roots of postmodern and poststructuralist, while also subjecting more recent post-constructions (posthumanist, postfeminist) to critical scrutiny.This study is the first to offer a comprehensive history of post-concepts. In tracing how these concepts found their way into a broad range of genres and disciplines, Post-everything contributes to a rapprochement between the history of the humanities and the history of the social sciences.Table of ContentsIntroduction: post-concepts in historical perspective – Herman PaulPart I: The emergence of a prefix (1930s–60s)1 ‘Our post-Christian age’: historicist-inspired diagnoses of modernity, 1935–70 – Herman Paul2 The post-secular in post-war American religious history – K. Healan Gaston3 Defining the old, creating the new: post-ideology and the politics of periodisation – Adriaan van Veldhuizen4 The death and rebirth of ‘postcapitalist society’ – Howard BrickPart II: Post rising to prominence (1970s–90s)5 Post-Keynesian: a rare example of a post-concept in economics – Roger E. Backhouse6 Lost in the post: (post-)structuralism between France and the United States – Edward Baring7 The ‘post’ in literary postmodernism: a history – Hans Bertens8 From political reference to self-narration: ‘postcolonial’ as periodiser – Andrew Sartori9 The tradition of post-tradition – Stephen TurnerPart III: Contemporary post-constructions (2000s–present)10 Busting the ‘post’? Postfeminist genealogies in millennial culture – Stéphanie Genz11 Posthumanism and the ‘posterising impulse’ – Yolande Jansen, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp and Leire UrricelquiEpilogue: lessons for future posts – Adriaan van VeldhuizenIndex
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Manchester University Press Marxism and America: New Appraisals
Book SynopsisIn Marxism and America, an accomplished group of scholars reconsiders the relationship of the United States to the theoretical tradition derived from Karl Marx.In brand new essays that cover the period from the nineteenth century, when Marx wrote for American newspapers, to the present, when a millennial socialism has emerged inspired by the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders, the contributors take up topics ranging from memory of the Civil War to feminist debates over sexuality and pornography. Along the way, they clarify the relationship of race and democracy, the promise and perils of the American political tradition and the prospects for class politics today.Marxism and America sheds new light on old questions, helping to explain why socialism has been so difficult to establish in the United States even as it has exerted a notable influence in American thought.Trade Review'Full of spirited and cogent arguments, prodigiously researched and vivaciously told, Marxism and America is tailor-made for activists and scholars of the present moment.' Alan Wald, University of Michigan'At last, a collection on Marxism in the United States that pays serious attention to women, sexuality and feminism.' Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University 'A talented group of writers. Anyone interested in understanding the past and present of the left in the United States — from Eugene Debs to W. E. B. Du Bois through AOC and Bernie Sanders — should read this book!' Bhaskar Sunkara, editor, Jacobin ‘This insightful, compelling collection shines fresh light on the vital importance of the American experience to understanding Marxist thought, as well as the value of Marxian analysis to understanding the history and social movements of the United States.’ Jonathan Bell, UCL'Filled with surprising insights, these beautifully researched essays on a wide range of topics demonstrate the importance and the diversity of Marxist-inspired politics and ideas in American history. At a moment of resurgence for the left, they are a wonderful resource.' Kimberly Phillips-Fein, New York University -- .Table of ContentsPreface – Nelson LichtensteinIntroduction: the Marx–America dialectic – Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome1 The blue and the gray and the red: Marxism and Civil War memory – Matthew E. Stanley 2 “What is the correct revolutionary proletarian attitude toward sex?”: red love and the Americanization of Marx in the interwar years – Jesse F. Battan3 Marxism and Americanism: A. J. Muste, Louis Budenz, and an “American approach” before the Popular Front – Leilah Danielson4 Women, the family, and sexuality in U.S. Communist Party publications: refashioning Marxism for the Popular Front era – Jodie Collins5 Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War – Andrew Hartman6 Black Marxism off the color line: W. E. B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as democratic theorists – Paul M. Heideman7 “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, and the Weather Underground – Sinead McEneaney8 A people’s history of Howard Zinn: radical popular history and its readers – Nick Witham9 Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s – Mara Keire10 Will the revolution be podcast? Marxism and the culture of “millennial socialism” in the United States – Tim Jelfs11 Does the American experience refute Marxism? – Kim MoodyIndex
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Manchester University Press The Derby Philosophers
Book SynopsisThis book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of political and industrial revolution in which the Derby philosophers were closely involved. -- .
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Manchester University Press Marxism and America: New Appraisals
Book SynopsisIn Marxism and America, an accomplished group of scholars reconsiders the relationship of the United States to the theoretical tradition derived from Karl Marx.In brand new essays that cover the period from the nineteenth century, when Marx wrote for American newspapers, to the present, when a millennial socialism has emerged inspired by the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders, the contributors take up topics ranging from memory of the Civil War to feminist debates over sexuality and pornography. Along the way, they clarify the relationship of race and democracy, the promise and perils of the American political tradition and the prospects for class politics today.Marxism and America sheds new light on old questions, helping to explain why socialism has been so difficult to establish in the United States even as it has exerted a notable influence in American thought.Trade Review'Full of spirited and cogent arguments, prodigiously researched and vivaciously told, Marxism and America is tailor-made for activists and scholars of the present moment.' Alan Wald, University of Michigan'At last, a collection on Marxism in the United States that pays serious attention to women, sexuality and feminism.' Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University 'A talented group of writers. Anyone interested in understanding the past and present of the left in the United States — from Eugene Debs to W. E. B. Du Bois through AOC and Bernie Sanders — should read this book!' Bhaskar Sunkara, editor, Jacobin ‘This insightful, compelling collection shines fresh light on the vital importance of the American experience to understanding Marxist thought, as well as the value of Marxian analysis to understanding the history and social movements of the United States.’ Jonathan Bell, UCL'Filled with surprising insights, these beautifully researched essays on a wide range of topics demonstrate the importance and the diversity of Marxist-inspired politics and ideas in American history. At a moment of resurgence for the left, they are a wonderful resource.' Kimberly Phillips-Fein, New York University -- .Table of ContentsPreface – Nelson LichtensteinIntroduction: the Marx–America dialectic – Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome1 The blue and the gray and the red: Marxism and Civil War memory – Matthew E. Stanley 2 “What is the correct revolutionary proletarian attitude toward sex?”: red love and the Americanization of Marx in the interwar years – Jesse F. Battan3 Marxism and Americanism: A. J. Muste, Louis Budenz, and an “American approach” before the Popular Front – Leilah Danielson4 Women, the family, and sexuality in U.S. Communist Party publications: refashioning Marxism for the Popular Front era – Jodie Collins5 Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War – Andrew Hartman6 Black Marxism off the color line: W. E. B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as democratic theorists – Paul M. Heideman7 “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, and the Weather Underground – Sinead McEneaney8 A people’s history of Howard Zinn: radical popular history and its readers – Nick Witham9 Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s – Mara Keire10 Will the revolution be podcast? Marxism and the culture of “millennial socialism” in the United States – Tim Jelfs11 Does the American experience refute Marxism? – Kim MoodyIndex
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Hodder & Stoughton Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci
Book Synopsis'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here'GUARDIAN'A fast-moving train of a book'NEW YORK TIMES'Gripping'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Funny, startling . . . a must read'PETER POMERANTSEV, author of This Is Not Propaganda'Revelatory'FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, author of The Origins of Political OrderAs the forces of social media and capitalism collide, cultivating our 'personal brands' has become the norm. But this phenomenon is not new: Instagram culture is part of a story that goes back centuries. From the Renaissance genius to the Regency dandy, Hollywood's Golden Age to today's Silicon Valley and reality TV stars, Self-Made takes us on a dazzling tour of modern history's most prominent self-makers, uncovering both self-making's liberatory power, and the dangers this idea can unleash.Trade ReviewA fun, insightful romp . . . we're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here -- Rachel Aspden * Guardian *A fast-moving train of a book . . . Burton is a confident conductor * New York Times *Throughout her gripping account Burton homes in on the tensions at the heart of all self-making acts: between authenticity and artificiality, and between the self that is given and the self that is desired * Times Literary Supplement *This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Dürer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you want to understand how we reinvent ourselves every time we reveal ourselves -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against RealitySelf-Made takes the reader on an incredible journey that begins in the Renaissance and ends with the Kardashians, Donald Trump, and Silicon Valley's extropians, tracing the peculiarly modern phenomenon of people who make themselves the objects of their life's work. It is both revelatory and a warning about the ways that focus on the self distorts our individual lives and the broader society -- Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political OrderTara Isabella Burton's thoughtful, beautifully written book charts the engrossing history of the self-made man (and woman) from the geniuses of the Renaissance to present-day reality TV stars. Philosophical, ethical and pragmatic by turns, Burton urgently interrogates the culturally dominant myths of individualism and self-realisation, asking what we lose when we gain what we think we really want: when we make ourselves into gods -- Carolyne Larrington, author of The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and HeroesBurton is that rare cultural critic who delivers insight with sass and wears her deep knowledge of history and philosophy with a lightness and grace. A dazzling cast of characters struts across these pages, but Burton is always fully in control; every case study and example accretes to build her argument, for we are not merely self-stylists but shapeshifters, not just makers, but gods -- Marina Benjamin, author of InsomniaRanging from Aristotle to OnlyFans by way of the Marquis de Sade and Frederick Douglass, Tara Isabella Burton delights, infuriates and instructs while offering some of the sharpest and most insightful social commentary being written today. This is a book you will not forget -- Walter Russell Mead, author of The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish PeopleLooking around at the strange terrain of American politics, religion, culture, and media, almost everyone is asking, "What happened?" and "What's next?" This book tells us the story behind those questions. Those who wonder why almost every aspect of life seems to be, at best, a reality television series and, at worst, a dark science fiction drama, will need this important work. This book will shift the conversation, at perhaps just the right time -- Russell Moore, author of Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical AmericaWhat does the Marquis de Sade have to do with David Bowie? Oscar Wilde with Oprah Winfrey? Montaigne with Donald Trump? Learn the fascinating historical and philosophical connections over the past five centuries in this erudite and wildly entertaining study on the fine art of self-creation, one of the modern era's defining cultural traits long before Instagram made it a daily universal habit -- Tony Perrottet, author of The Sinner’s Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of EuropeIn the spirit of Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland and Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright Sided, Tara Isabella Burton delivers a fascinating intellectual and cultural history of our never-ending quest to reinvent ourselves. She masterfully balances high and low culture, ranging from Renaissance sculptors and Parisian Dandies, to American hucksters and Instagram selfies. Self-Made clears through the fog of our current moment and lets us see the methods behind our collective madness. An essential read for our era of Late-Stage Everything -- Jamie Wheal, author of Recapture the RaptureSince the rise of Instagram and Facebook, how we present ourselves to the world has become a contemporary obsession. But as Tara Isabella Burton shows in her new book, Self-Made, it has a long history, from Beau Brummel to the Kardashians. The result is a fascinating, deeply researched and entertaining tour de force -- Simon Worrall, author of Starcrossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s ParisWide-ranging . . . With clarity and authority, Burton sheds light on how the self-made indulge in the profitable "fantasy of selling yourself" and provide an escape from reality for their followers. It's an eye-opener * Publishers Weekly *Burton concludes that our search for self-definition is ultimately a search for what it means to be human: vulnerable and inextricably interconnected. A thoughtful, well-grounded cultural history * Kirkus *It's a remarkable journey we humans have been on . . . The heights of self-aggrandisement Burton encounters are dizzying . . . she does not condemn outright the modern urge for self-expression. Bounding from one historical anecdote to the next, she reveals the human ingenuity that is unleashed when God's plan for us is taken out of the equation -- Rachel Cunliffe * New Statesman *Burton is right and brave to surmise that hollow self-making offers the wrong kind of answers to the modern bourgeois or digital peasant who wants to live a happy or meaningful life * Wall Street Journal *
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