History of ideas Books
Oxford University Press Critical International Theory
Book SynopsisWhether inspired by the Frankfurt School or Antonio Gramsci, the impact of critical theory on the study of international relations has grown considerably since its advent in the early 1980s. This book offers the first intellectual history of critical international theory. Richard Devetak approaches this history by locating its emergence in the rising prestige of theory and the theoretical persona. As theory''s prestige rose in the discipline of international relations it opened the way for normative and metatheoretical reconsiderations of the discipline and the world. The book traces the lines of intellectual inheritance through the Frankfurt School to the Enlightenment, German idealism, and historical materialism, to reveal the construction of a particular kind of intellectual persona: the critical international theorist who has mastered reflexive, dialectical forms of social philosophy. . In addition to the extensive treatment of critical theory''s reception and development in internTrade ReviewTo think ethically is ... to think politically; while to think politically is also to think ethically. The beauty of Devetak's Critical International Theory is the clarity with which it demonstrates that the ways in which we think about international relations both are implicated in and contribute to these practices. * Cian O'Driscoll, EIA (Ethics & International Affairs), 34, No. 4 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: International Relations before Critical Theory: Methodenstreit and the Rise of Theory 2: Revisiting the Sources of Critical International Theory 3: International Relations meets Critical Theory 4: Critique and Crisis: Critical International Theory Today 5: Critical International Theory in Historical Mode Conclusion: Reorienting Critical International Theory
£46.07
Clarendon Press David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature
Book SynopsisDavid and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains the critical text of David Hume''s Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740) in which Hume set out the key arguments of the larger work; the volume concludes with A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh (1745), Hume''s defence of the Treatise when it was under attack from ministers seeking to prevent Hume''s appointment as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.Trade Review...useful far beyond the small circle of scholarly experts... The Treatise has a fair claim to be the most important and influential philosophical text ever written in English... After more than 250 years, Hume is still at the front line of philosophical inquiry... This edition belongs in any university or college library anywhere in the world, and its publication will certainly excite more than a murmur among philosophers and scholars. * Robert Callergård, Theoria *Table of ContentsA Note on the Texts ; Contents of A Treatise of Human Nature ; A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE ; An Abstract of ... A Treatise of Human Nature ; A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh
£127.50
Oxford University Press Enlightenment Contested
Book SynopsisJonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. Israel traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment, and the bitter struggle between on the one hand a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and ''materialist'' radical fringTrade ReviewThe core ideas of this book deserve to be widely disseminated and debated.Review from previous edition Enter Jonathan Israel. His vast - and vastly impressive - book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. The stupendous scale of this book ranges from London to Moscow, Stockholm to Naples, in a virtuoso display of polyglot learning . . . Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade. * John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph *There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it. * A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend *The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbed every nuance, followed up every byway ... Five years from now, our views of the Enlightenment will have been enormously influenced by Israel. * Peter Watson, New Statesman *Deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history * David Horspool, The Guardian *Table of ContentsI: INTRODUCTORY ; 1. Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age ; 2. Philosophy and the Making of Modernity ; II: THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY ; 3. Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux ; 4. Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern ; 5. Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of Enlightenment ; 6. Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines ; 7. Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities ; 8. Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science, Philosophy, and Religion ; III: POLITICAL EMANCIPATION ; 9. Anit-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity' ; 10. The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism ; 11. Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the Aristocratic Republic ; 12. 'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 1689-1755 ; 13. Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution' ; 14. Anglomania, anglicisme, and the 'British Model' ; 15. The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces ; IV: INTELLECTUAL EMANCIPATION ; 16. The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism ; 17. The Recovery of Greek Thought ; 18. The Rise of 'History of Philosophy' ; 19. From 'History of Philosophy' to Histoire de l'Esprit humain ; 20. Italy, the Two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'New Science' ; V: THE PARTY OF HUMANITY ; 21. The Problem of Equality ; 22. Sex, Marriage, and the Equality of Women ; 23. Race, Radical Thought, and the Advent of Anti-Colonialism ; 24. Rethinking Islam: Philosophy and the 'Other' ; 25. Spinoza, Confucius, and Classical Chinese Philosophy ; 26. Is Religion Requisite for a Well-Ordered Society? ; VI: RADICAL PHILOSOPHES ; 27. The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques (1734) ; 28. Men, Animals, Fossils: French Hylozoic materialisme before Diderot ; 29. Realigning of the parti philosophique: Voltair, Voltairemanie, antivoltairianisme 1733-1747 ; 30. From Voltaire to Diderot ; 31. The 'Unvirtuous Atheist' ; 32. The parti philosophique Embraces the Radical Enlightenment 1747-1752 ; 33. The 'War of the Encyclopedie: The First Stage 1745-1752 ; 34. Postscript ; Bibliography ; Index
£74.00
Clarendon Press Spinoza and Spinozism
Book SynopsisStuart Hampshire, one of the most eminent British philosophers of the twentieth century, will be perhaps best remembered for his work on the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, all of which is gathered now in this volume. Among the great thinkers of modern times, only Spinoza created a complete system of philosophy that rivals Plato''s. Few other thinkers have felt so strongly ''the desire to have a unitary view of the world and of man''s place within it'' - a desire that led Spinoza to make crucial contributions to every major philosophical topic: the nature of knowledge and freedom, the existence of God, ethics and politics, mind and matter, pleasure and perception. Hampshire''s classic 1951 introductory book Spinoza pioneered the revival of interest in him in the English-speaking world. It remains the best introduction, and it is reprinted here in its revised edition. But what gives particular interest to this new volume is the first publication of Hampshire''s last work ''SpinTrade ReviewReview from previous edition still widely considered the best introduction to Spinoza * The Guardian *Table of ContentsSpinoza and Spinozism ; Spinoza ; Spinoza and the Idea of Freedom
£53.20
Clarendon Press Fin de Siècle Beirut
Book SynopsisPostwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab cosmopolitanism and cultural effervescence but also for its tragedies of destruction. This book examines the historical formation of Beirut as a multiply contested Mediterranean city.Fin de Siècle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature in Ottoman studies, in Arab cultural history and on Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory, particularly Henri Lefebvre''s work on cities and capitalism, with postcolonial methodology, the central thesis of this book is that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. The city of Beirut was at once the product, the object, and the project of imperial and urban politics of difference: overlapping European, Ottoman, and municipal civilising missions competed in the political fields of administraTrade ReviewThis is a fundamental work, based on research in Archives in Istanbul, Paris and Kew as well as extensive readings of newspapers, books and unpublished theses. * Philip Mansel, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPART I: CAPITALIZATIONS; PART II: MEDIATIONS; PART III: URBAN WORDS - URBAN WORLDS
£182.50
Oxford University Press Kants Critique of Spinoza
Book SynopsisContemporary philosophers frequently assume that Kant never seriously engaged with Spinoza or Spinozism-certainly not before the break of Der Pantheismusstreit, or within the Critique of Pure Reason. Offering an alternative reading of key pre-critical texts and to some of the Critique''s most central chapters, Omri Boehm challenges this common assumption. He argues that Kant not only is committed to Spinozism in early essays such as The One Possible Basis and New Elucidation, but also takes up Spinozist metaphysics as Transcendental Realism''s most consistent form in the Critique of Pure Reason. The success -- or failure -- of Kant''s critical projects must be evaluated in this light. Boehm here examines The Antinomies alongside Spinoza''s Substance Monism and his theory of freedom. Similarly, he analyzes the refutation of the Ontological Argument in parallel with Spinoza''s Causa-sui. More generally, Boehm places the Critique of Pure Reason''s separation of Thought from Being and Is fTrade ReviewOmri Boehm offers a lucid and incisive defence, supported by careful scholarship, of the compelling idea that preoccupation with Spinozaappreciation of the force of Spinoza's reasoning along with a concern to avoid his drastic conclusionsis at the heart of Kants philosophical enterprise. I have learned a great deal from Boehm's fascinating study, and its excellence will be clearly visible to anyone who has pursued the question of what the Critique of Pure Reason is aiming to achieve. * Sebastian Gardner, Critique *An avalanche of important work has been done recently on Spinoza as well as on Kant, but no one has considered their philosophical relationship in extensive detail in the way that Omri Boehm does here. In addition to offering challenging original treatments of the concept of God and the Pantheism Controversy, a unique contribution of this volume is its systematic analysis of the relation of Spinoza's arguments to Kant's complex First and Third Antinomies. These chapters alone make the book required reading now for anyone concerned with the central themes of modern philosophy. * Karl Ameriks, McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; 1. The One Possible Basis: The Ideal of Pure Reason and Kant's Regulative Spinozism ; 2. The First Antinomy and Spinoza ; 3. The Third Antinomy and Spinoza ; 4. The Causa Sui and the Ontological Argument, or The Principle of Sufficient Reason and The Is-Ought Distinction ; 5. Radical Enlightenment, the Pantheismusstreit, and a Change of Tone in the Critique of Pure Reason ; Bibliography ; Acknowledgements
£87.40
Oxford University Press Schiller as Philosopher
Book SynopsisFred Beiser, renowned as one of the world''s leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that Schiller''s engagement with Kant is far more subtle and rewarding than is often portrayed. Promising to be a landmark in the study of German thought, Schiller as Philosopher will be compulsory reading for any philosopher, historian, or literary scholar engaged with the key developments of this fertile period.Trade Review...Beiser's championing of Schiller as a philosopher puts much other critical literature to shame. Its perspicacity and its lucidity are very welcome. * Paul Bishop Seminar *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Early Philosophy ; 2. An Objective Aesthetic ; 3. Grace and Dignity ; 4. Argument and Context of the Asthetische Briefe ; 5. Dispute with Kant ; 6. Autonomy versus Enlightenment ; 7. The Philosophy of Freedom ; 8. Theory of Tragedy ; Appendix 1: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Schiller's Essays ; Appendix 2: The Neo-Kantian Interpretation of Schiller ; Bibliography ; Index
£44.64
Oxford University Press Enlightenment Contested
Book SynopsisJonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. Israel traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment, and the bitter struggle between on the one hand a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and ''materialist'' radical fringTrade ReviewReview from previous edition 'Brilliantly presented and dense with learning.' * - Simon Blackburn, THES *'An enormously impressive piece of scholarship. The breadth and depth of the author's reading are breathtaking and Enlightenment Contested is set to become the definitive work for philosophers as well as historians on this extraordinary period.' * - Keith Richmond, Tribune *'Mr Israel's groundbreaking interpretation looks set to establish itself as the one to beat.' * - The Economist *'Evocative and compelling.' * - John Dunn, Literary Review *'Enlightenment Contested is full of wonderful things' * - John Dunn, Literary Review *Table of ContentsI: INTRODUCTORY ; 1. Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age ; 2. Philosophy and the Making of Modernity ; II: THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY ; 3. Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux ; 4. Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern ; 5. Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of Enlightenment ; 6. Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines ; 7. Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities ; 8. Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science, Philosophy, and Religion ; III: POLITICAL EMANCIPATION ; 9. Anit-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity' ; 10. The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism ; 11. Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the Aristocratic Republic ; 12. 'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 1689-1755 ; 13. Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution' ; 14. Anglomania, anglicisme, and the 'British Model' ; 15. The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces ; IV: INTELLECTUAL EMANCIPATION ; 16. The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism ; 17. The Recovery of Greek Thought ; 18. The Rise of 'History of Philosophy' ; 19. From 'History of Philosophy' to Histoire de l'Esprit humain ; 20. Italy, the Two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'New Science' ; V: THE PARTY OF HUMANITY ; 21. The Problem of Equality ; 22. Sex, Marriage, and the Equality of Women ; 23. Race, Radical Thought, and the Advent of Anti-Colonialism ; 24. Rethinking Islam: Philosophy and the 'Other' ; 25. Spinoza, Confucius, and Classical Chinese Philosophy ; 26. Is Religion Requisite for a Well-Ordered Society? ; VI: RADICAL PHILOSOPHES ; 27. The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques (1734) ; 28. Men, Animals, Fossils: French Hylozoic materialisme before Diderot ; 29. Realigning of the parti philosophique: Voltair, Voltairemanie, antivoltairianisme 1733-1747 ; 30. From Voltaire to Diderot ; 31. The 'Unvirtuous Atheist' ; 32. The parti philosophique Embraces the Radical Enlightenment 1747-1752 ; 33. The 'War of the Encyclopedie: The First Stage 1745-1752 ; 34. Postscript ; Bibliography ; Index
£63.65
Oxford University Press Common Reading Critics Historians Publics
Book SynopsisA series of essays exploring aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, focussing on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership.Trade ReviewCollini is the reviewer par excellence of our age. * David Stack, English Historical Review. *These chapters are erudite, beautifully written, and impressive in their historical breadth. * English *Collini...writes with lively wit and insight. Penetrating, down-to-earth, often hilarious, these essays are perfect brain food * Christopher Hirst, The Independent *The chapters are erudite, beautifully written, and impressive in their historical breadth... this book... represents clear proof that had he written nothing else, Collini would still be one of the few academics reviewing today whose work deserves reprinting in collected form. * Mary Hammond, English *Books do furnish a mind, and in a form that bailiffs cannot repossess. Collini is that rare bird, a don who can be read with pleasure by the non-specialist reader, to whom this book is addressed. * Michael Barber, Books of the Year, The Tablet *Table of ContentsPART ONE: WRITING LIVES ; 1. On not getting on with it: the criticism of Cyril Connolly ; 2. Rolling it out: V. S. Pritchett's writing life ; 3. The Great Seer: Aldous Huxley's visions ; 4. Performance: the critical authority of Rebecca West ; 5. Man of letters as hero: the energy of Edmund Wilson ; 6. Plain speaking: the lives of George Orwell ; 7. Believing in oneself: the career of Stephen Spender ; 8. Smacking: the letters of William Empson ; 9. Disappointment: A. L. Rowse in his diaries ; 10. Believing in England: Arthur Bryant, historian as man of letters ; 11. Believing in history: Herbert Butterfield, Christian and Whig ; 12. The intellectual as realist: the puzzling career of E. H. Carr ; 13. Enduring passion: E. H. Thompson's reputation ; 14. Olympian universalism: Perry Anderson as essayist ; 15. Hegel in green wellies: Roger Scruton's England ; PART TWO: READING MATTERS ; 16. 'The Great Age': the idealizing of Victorian culture ; 17. Always dying: the idea of the general periodical ; 18. Boomster and the Quack: the author as celebrity ; 19. Private reading: the autodidact public ; 20. The completest mode: the literary critic as hero ; 21. From deference to diversity: 'culture' in Britain 1945-2000 ; 22. Well connected: biography and intellectual elites ; 23. National lives: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ; 24. HiEdBiz: universities and their publics ; References ; Acknowledgements ; Index
£34.19
Oxford University Press Rousseau
Book SynopsisRousseau forcefully describes the ideal of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. Joshua Cohen explores this ideal, explaining why Rousseau thought that it was possible for human beings to live in such a society, and discussing the enduring importance of his political ideas.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. A Free Community of Equals? ; 2. The Society of the General Will ; 3. Reflections on the General Will's Sovereignty ; 4. The Natural Goodness of Humanity ; 5. Democracy
£35.62
Oxford University Press Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Book SynopsisGermany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that this was a long period of decline, and shows instead how imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, notably the Reformation and Thirty Years War. The impact of international developments on the Reich is also examined.The first volume begins with an account of the reforms of the reign of Maximilian I and concludes with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. It offers a new interpretation of the Reformation, the Peasants'' War, the Schmalkaldic War and the Peace of Augsburg, and of the post-Reformation development of Protestantism and Catholicism. The German policy successfully resisted the ambitions of Charles V and the repeated onslaughtsof both the Ottomans and the French, and it remTrade ReviewReview from previous edition scholars ... will concur in their debt to Whaley's magnum opus ... [it] stands apart as the most authoritative account of the early modern empire * C. Ingrao, CHOICE *a monumental history of the Holy Roman Empire which far surpasses everything that has been written about the subject to date. German history between the Reformation and Napoleon has never been written in such a lively, multi-faceted, source-based, and coherent manner. A history that embraces the whole of [German] culture, religion, economy and society * Süddeutsche Zeitung *Whaley sees the Reich as a continually reforming, diverse but legally ordered polity, rather than some kind of bizarre monstrosity or collective fiction. His two volumes are exceptionally well written and highly nuanced and reflect the latest scholarship. Indeed, they represent a huge personal achievement. They will provide a standard of scholarship against which all future works will be measured * Alan Sked, Reviews in History *...its complexity and sophistication, [the] stupendous breadth and depth of Whaley's knowledge. The two volumes are full of incisive chapters on topics as diverse as economic policies, religious reform movements, court culture ... skilfully crafted and engrossing narrative * Michael Schaich, Times Literary Supplement *superb and authoritative study * Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph *Whaley's account is one of the best works on early modern German history. From the first page to the last, it shows how German history can be presented as both a history of Emperor and Empire, and a history of common culture. It will immediately establish itself as a standard guide to its subject. * Georg Schmidt, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena *Overall brilliantly successful ... a detailed account of two hundred years of German history ... In a thousand details the monograph is more knowledgeable that other English-language accounts of German history ... and in numerous respects it is more knowledgeable than many a German handbook ... Whaley demonstrates a stupendous knowledge of German history. The reviewer believes this book is the most important English-language work on pre-modern German history for at least two decades * Axel Gotthard, Sehepunkte *An enterprise of this magnitude requires a steady hand on the tiller, as the author steers between the rocks of historiographical controversy and the shoals of submerged detail. Whaley accomplishes his argosy with poise and style. These two volumes, which will undoubtedly become a first point of reference, are a remarkable achievement of which the author should feel justly proud * Tom Scott, English Historical Review *the most comprehensive survey of Germany's early modern history ever undertaken, the first book of its kind since the 1950s, and one of the most substantial works of historical scholarship published in the UK in 2011 * Research Horizons, University of Cambridge *His work, though different in emphasis and organisation, stands equal with the major German speaking syntheses today existing such as by Horst Rabe, Karl Otmar von Aretin, Heinz Schilling, or Georg Schmidt. His detailed knowledge of the vast relevant research literature, in German or in any other language, on topics ranging from the later fifteenth to the early nineteenth century is breath-taking. As such, this work is a must-read for all students of Early Modern Germany unless they work on specific issues of social and demographic history. The superior quality of Whaley's synthesis is beyond question. This is a masterpiece that demands close attention and respect. * Robert von Friedeburg, H-Soz-u-Kult online *an account whose methodological reflection, thematic range, and wealth of detail are unparalleled... these two volumes will quickly become standard works... their particular form, combining sections on historiography and methodology, structural history and the history of events, has no counterpart in the German-language historiography. * Stefan Ehrenpreis, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *...successfully combines an experts love of detail with a clear view of the large picture...[It] can be recommended without hesitation as a valuable handbook for history teachers, students and journalists... [and] anyone interested in the historical-political development of Germany in Europe. * Willi Eisele, AHF-Information *a work of impressive scholarship and considerable erudition ... These two volumes put the Empire firmly back into German history. They provide a richly detailed, judiciously balanced discussion of the last three centuries of the Empires existence ... Whaleys history is a must for anyone with a serious interest in early modern Germany. * Peter Wilson, Central European History *A full and fresh assessment of more than three hundred years of German history ... the best political and institutional history of the Reich in any language ... Whaley seems to have read and digested everything. For this astonishing achievement alone one must be grateful ... As a general treatment of three centuries of legal and institutional history Whaley's volume will stand as a monument of erudite revisionism that, within its self-imposed limits, could hardly be improved. * H. C. Erik Midelfort, The Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. XLIII No. 4 (2012), pp. 1225-7. *essential reading * Edward Bradbury, Contemporary Review *Joachim Whaley's magnificent new two-volume study ... sets out precisely wherein the Old Reichs distinctive character lay and enables us to appreciate the reasons why it held the loyalties of so many for so long ... The whole is presented with admirable lucidity, free of jargon ... Whaley's monumental and magisterial study will assuredly quickly become and deservedly long remain a standard authoritative handbook for anyone concerned with the subject * John L Flood, The Modern Language Review *Joachim Whaley's magnificent book gives readers the best, most persuasive available account in any language of the revisionist case. He turns the old view on its head ... He displays a remarkably wide-ranging knowledge of German culture during the three centuries covered by his book ... This is a bracing book of ideas and arguments, sustained over 125 chapters and almost 1,500 pages. It is both scholarly and very readable. * David Blackbourn, Common Knowledge *This monumental study ... rests on an impressive body of knowledge, not least on knowledge of the secondary literature ... the extraordinary readability of the two volumes ... makes this text an enjoyable read for specialists, students and enthusiasts from many different fields. * Laura Anna Macor, Historia Philosophica [translation] *Whaley negotiates a vast bibliography, which includes the history of institutions, to offer an excellent tool that is both a compass for orienting oneself among the various issues and itself a starting point. * Michaela Valente, Archivio Storico Italiana *One of the most impressive and helpful scholarly monographs of 2012... In this landmark study, Whaley provides a historical overview in which he evaluates narratives and interpretations, that are revealing about the thinking of the period but also in view of some modern views and theories. Chapter by chapter, he tests the validity of perceptions and the sense of identity Germans began to develop in the 16th century not least in opposition to wider European aspirations and claims. By questioning patterns of established thought Whaley manages time and again to add new insights to the interface of subject areas such as theology, politics, the economy and social issues... His study will be as useful to the established scholar as it is to the novice seeking to understand the influences and concerns that shaped the...Empire. * Ulrike Zitzlsperger, The Years Work in Modern Language Studies, lxxiv (2014) *These two-volumes ... are the fruit of long and thorough research and stand out for their many hundreds of pages of reader-friendly freshness. The external perspective of British scholarship has succeeded in producing a standard work on both German and European history. * Prof. Dr. Bernd Schneidmüller, University of Heidelberg [translation] *Joachim Whaley crowns a long generations work of demystifying the empires history with these two large, learned, and impressive volumes. * The Journal of Modern History *Whaleys two volumes mark an immense accomplishment and should be read by any scholar working on the early modern Empire or early modern politics in general. They represent the most comprehensive history of the Empire available in English and are sure to generate debate for decades to come. * Christopher Close, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 2013 literature *a massive and exceptionally successful project that offers a comprehensive view of the Holy Roman Empire ... From the point of view of Austrian history, the author is constantly concerned to reflect critically on the relationship of the [Habsburgs'] German hereditary lands, as well as Hungary and Bohemia to the Empire. The volume is encyclopaedic in scope ... the author demonstrates great breadth and expertise in pursuing his themes of political, cultural, constitutional and social history ... In view of its balanced approach and profundity the volume will occupy an unchallenged place in the libraries of scholars next to the work of Aretin and the major handbooks of German and European history ... This work is also exceptionally well written and it represents an awesome achievement on the part of the author * Martin Scheutz, Mitteilingen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 2014 [translation] *a recognised authority in the field stupendous and enviable knowledge of the scholarly literature [offers] a counterpoint to the decline narratives [of the empire] that still dominate [German historiography] * Gabriele Haug-Moritz, Zeitschrift fuer Historische Forschung *There is no similar comprehensive and multi-perspectival account [of early modern German history] ... the publication of these volumes is an event for German historians too ... With its encyclopaedic aspiration, the mass of information he offers concerning political, legal, religious-intellectual, administrative, educational and economic developments, as well as the numerous perceptive judgements which correct previous research, Whaley has produced a standard work on the history of the early modern Old Reich, which stands on its own in the international scholarship on this subject ... He has produced a thoroughly scholarly and intelligent work that combines a wealth of information with an ability to formulate original arguments and revise received scholarly opinions. * Christoph Kampmann, Historische Zeitschrift *These two volumes offer an historical survey of roughly three centuries such as I have never before encountered. Joachim Whaley has produced a masterpiece. He has not overlooked anything at all. The two volumes are perfectly researched and the price ... is more than reasonable. Anyone interested in modern history and in particular the history of Germany must read this work. * Fachbuchkritik [review of German edition] *a pleasure to read ... Whaley shows how the efforts to create an intellectual and political framework in the pre-constitutional era had lasting effects to the present. * Joachim Frank, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger [review of German edition] *a great achievement that he has introduced the English-speaking public to German history before the twentieth century in such a comprehensive manner and that he shows so decisively how the old national narrative has been revised. The sheer volume of the material that he employs also commands respect. * Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [review of German edition] *The new standard work on the period in which people still spoke of "German liberties". * Jens Jessen, Die Zeit [review of German edition] *Joachim Whaley's two volumes on the Holy Roman Empire constitute what is undoubtedly the best work on the topic currently available on the European market ... Whaley surpasses all [others] ... He thus overcomes the prevalent tendency of writing the history of the Empire in separate political, constitutional, religious and economic terms ... he displays an astonishing eye for detail ... No other piece of scholarship can match the attention to detail paid to such a wide variety of different aspects of the history of the Holy Roman Empire as can be found in Whaley's magnum opus. Whaley stands out, as his predecessors in writing the history of the Empire had primarily concentrated on political history alone. * Michael North, German History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Narratives of Early Modern German History ; I. GERMANY AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE IN 1500 ; 1. Origins and Frontiers ; 2. The Reich as a Polity ; 3. Fragmented Territories ; 4. The Reich and the German Nation ; II. THE REFORM OF THE REICH AND THE CHURCH C. 1490-1519 ; 5. The Reformation Era in German history ; 6. The Reich under Maximilian I ; 7. Reich, Papacy, and Reichskirche ; 8. Religious Renewal and the Laity ; 9. Humanism in the Reich ; 10. The 'Print Revolution' and the Public Sphere ; 11. Economic Landscapes, Communities, and their Grievances ; 12. Martin Luther and the 'Luther affair' 1517-1519 ; III. CHARLES V AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE REFORMATION IN THE 1520S ; 13. The Reich During the First Decade of Charles V ; 14. Luther and Imperial Politics, 1519-1526 ; 15. Luther and the German Reform Movement ; 16. Alternative Reformations and the Dominance of Lutheranism ; 17. The Knights' War, 1522-1523 ; 18. The Peasants' War, 1525 ; 19. Reformation in the Cities ; IV. MASTERING THE REFORMATION C. 1526-1555 ; 20. The Emergence of Protestant Territories ; 21. The Persistence of Catholicism ; 22. Charles V, Ferdinand, and the Reich in Europe ; 23. The Establishment of Protestantism, 1526-1530 ; 24. The Schmalkaldic League, its Counterparts, and the Politics of the Reich, 1530-1541 ; 25. Charles V as 'Lord of Germany', 1541-1548 ; 26. The Triumph of the Reich, 1548-1555 ; V. MANAGING THE PEACE 1555-1618 ; 27. Contours of the 'Confessional Age' ; 28. Emperors, Imperial Officials, and Estates after the Peace of Augsburg ; 29. Constitutional developments after 1555: Reichstag, Kreise, Courts, and Legislation ; 30. The Reich in Europe ; 31. Managing the Domestic Peace, 1555-c.1585 ; 32. The Consensus Falters, c. 1585-1603 ; 33. Paralysis, 1603-1614 ; 34. Problems of the Habsburg Dynasty ; 35. The Reich in the Reign of Emperor Matthias, 1612-1619 ; 36. The Crisis of the Habsburg lands ; 37. Imperial Public Law and the Struggle over the Imperial Constitution ; 38. Irenicism and Patriotism on the Eve of War ; VII. THE GERMAN TERRITORIES AND CITIES AFTER 1555 ; 39. Problems of Interpretation ; 40. A Benign Environment? ; 41. State Formation? ; 42. Domestic Order and Defence ; 43. Confessionalization? ; 44. Finance, Taxation, and Estates ; 45. The Resurgence of the Courts ; 46. The Imperial Cities ; 47. Responding to Crises ; VII. THE THIRTY YEARS WAR 1618-1648 ; 48. The Thirty Years War in German History ; 49. What Kind of Conflict? ; 50. The Reconquest of Austria and Bohemia, 1618-1623 ; 51. Ferdinand Victorious ; 52. Denmark and the War for the Reich, 1623-1629 ; 53. What Kind of Reich? Sweden and the Defence of German Liberties, 1630-1635 ; 54. Wallenstein and After ; 55. France, Sweden, and the German Way, 1635-1648 ; 56. The Peace of Westphalia ; 57. The Impact of the War on German Society ; 58. The Thirty Years War and the German Polity ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Book SynopsisGermany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that this was a long period of decline, and shows instead how imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, notably the Reformation and Thirty Years War. The impact of international developments on the Reich is also examined.Volume II begins with the Peace of Westphalia and concludes with the dissolution of the Reich. Whaley analyses the remarkable resurgence of the Reich after the Thirty Years War, which saw the Habsburg emperors achieve a new position of power and influence and which enabled the Reich to withstand the military threats posed by France and the Turks in the later seventeenth century. He gives a rich account of topics such as Pietism and baroque Catholicism, the German enTrade ReviewReview from previous edition: Whaley sees the Reich as a continually reforming, diverse but legally ordered polity, rather than some kind of bizarre monstrosity or collective fiction. His two volumes are exceptionally well written and highly nuanced and reflect the latest scholarship. Indeed, they represent a huge personal achievementthey will provide a standard of scholarship against which all future works will be measured * Alan Sked, Reviews in History *its complexity and sophistication [...the] stupendous breadth and depth of Whaley's knowledge. The two volumes are full of incisive chapters on topics as diverse as economic policies, religious reform movements, court culture ... skilfully crafted and engrossing narrative * Michael Schaich, Times Literary Supplement *superb and authoritative study * Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph *Whaley's account is one of the best works on early modern German history. From the first page to the last, it shows how German history can be presented as both a history of Emperor and Empire, and a history of common culture. It will immediately establish itself as a standard guide to its subject * Georg Schmidt, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena *[Whaley's] skilfully crafted and engrossing narrative shows with great lucidity how enduring and successful were the constitutional structures put in place around 1500 * Times Literary Supplement *the most comprehensive survey of Germany's early modern history ever undertaken, the first book of its kind since the 1950s, and one of the most substantial works of historical scholarship published in the UK in 2011 * Research Horizons, University of Cambridge *An enterprise of this magnitude requires a steady hand on the tiller, as the author steers between the rocks of historiographical controversy and the shoals of submerged detail Whaley accomplishes his argosy with poise and style. These two volumes, which will undoubtedly become a first point of reference, are a remarkable achievement of which the author should feel justly proud * Tom Scott, English Historical Review *His work, though different in emphasis and organisation, stands equal with the major German speaking syntheses today existing such as by Horst Rabe, Karl Otmar von Aretin, Heinz Schilling, or Georg Schmidt. His detailed knowledge of the vast relevant research literature, in German or in any other language, on topics ranging from the later fifteenth to the early nineteenth century is breath-taking. As such, this work is a must-read for all students of Early Modern Germany unless they work on specific issues of social and demographic history. The superior quality of Whaley's synthesis is beyond question. This is a masterpiece that demands close attention and respect. * Robert von Friedeburg, H-Soz-u-Kult online *an account whose methodological reflection, thematic range, and wealth of detail are unparalleled... these two volumes will quickly become standard works... their particular form, combining sections on historiography and methodology, structural history and the history of events, has no counterpart in the German-language historiography. * Stefan Ehrenpreis, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *...successfully combines an experts love of detail with a clear view of the large picture...[It] can be recommended without hesitation as a valuable handbook for history teachers, students and journalists... [and] anyone interested in the historical-political development of Germany in Europe. * Willi Eisele, AHF-Information *a work of impressive scholarship and considerable erudition ... These two volumes put the Empire firmly back into German history. They provide a richly detailed, judiciously balanced discussion of the last three centuries of the Empires existence ... Whaleys history is a must for anyone with a serious interest in early modern Germany. * Peter Wilson, Central European History *A full and fresh assessment of more than three hundred years of German history ... the best political and institutional history of the Reich in any language ... Whaley seems to have read and digested everything. For this astonishing achievement alone one must be grateful ... As a general treatment of three centuries of legal and institutional history Whaley's volume will stand as a monument of erudite revisionism that, within its self-imposed limits, could hardly be improved. * H. C. Erik Midelfort, The Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. XLIII No. 4 (2012), pp. 1225-7. *These two volumes offer an historical survey of roughly three centuries such as I have never before encountered. Joachim Whaley has produced a masterpiece. He has not overlooked anything at all. The two volumes are perfectly researched and the price ... is more than reasonable. Anyone interested in modern history and in particular the history of Germany must read this work. * Fachbuchkritik [review of German edition] *a pleasure to read ... Whaley shows how the efforts to create an intellectual and political framework in the pre-constitutional era had lasting effects to the present. * Joachim Frank, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger [review of German edition] *a great achievement that he has introduced the English-speaking public to German history before the twentieth century in such a comprehensive manner and that he shows so decisively how the old national narrative has been revised. The sheer volume of the material that he employs also commands respect. * Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [review of German edition] *The new standard work on the period in which people still spoke of "German liberties". * Jens Jessen, Die Zeit [review of German edition] *essential reading * Edward Bradbury, Contemporary Review *Joachim Whaley's magnificent new two-volume study ... sets out precisely wherein the Old Reichs distinctive character lay and enables us to appreciate the reasons why it held the loyalties of so many for so long ... The whole is presented with admirable lucidity, free of jargon ... Whaley's monumental and magisterial study will assuredly quickly become and deservedly long remain a standard authoritative handbook for anyone concerned with the subject. * John L Flood, The Modern Language Review *Joachim Whaley's magnificent book gives readers the best, most persuasive available account in any language of the revisionist case. He turns the old view on its head ... He displays a remarkably wide-ranging knowledge of German culture during the three centuries covered by his book ... This is a bracing book of ideas and arguments, sustained over 125 chapters and almost 1,500 pages. It is both scholarly and very readable. * David Blackbourn, Common Knowledge *This monumental study ... rests on an impressive body of knowledge, not least on knowledge of the secondary literature ... the extraordinary readability of the two volumes ... makes this text an enjoyable read for specialists, students and enthusiasts from many different fields. * Laura Anna Macor, Historia Philosophica [translation] *Whaley negotiates a vast bibliography, which includes the history of institutions, to offer an excellent tool that is both a compass for orienting oneself among the various issues and itself a starting point. * Michaela Valente, Archivio Storico Italiana *One of the most impressive and helpful scholarly monographs of 2012... In this landmark study, Whaley provides a historical overview in which he evaluates narratives and interpretations, that are revealing about the thinking of the period but also in view of some modern views and theories. Chapter by chapter, he tests the validity of perceptions and the sense of identity Germans began to develop in the 16th century not least in opposition to wider European aspirations and claims. By questioning patterns of established thought Whaley manages time and again to add new insights to the interface of subject areas such as theology, politics, the economy and social issues... His study will be as useful to the established scholar as it is to the novice seeking to understand the influences and concerns that shaped the...Empire. * Ulrike Zitzlsperger, The Years Work in Modern Language Studies, lxxiv (2014) *These two-volumes ... are the fruit of long and thorough research and stand out for their many hundreds of pages of reader-friendly freshness. The external perspective of British scholarship has succeeded in producing a standard work on both German and European history. * Prof. Dr. Bernd Schneidmüller, University of Heidelberg [translation] *Joachim Whaley crowns a long generations work of demystifying the empires history with these two large, learned, and impressive volumes. * The Journal of Modern History *Whaleys two volumes mark an immense accomplishment and should be read by any scholar working on the early modern Empire or early modern politics in general. They represent the most comprehensive history of the Empire available in English and are sure to generate debate for decades to come. * Christopher Close, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 2013 literature *Whaley's two volumes mark an immense accomplishment and should be read by any scholar working on the early modern Empire or early modern politics in general. They represent the most comprehensive history of the Empire available in English and are sure to genereate debate for decades to come. * Archiv fuer Reformationsgeschichte *a massive and exceptionally successful project that offers a comprehensive view of the Holy Roman Empire ... From the point of view of Austrian history, the author is constantly concerned to reflect critically on the relationship of the [Habsburgs'] German hereditary lands, as well as Hungary and Bohemia to the Empire. The volume is encyclopaedic in scope ... the author demonstrates great breadth and expertise in pursuing his themes of political, cultural, constitutional and social history ... In view of its balanced approach and profundity the volume will occupy an unchallenged place in the libraries of scholars next to the work of Aretin and the major handbooks of German and European history ... This work is also exceptionally well written and it represents an awesome achievement on the part of the author * Martin Scheutz, Mitteilingen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 2014 [translation] *a recognised authority in the field stupendous and enviable knowledge of the scholarly literature [offers] a counterpoint to the decline narratives [of the empire] that still dominate [German historiography] * Gabriele Haug-Moritz, Zeitschrift fuer Historische Forschung *There is no similar comprehensive and multi-perspectival account [of early modern German history] ... the publication of these volumes is an event for German historians too ... With its encyclopaedic aspiration, the mass of information he offers concerning political, legal, religious-intellectual, administrative, educational and economic developments, as well as the numerous perceptive judgements which correct previous research, Whaley has produced a standard work on the history of the early modern Old Reich, which stands on its own in the international scholarship on this subject ... He has produced a thoroughly scholarly and intelligent work that combines a wealth of information with an ability to formulate original arguments and revise received scholarly opinions. * Christoph Kampmann, Historische Zeitschrift *Joachim Whaley's two volumes on the Holy Roman Empire constitute what is undoubtedly the best work on the topic currently available on the European market ... Whaley surpasses all [others] ... He thus overcomes the prevalent tendency of writing the history of the Empire in separate political, constitutional, religious and economic terms ... he displays an astonishing eye for detail ... No other piece of scholarship can match the attention to detail paid to such a wide variety of different aspects of the history of the Holy Roman Empire as can be found in Whaley's magnum opus. Whaley stands out, as his predecessors in writing the history of the Empire had primarily concentrated on political history alone. * Michael North, German History *Table of ContentsPreface to Volume II ; I. RECONSTRUCTION AND RESURGENCE 1648-1705: THE REICH UNDER FERDINAND III AND LEOPOLD I ; 1. Historians and the Reich after the Thirty Years War ; 2. The Last Years of Ferdinand III: Western Leagues and Northern Wars ; 3. From Ferdinand III to Leopold I ; 4. Leopold I and his Foreign Enemies ; 5. A New Turkish Threat ; 6. Renewed Conflict with France ; 7. The Emperor, the Perpetual Reichstag, the Kreise, and Imperial Justice ; 8. Imperial Networks: the Reichskirche and the Imperial Cities ; 9. The Imperial Court at Vienna and Dynastic Elevations in the Reich ; 10. The Nature of the Reich: Projects and Culture ; 11. Interpretations of the Leopoldine Reic ; II. CONSOLIDATION AND CRISIS 1705-1740: THE REICH UNDER JOSEPH I AND CHARLES VI ; 12. Two Wars and Three Emperors ; 13. Leopold I, Joseph I, and the War of Spanish Succession ; 14. Joseph I and the Government of the Reich ; 15. Charles VI: Fruition or Decline? ; 16. Conflicting Priorities: c.1714 - c.1730 ; 17. Charles VI and the Government of the Reich ; 18. The Return of Confessional Politics? ; 19. The Problem of the Austrian Succession ; 20. The Ebb of Imperial Power 1733-1740? ; 21. The Reich in Print ; III. THE GERMAN TERRITORIES, C. 1648-C.1740 ; 22. An Age of Absolutism? ; 23. Contemporary Perceptions: From Reconstruction to Early Enlightenment ; 24. The Smaller Territories ; 25. Austria and Brandenburg-Prussia ; 26. The Revival of the Court and the Development of Territorial Government ; 27. The Court: its Culture, its Functions, and its Critics ; 28. The Development of Military Power ; 29. Princes and Estates ; 30. An Oppressed Peasantry? ; 31. Government and Society ; 32. Government and Economic Development ; 33. Public and Private Enterprise ; 34. Christian Polities: Baroque Catholicism ; 35. Christian Polities: the Territories of the Reichskirche ; 36. Christian Polities: Protestant Orthodoxy and Renewal ; 37. From Coexistence to Toleration? ; 38. Enlightenment and Patriotism ; IV. DECLINE OR MATURITY? THE REICH FROM CHARLES VII TO LEOPOLD II, C. 1740-1792 ; 39. Three Emperors and a King ; 40. Silesian Wars, 1740-1763 ; 41. Managing the Reich without the Habsburgs: Charles VII (1742-45) ; 42. The Return of the Habsburgs: Francis I (1745-1765) ; 43. The Reich without Enemies? Germany and Europe 1763-1792 ; 44. Renewal: Joseph II 1765-c.1776 ; 45. The Great Reform Debate: Joseph II c. 1778-1790 ; 46. Restoration: Leopold II 1790-92 ; 47. Central and Intermediate Institutions of the Reich ; 48. The Reich, the Public Sphere, and the Nation ; V. THE GERMAN TERRITORIES AFTER C. 1760 ; 49. Enlightenment and the Problem of Reform ; 50. Crisis and Opportunity ; 51. The Challenge of the Enlightenment and the Public Sphere ; 52. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Aufklarung ; 53. Aufklarung and Government ; 54. Cameralism, Physiocracy, and the Provisioning of Society ; 55. Economic Policy: Manufactures, Guilds, Welfare, and Taxation ; 56. Administration, Law, and Justice ; 57. Education and Toleration ; 58. Courts and Culture ; 59. The Impact of Reform: Immunity against Revolution? ; VI. WAR AND DISSOLUTION: THE REICH 1792-1806 ; 60. Ruptures and Continuities ; 61. The Reich in the Revolutionary Wars ; 62. Reverberations of the French Revolution: Unrest and Uprisings ; 63. Reverberations of the French Revolution: Intellectuals ; 64. Schemes for the Reform of the Reich in the 1790s ; 65. The Peace of Luneville (1801) and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803) ; 66. The Transformation of the Reich 1803-05 ; 67. Final Attempts at Reform and the Dissolution of the Reich 1806 ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Diotimas Children
Book SynopsisDiotima's Children is the first comprehensive re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics as it prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This tradition is of the greatest historical importance because it gave birth to modern aesthetics, art criticism, and art history.Trade ReviewThis book represents a revolution in the historiography of German aesthetics and philosophy, shaped and canonized since Kant and Hegel. However, its provocative statements are simply the result of carefully rereading the long-dismissed pre-Kantian thinkers and of trying to understand them from the perspective of the questions which originally motivated their thinking. The result is the most informative and comprehensive presentation of German aesthetics and philosophy from Leibniz to Kant available today, one that can finally replace Beck's Kant and his Predecessors. * Ursula Goldenbaum, Journal of the History of Philosophy *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reappraising Aesthetic Rationalism ; 1. Leibniz and the Roots of Aesthetic Rationalism ; 2. Wolff and the Birth of Aesthetic Rationalism ; 3. Gottsched and the Highnoon of Rationalism ; 4. The Poets' War ; 5. Baumgarten's Science of Aesthetics ; 6. Winckelmann & Neo-Classicism ; 7. Mendelssohn's Defense of Reason ; 8. Lessing and Aesthetic Rationalism ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History
Book SynopsisIn relative terms, intellectual history is currently enjoying a moment of prominence and self-confidence greater than it has known in decades. Yet surprisingly for a field whose practitioners pride themselves on intellectual self-awareness, its star may have risen along with a decline in self-reflection. Few recent theoretical statements have attempted to justify intellectual history, to explain what makes its practice worthwhile and methodologically sound. This situation is ironic. The time of bitter and divisive disputes about the place of intellectual history in the humanities may be a living memory, but it is an improbably distant one. Everyone seems to be getting along these days: intellectual historians with other kinds of historians, and intellectual historians with one another. Yet only a generation ago, the field was faced with marginalization - if not extinction - by powerful external forces, which imposed a kind of exile, prompting a period of intense theoretical self-examinTrade ReviewThis rich collection of articles explores the relatively recent past of the intellectual history of modern Europe in intriguing ways.... All of the authors are intellectually engaged with what intellectual history offers, intrigued by its future prospects, and aware of possible pitfalls of applying their proposals uncritically....This collection documents a field in an exciting state of evolution with many intriguing paths open to scholars and will be invaluable for anyone interested in understanding the current state of intellectual history. Many scholars will doubtless appreciate the clear paths through recent historiography of the various themes and sub-disciplines this collection treats. They will find a guide, a bibliography, and a thoughtful analysis of topics they might wish to pursue in their own work. * Kathleen Wellman, H-France *Provocative.... This volume challenges readers to think broadly and critically about historical knowledge, but it also shows specifically how a new generation of intellectual historians is revitalizing an eclectic sub-discipline that never stays the same and never disappears. * Canadian Journal of History *At the crossroads of many disciplines, intellectual history has emerged as a vital stimulus to the humanities as a whole. Shedding the residues of cultural condescension, European intellectual history in particular has come to be an endlessly renewable resource for creative thinking across the globe. As this lively volume amply demonstrates, it has a bright future in the hands of a new generation of gifted practitioners. * Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley *Over thirty years have passed since the last major attempt to reassess the field of modern European intellectual history. In light of the seeming eclipse of some orientations (such as Marxism), the reformulation of others (such as psychoanalysis), and the newer turns in the field (from the linguistic to the postsecular and the global), the time is certainly ripe for a new assessment. This volume will hold a key place in further efforts to 'rethink' the field both as a collection of significant contributions and as a focal point for constructive, critical debate. * Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University *The study of modern intellectual history is gripped by the paradoxes of success. While scholarship in this area has flourished over the past generation, it has become so sprawling an enterprise that its very identity is in question. Perfectly timed to address the growing need for self-reflection in the field, Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History provides at once a map of the discipline, a meditation on its history, and a provocation to new thinking and writing on the history of European ideas. This collection is sure to become a landmark, not just for European intellectual historians, but for anyone with an interest in the history of ideas. * Joel Isaac, author of Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn *a superb collection ... The power of this book as a whole is to clarify the critical impact intellectual history can have on varied fields of inquiry and its centrality to historiography. The volume demonstrates elegantly that intellectual history remains an effective tool against disciplinary quiescence. * Carolyn J. Dean, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction: Interim Intellectual History Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn ; 1. The Return of the History of Ideas? Darrin M. McMahon ; 2. Contextualism and Criticism in the History of Ideas Peter E. Gordon ; 3. Does Intellectual History Exist in France?: The Chronicle of a Renaissance Foretold ; Antoine Lilti ; 4. On Conceptual History Jan-Werner Muller ; 5. Scandalous Relations: Supplementing Intellectual and Cultural History Judith Surkis ; 6. Imaginary Intellectual History Samuel Moyn ; 7. Has the History of the Disciplines Had Its Day? Suzanne Marchand ; 8. Cosmologies Materialized: History of Science and History of Ideas John Tresch ; 9. Decentering Sex: Reflections on Freud, Foucault, and Subjectivity in Intellectual History Tracie Matysik ; 10. Can we see ideas? On Evocation, Experience, and Empathy Marci Shore ; 11. The Space of Intellect and the Intellect of Space John Randolph ; 12. The International Turn in Intellectual History David Armitage ; 13. Global Intellectual History and the Indian Political Shruti Kapila ; 14. Intellectual History and the Interdisciplinary Ideal Warren Breckman
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Social Impact of the Arts An Intellectual
Book SynopsisAn intellectual history of contrasting ideas around the power of the arts to bring about personal and societal change - for better and worse. A fascinating account of the value and functions of the arts in society, in both the private sphere of individual emotions and self-development and public sphere of politics and social distinction.Trade Review'The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History starts with today's heated public debate about the 'intrinsic' and the 'instrumental' in the arts, and then locates this debate within a history of ideas that goes back over two thousand years to classical Greece Plato's Republic and Aristotle on catharsis. In tracing this history and revealing that there is nothing new under the sun in arguments about the arts, the authors show how the meanings of some key concepts among them, "the transforming power of the arts", "art for art's sake", "the arts are good for you", "the arts and cultural identities" have evolved over time, as parts of a very long-standing argument. The aims of this book are ambitious: to nourish public debate, to reconnect us all with a rich tradition of thinking, to show how certain ideas turned into commonplace beliefs, and in the end to encourage "a more nuanced understanding of how the arts can affect people". This is a much-needed study, believe me, and a timely one as well: an examination of what lies behind the rhetoric, it fills a surprising gap in the fast-expanding literature on cultural policy.' - Sir Christopher Frayling, Chairman, Arts Council England, and Rector, Royal College of Art 'This short book is a great read, full of fascinating material, which will provide incendiary matter for debates about the arts in society.' - Mark O'Neill, Cultural Trends 'Those new to the field will find this an enormously helpful introduction, while those who are not will often be refreshed, sometimes stimulated, and occasionally irritated. What more could one ask?' - Gary Day, THES 'Its great strength is to challenge readers to question their own beliefs and the necessarily ideological construction of debates about art and its value.' - Francois Matarasso, Arts Professional 'Belfiore and Bennett have produced an insightful study that illuminates not only what lies behind the cultural policy rhetoric, but also what connects twenty-first century cultural policy debates to two millenia of intellectual ideas.' - Nicola Goc, Media International Australia 'It is...a pity that the humanities did not take earlier and more confident steps to marshal the wide range of research already carried out into claims made for the social use of the arts into comprehensive surveys like the present, superlative, "intellectual history" by Eleanora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett... The book's compass and ambition is nothing short of humbling, ranging as it does from Plato to postmodernism, across a range of performative, literary and fine arts, both "high" and "low", and responding to a variety of claims that have been made against, as well as for, the arts... This is managed with exemplary, jargon-free clarity that sacrifices nothing of the sophistication of thought and makes the book an excellent choice for students... One hopes that undergraduate courses in all branches of historical cultural enquiry are able to find room to accommodate such wide-angle approaches to their subjects... Highly recommended to all undergraduate students of the arts." - Chris Jones, THE Textbook GuideTable of ContentsIntroduction Towards a new approach to researching the social impacts of the arts Corruption and distraction Catharsis Personal well-being Education and Self-development Moral improvement and civilization Political instrument Social stratification and identity construction Autonomy of the art and rejection of instrumentality Conclusions References Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Memory Culture and the Contemporary City Building Sites
Book SynopsisThese essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I Monument and Melancholia; V.Burgin Sonnen-Insulaner : On a Berlin Island of Memory; T.Elsaesser Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin; H.Reeh Global Building Sites – Between Past and Future; D.Libeskind PART II Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin; K.E.Till & J.Jonker Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's 'City of David'; W.Pullan& M.Gwiazda Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past; M.Fulbrook Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War; J.Ward Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground; C.Scribner PART III Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage; S.Bürkle Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films; G.Kantaris Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tilmans; P.Ekardt On the Road with mnemonic nonstop ; L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar& J.Roller Notes Index
£44.99
Yale University Press War Machine
Book SynopsisExamines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the 19th century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, poets, natural scientists, journalists and soldiers to trace the origins of modern philosophies about the nature of war and conflict.
£34.89
Yale University Press Invented Cities The Creation of Landscape in NineteenthCentury New York Boston Paper The Creation of Landscape in NineteenthCentury New York and Boston Revised
Book SynopsisInvestigating why cities look the way they do, this book compares the strikingly different landscapes of Boston and New York. It explores the physical differences between the two, comparing building patterns and architectural styles to show how a society's vision creates its own urban form.
£27.10
Yale University Press From Soul to Mind
Book SynopsisThis account of psychology's formative years tells the story of the failures and successes of 19th-century thinkers and practitioners to make psychology into a science. It also situates psychological developments within the social, religious and literary contexts of the time.
£33.78
Yale University Press Peirescs Europe
Book SynopsisNicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc played an important role in the intellectual culture of his time. This work examines both the man and his circle, which included Pope Urban VIII and Galileo. It brings into focus the early 17th-century world of learning - its people, places and ideas.
£52.69
Yale University Press Renaissance and Reformation The Intellectual Genesis
Book SynopsisIn this survey of the development of European intellectual culture between about 1350 and 1550, Levi offers a fresh view of the Renaissance and the Reformation, calling for a reassessment of the nature of both.Trade Review"A refreshingly broad vision of the period." Times Literary Supplement; "It is an important work and sets forth new constructs about Renaissance and Reformation that must be considered." Marion Leathers Kuntz, American Historical Review; "Levi's skillfully navigated intellectual journey is a tour de force." Choice; "Massive and learned work... great wealth of Learning." History"
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Yale University Press The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture
Book SynopsisAn eminent scholar of modern culture argues that the Enlightenment - the importance of which has been vigorously debated in recent years - was a more complex phenomenon than either its detractors or advocates assume.Trade Review“Louis Dupré’s study of the Enlightenment, ranging as it does over art, morality, religion, science, philosophy, social theory, and a good deal besides, is a marvel of scholarly erudition. . . . A formidably well-researched book, which would make an excellent introduction to Enlightenment ideas for the general reader.”—Terry Eagleton, Harper’s Magazine“In The Enlightenment, Dupré fully meets the high expectations raised by his earlier Passage to Modernity.”—Stijn Van den Bossche, Tertio“[Dupré] conceives [the Enlightenment] not as a static program, but as a dynamic, even dialectical one. Thanks to this comprehensiveness, his intellectual portrait of the Enlightenment, as fascinating as it is learned, gains in depth and scope.”—Arnold Heumakers, NRC Handelsblad“This immensely readable book will cause readers to rethink the Enlightenment and to see its positive aspects. It will also add crucial historical perspective to current discussions of modernity.”—Donald Verene, Emory University
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Yale University Press Dreams of Peace and Freedom
Book Synopsis"To anyone with a flame of utopian hope still flickering in his or her soul, this moving, wise, and passionate book can only be a blessing."—Foreign Affairs Trade Review"'Winter is an acclaimed cultural historian of World War I and early 20th-century conflicts. Here, with refreshing, new-millennium insight, he reflects on inter-world war attempts - excluding the awful accomplishments born of the ostensibly idealistic goals of the century's roster of monster totalitarians - to build a better, fairer society on a grand scale... Highly recommended.' Library Journal"
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Palgrave Macmillan Between Heaven and Hell The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture
Book SynopsisIntroduction; Y.Slezkine & G.Diment - Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians: The Missionary Dilemma in Siberia; Y.Slezkine, - Avvakum and the Genesis of Siberian Literature; B.T.Holl - Exiled from Siberia: The Construction of Siberian Experience by Early Nineteenth Century Irkutsk Writers: G.Diment - Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian Images up to the Mid-1880s; J.R.Gibson 'Vo Glubine Sibirskikh Rud': Siberia and the Myth of Exile; H.Murav - The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860-1920; S.Watrous - Lenin and the Siberian Peasant Insurrections; N.G.O.Pereira - Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma; L.Toker - Vasilii Shukshin and His Siberia; J.Givens - Stereotyping Interethnic Communication: The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature; J.Nichols - The Divided Self: Yuri Rytkheu and Contemporary Chukchi Literature; A.Barker - Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous People; B.Grant - A Paradise Lost? Siberia and its Writers, 1960-1990; D.GillesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Y.Slezkine & G.Diment - Savage Christians or Unorthodox Russians: The Missionary Dilemma in Siberia; Y.Slezkine, - Avvakum and the Genesis of Siberian Literature; B.T.Holl - Exiled from Siberia: The Construction of Siberian Experience by Early Nineteenth Century Irkutsk Writers: G.Diment - Paradoxical Perceptions of Siberia: Patrician and Plebeian Images up to the Mid-1880s; J.R.Gibson 'Vo Glubine Sibirskikh Rud': Siberia and the Myth of Exile; H.Murav - The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860-1920; S.Watrous - Lenin and the Siberian Peasant Insurrections; N.G.O.Pereira - Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma; L.Toker - Vasilii Shukshin and His Siberia; J.Givens - Stereotyping Interethnic Communication: The Siberian Native in Soviet Literature; J.Nichols - The Divided Self: Yuri Rytkheu and Contemporary Chukchi Literature; A.Barker - Siberia Hot and Cold: Reconstructing the Image of Siberian Indigenous People; B.Grant - A Paradise Lost? Siberia and its Writers, 1960-1990; D.Gillespie - Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Friedrich Hayek
Book SynopsisFriedrich August von Hayek, though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, is now regarded as a visionary. This biography of his life also discusses his works: "The Road to Serfdom", "The Constitution of Liberty" (1960), "Law, Legislation and Liberty" (1973-1979), and "The Fatal Conceit" (1988).Trade Review'Ebenstein has provided an educational look at the life and thought of a philosopher who bids fair to have as much intellectual relevance to this century as Marx had to the 20th.' - Washington Post '...Ebenstein take us on a lively intellectual journey...[an] astute biography...' - Wall Street Journal '...a gripping account...an illustrious exposition of the life of the last century's greatest political philosopher.' - Houston Chronicle '...an accessible and illuminating review of Hayek's life, philosophy, and accomplishments.' - Washington Times 'A splendid biography of the twentieth century's greatest philosopher of liberty. A well written, sympathetic, yet critical examination of his life and intellectual contributions.' - Milton Friedman, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Instititution, Stanford University, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Chicago, and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 1976 'It is good to have this solid intellectual biography of Hayek available. It can supplement the several generalized evaluations of Hayek's ideas.' - James M. Buchanan, Advisory General Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at George Mason University and Virginia Tech, and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, 1986 '...Ebenstein skillfully crafts his history.' - Claremont Review of Books '...an illustrious exposition of the life of the last century's greatest political philosopher.' - Houston ChronicleTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: WAR 1899-1931 Family World War I University of Vienna New York Mises PART II: ENGLAND1931-193 LSE Robbins Keynes Monetary and Business Cycle Theory Capital International Gold Standard Socialist Calculation 'Economics and Knowledge' PART III: CAMBRIDGE 1940-1949 The Abuse and Decline of Reason Methodology and Epistemology The Road to Serfdom Celebrity Mont Pelerin Society Psychology Popper PART IV: AMERICA 1950-1962 Divorce and Remarriage University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought Mill The Constitution of Liberty Influence Friedman PART V: LAW, LEGISLATION AND LIBERTY 1962-1974 Freiburg Liberty and Law Marx, Evolution, and Utopia Government and Morals Historian of Ideas Salzburg PART VI: NOBEL PRIZE 1974-1992 Laureate Later Monetary Thinking and Seldon Thatcher Opa Bartley The Fatal Conceit Neustift am Wald 'Universal Order of Peace' Chronology of Hayek's Major Works
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Nazi Germany 19331945
Book SynopsisJost Dülffer is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Cologne, Germany.Trade Review'Rich in detail, accurately and well researched, and well balanced...Readers will have an up-to-date, well-organized, thorough and - not least - convincing account of the Nazi state and its policies.' Ian Kershaw, Professor of History, University of Sheffield '...succeeds in introducing most of the central debates on the Nazi period...All in all, this is an impressive work. However, its true worth will emerge through experience of using it as a teaching text, something this reviewer looks forward to doing in the coming years.' German History '...the handling of complex issues is masterful... All in all, this is an impressive work.' German HistoryTable of ContentsWeimar and the rise of National Socialism; the conquest of power 1933-38; preparing for war; the Fuehrer state; the war; origins, breaks and consequences - on the social history and politics of the "national community"; conclusions.
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Random House USA Inc A History of Knowledge
Book SynopsisA one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history.'Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows.'Clifton FadimanSelected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club
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W. W. Norton & Company The True and Only Heaven
Book Synopsis"A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"A profound and intellectually honest work of breathtaking historical scope that could easily set the terms of political debate in a post-cold-war world in which the ideologies of right and left seem totally exhausted. . . . A cleareyed study of our usable past." -- Kirkus Reviews"Powerful and moving. . . . A magisterial synthesis." -- Michael Stern - San Francisco Chronicle"Christopher Lasch has written a great book about the most important things. As a major contribution to public discourse, The True and Only Heaven will be at the center of discussion for years to come." -- Robert Bellah, coauthor of Habits of the Heart
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WW Norton & Co The Enlightenment Vol 2 Science of Freedom
Book SynopsisThe second volume of Peter Gay's in-depth study of the dawn of the modern worldthe Age of Reason.
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Pluto Press The Politics Of James Connolly
Book SynopsisWhy has the work of James Connolly, leader of the Easter Rising, Marxist and Irish national hero, been so misunderstood?Trade Review'A concise, clear and readable account of Connolly’s politics' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsAbbreviations Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Formative Years 2. Building the Irish Socialist Republican Party 3. A Socialist Republican 4. Connolly in America 5. Labour in Irish History 6. 1910-1914: The Tumultuous Years 7. War and the Collapse of the Second International 8. The Road to 1916 9. The Socialist Movement after Connolly 10. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Legislators and Interpreters
Book SynopsisThe book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being ''legislators'' to ''interpreters'' with the transition from modernity to post-modernity. The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being ''legislators'' to ''interpreters'' with the transition from modernity to post-modernity.Trade Review'Astonishing and intriguing.' New Society 'This is the first book since The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that I've read from cover to cover twice ... Bauman's book is endlessly fascinating.' Tribune 'Enthralling ... a fascinating pot-pourri of contemporary sociological preoccupations.' Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction:. Intellectuals: From Modern Legislators to Post-modern Interpreters. 1. Paul Radin, or an Aetiology of the Intellectuals. 2. Les philosophes: The Archetype and the Utopia. 3. Sociogenesis of the Power Knowledge Syndrome. 4. Gamekeepers turned Gardeners. 5. Educating People. 6. Discovery of Culture. 7. Ideology, or Building the World of Ideas. 8. The Fall of the Legislator. 9. The Rise of the Interpreter. 10. Two Nations, Mark Two: The Seduced. 11. Two Nations, Mark Two: The Repressed. 12. Conclusions: one too many. Notes. Index.
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