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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant
Book SynopsisImmanuel Kant is widely considered to be the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. His philosophy is extraordinarily wide-ranging and his influence has been pervasive throughout eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century thought, in particular in the work of the German Idealists, and also in both Analytic and Continental philosophy today.Now available as a new and expanded edition in paperback, this accessible companion to Kant features more than 100 specially commissioned entries, written by a team of experts in the field, covering every aspect of his philosophy. The Bloomsbury Companion to Kant presents a comprehensive overview of the historical and philosophical context in which Kant wrote and the various features, themes and topics apparent in his thought. It also includes extensive synopses of all his major published works and a survey of the key lines of reception and influence including a new addition on Schopenhauer''s receTrade ReviewThis is a tremendously useful volume, including a valuable Introduction and an impressively thorough bibliography, detailed accounts of the individual works, sections on figures of influence, philosophical and historical context, and the reception and influence of Kant to the present, together with an encyclopedia of entries on key themes and topics. It will be of benefit to all interested in Kant on any level. -- Professor Richard E. Aquila, University of Tennessee, USAEschewing the typically lengthy essays written by eminent Kant scholars, this collection is built like a true reference source. It features brief, alphabetical, cross-referenced articles written by dozens of lesser-known scholars on hundreds of core concepts and aimed squarely at novice researchers. -- CHOICE, L.A. Wilkinson, University of Tennesse at Chattanooga, USAThis handy volume consists of more than one hundred entries from thirty-six authors...The expositions of the main points in Kant’s writings are very extensive (e.g., 17 pages on the Critique of Pure Reason), balanced and precise, and they also place Kant’s works within the contemporary setting in which they originated...The fact that all areas of Kant’s thought are so well integrated across theoretical and practical divisions, and also updated in accordance with recent contributions to Kant scholarship, is a further strength. No doubt, it is the large team of international Kant experts behind the companion, with a broad spectrum of interests and specialities, that has made this feasible. Among these are representatives of a new generation with a fresh approach to key elements in Kant’s philosophy...The Continuum Companion to Kant – with its accessible and inviting style of presentation – is definitely a very welcome addition to the growing body of general guides to Kant’s philosophy. It accords a uniquely analytic focus to the context of Kant’s views through separate entries that zoom in on specific influences and connections at a very detailed level...wise editorial choices [that] have ensured overall coherence and completeness. -- Kant Studies Online, Frode Kjosavik, University of Oslo, NorwayThis companion provides a solid guide for how to address such work, and understanding such influences (obscure or unknown to most non-specialists) and helps to shed light on certain idiosyncrasies in Kant's writing...the text provides very strong support with full citations for further research provided. For those looking for a bibliography of significant resources relating to Kant, this companion will provide plenty of support...those prepared with some familiarity should find much to engage with and to take up for further engagement. -- Metapsychology Online Reviews, Michael Larson, Point Park University, USATable of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Abbreviations of Kant's Works Introduction Part I: Key Writings 1. Key Works The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God / The 'Inaugural Dissertation' / Critique of Pure Reason / Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science / Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals / Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science / Critique of Practical Reason / Critique of Judgment / Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason / Toward Perpetual Peace / Metaphysics of Morals Part II: Kant's Contexts 2. Philosophical and Historical Context Academy prize essay / Aristotelianism / J. A. Eberhard / Empiricism / Frederick the Great / French Revolution / Garve-Feder review / Herder / Francis Hutcheson / Königsberg / J. H. Lambert / Moses Mendelssohn / Physical influx / Pietism / Prussia / School Metaphysics / Adam Smith / Spinoza 3. Sources and Influences Aristotle / Francis Bacon / A. Baumgarten / Cicero / C. A. Crusius / Descartes / Epicurus and Epicureanism / Leonhard Euler / Marcus Herz / Hume / Leibniz / Locke / G. F. Meier / Newton / Plato / Rousseau / Swedenborg / J. N. Tetens / Wolff Part III: Key Themes and Topics 4. Key Themes and Topics Part IV: Reception and Influence 5. Reception and Influence Until 1781: Responses to Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation / First Responses to the Critique of Pure Reason: The 1780s and Later / Kantianism in the 1790s: From Reinhold to Hegel / Hegel’s Appropriation of Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy in the Jena Period / Schopenhauer's Reception of Kant / ‘Back to Kant’: Neo-Kantianism / Heidegger’s Phenomenological Reading of Kant / Analytical Kantianism / Analytic Approaches to Kant’s Ethics / Kantian Normativity in Rawls, Korsgaard and Continental Practical Philosophy Part V: Bibliography 6. Kant Bibliography Notes Index
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Edinburgh University Press Simone De Beauvoirs Philosophy of Individuation
Book SynopsisLaura Hengehold presents a new, Deleuzian reading of Simone de Beauvoir s phenomenology, the place of recognition in The Second Sex, the philosophical issues in her novels, the important role of her student diaries and her early interest in Bergson and Leibniz.
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Edinburgh University Press Adam Smith and Rousseau
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in politics, philosophy, economics, history and literature.
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Edinburgh University Press Classical Caledonia
Book SynopsisFocuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland's ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only misunderstood, but also manipulated in attempts to create a patriotic history for the nation.
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Edinburgh University Press Positive Atheism
Book SynopsisCharles Devellennes looks at the the religious, social and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy.
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Edinburgh University Press Adam Fergusons Later Writings
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Quercus Publishing Angels and Ages: A short book about Darwin,
Book Synopsis'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding' - Andrew MarrOn February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work transform mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, changed the way we think about the very nature of existence, and that their great achievements proceeded from the same source: argument from reason. The revolutions they effected shaped the world we live in, while the intellectual heritage and method that informed their parallel lives has profound implications for our present age. Filled with little-known stories and unfamiliar characters, Angels and Ages reveals these men in a new, shared light, and provides a fascinating insight into the origins of our modern vision and liberal values.Trade Review'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding' * Andrew Marr *'Vivid and charming ... Gopnik moves from the personal to the political with ease, and his writing hums with authenticity' * Financial Times *'Adam Gopnik is a great essayist, with a precise, fastidious, if occasionally mannered style.... His insights are good and the book is informed by the author's profound liberalism' * New Statesman *'This is the essay every essayist would like to have written...he teases, returns again, holds back punchlines and concludes dense paragraphs with intense little summary bombs... The core of the book, the chemical conversion of coincidence to idea, is the proposition that Darwin and Lincoln both entered a world in which people understood themselves vertically - God above, Hell below...outstanding essay' * Daily Telegraph *'Gopnik knows well enough that Darwin and Lincoln's shared birth date is a mere accident of history, but he comes as close as anyone can in convincing you otherwise' * New Scientist *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Angels and Ages. Lincoln's Mind. Darwin's Eye. Lincoln in History. Darwin in Time. Ages and Angels. A Bibliographic Note.
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Oneworld Publications European Aesthetics: A Critical Introduction from
Book SynopsisThe birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason. But as science flourished in Europe, violence and brutality did not abate. In the French Revolution, thousands were guillotined and the death toll was vast. Philosophers asked whether we had become dehumanised by rationality and abstract political theory. Did art and literature provide a way to rediscover our soul and our compassion? Or could art be corrupted just as easily, used as propaganda to justify abhorrent acts? In this masterful survey of European aesthetics over the last two hundred years, philosopher Robert L. Wicks argues that it is this tension between creativity and rationality that has characterised debate in the subject. Presenting the theories of sixteen seminal thinkers, including Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Derrida, European Aesthetics shows how each philosopher’s theory of art was motivated by broader topics in their thought, concerning who we are and what a good society should resemble. With colour photographs and written in a lively but objective tone, Wicks analyses important pieces of art, makes critical comparisons between thinkers, and offers a bold conclusion on our contemporary aesthetic situation. In an internet age, where we are presented with endless opportunity, but also startling existential questions, this is the definitive account of the evolution of continental thought in this hugely relevant and exciting area of philosophy.
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Oxford University Press Natural Law and Toleration in the Early
Book SynopsisThe early enlightenment has been seen as an epoch-making period in the development of modern Europe, marking the beginnings of the transition from a ''religious'' to an essentially ''secular'' understanding of human relations and generating in the process new accounts of the relationship between religion and politics, in which the idea of toleration figured centrally. In this volume of essays, leading scholars in the field challenge that view and explore the ways in which some of the most important discussions of toleration in the western tradition were shaped by understandings of natural theology and natural law. Far from representing a shift to non-religious ways of thinking about the world, the essays reveal the extent to which early enlightenment discussions of toleration presupposed a world-view in which God-given natural law established the boundaries between church and state and provided the primary point of reference for understanding claims to religious freedom. The book offerTable of Contents1. Religious Commitment and Secular Reason: Pufendorf on the Separation between Religion and Politics ; 2. Samuel Pufendorf and Religious Intolerance in the Early Enlightenment ; 3. Natural law, Nonconformity and Toleration: Two Stages on Locke's Way ; 4. John Locke and Natural Law: Free Worship and Toleration ; 5. The Tolerationist Programmes of Thomasius and Locke ; 6. Leibniz's Doctrine of Toleration: Philosophical, Theological, and Pragmatic Reasons ; 7. Toleration as Impartiality? Civil and Ecclesiastical Toleration in Jean Barbeyrac ; 8. Natural Rights or Political Prudence? Francis Hutcheson on Toleration ; Postface. The Grounds for Toleration and the Capacity to Tolerate
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The University of Chicago Press This Is Enlightenment
Book SynopsisDebates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. It establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Civilization From Enlightenment Philosophy to
Book SynopsisCivilization explores how Scottish Enlightenment theories played out in Canadian imaginaries and institutions: the state and society; the liberal and the conservative. E.A. Heaman’s case study identifies crucial spaces and moments of conceptual reversal to consider what was unique and what was broadly representative in Canadian civilization.Trade Review"Civilization bridges philosophy and Canadian history by blending insights from a major school of moral philosophy with certain founding practices, biases, and debates in nineteenth-century Canada. The result is extremely original and thought-provoking. The writing is rich: a pleasure to read and written in an individual style with a humanist’s regard for language and breadth of disciplines. I am convinced this book will have a lasting impact on Canadian scholarship about national values past and future." John Weaver, McMaster University"E.A. Heaman's lengthy and important new book engages with imperialism, colonization, residential schools, oppression, conquest, and much else in a Canadian context, but its overarching concept is that of civilization. More balanced in its assessment of imperial ambition and colonial folly ... Heaman's tome resists simple binaries of heroes and villains. …As Civilization demonstrates so well, a lot depends on who does the civilizing, to whom, and how.” Literary Review of Canada
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Indiana University Press Through the Eyes of Descartes
Book SynopsisI shall here present my life, writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, as in a painting and my method as a fable. Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images. Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination. In Through the Eyes of Descartes, Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.Trade Review"Through the Eyes of Descartes presents an unorthodox but highly compelling reading of Descartes' philosophical project. Against the tired old dogma of the "Cartesian split" between the mind and the body, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and Cecilia Sjöholm retrieve the philosophical significance of the body for the French thinker via their patient interpretations of Descartes' aesthetics, as well as his notions of love, maternity, meteorology, and the role of various bodily organs in the task of thinking. This is a new milestone in Descartes studies!"—Michael Marder, author of The Phoenix Complex: A Philosophy of Nature"Sjöholm and Cavalcante Schuback offer a new and original reading of Descartes. Descartes's work, over the centuries, has been interpreted as the account of the emergence of the European rationality that discovers the world through a rational intellect completely encapsulated within itself, detached from any exteriority, autonomous and autogenous, detached from the cosmos and nature. Through the Eyes of Descartes successfully challenges this monolithic image of Descartes' philosophy, thus rediscovering his work in a completely different light."—Giovanbattista Tusa, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Yale University Press Solomons Secret Arts
Book SynopsisThe late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. In this book, the author reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult.Trade Review"A definitive document of its material."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * Publisher's Weekly *“[A] serious yet lively work, chockablock with facts, anecdotes, and original research.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post -- Michael Dirda * The Washington Post *“A first-class study of the pursuit of the occult in England from the Restoration through 1815.”—Library Journal * Library Journal *"...[T]he book contains a wealth of information that adds to the ongoing scholarly conversations regarding the dynamics of the shifting fortunes of alchemy, astrology, and magic (both natural and ritual) in the early modern period."—Lawrence Principe, Chicago Journals -- Lawrence Principe * Chicago Journals *
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University of California Press Animation Plasticity and Music in Italy 17701830
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Harvard University Press On Theories
Book SynopsisThe final work of the esteemed philosopher William Demopoulos supplants logical empiricism’s accounts of physical theories, which fail to satisfactorily engage modern physics. Arguing for a new appreciation of the tightly woven character of theory and evidence, Demopoulos offers novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality.Trade ReviewDemopoulos has crafted a thoughtful and interesting interpretation of quantum mechanics that completes his earlier work of the mid-’70s…A wonderful tribute to a very significant philosopher. -- Adrian Heathcote * Metascience *Demopoulos wrote ‘for the eye of God and the good of my soul,’ as he used to say. On Theories is a stunning achievement, a profound argument for a novel thesis about the nature of truth in scientific theories, ranging from case studies about our understanding of molecular reality to Bohr’s dispute with Einstein about quantum reality. -- Jeffrey Bub, University of MarylandOn Theories, a painstaking analysis of the seemingly straightforward concept of theory, takes us on an exciting journey through twentieth-century science and philosophy of science. It critiques naïve dogmas such as the theory/observation dichotomy, replacing them with a nuanced account centered on the notion of ‘theory-mediated measurement.’ On the basis of this account, Demopoulos offers a novel interpretation of major breakthroughs in classical as well as quantum mechanics. Meticulous in its historical analysis and compelling in its philosophical argument, On Theories is a must for anyone interested in science and its method. -- Yemima Ben-Menahem, The Hebrew University of JerusalemWilliam Demopoulos was one of the leading philosophers of science of his generation. An accomplished logician whose mastery of the logicist tradition was unequaled, he was just as productive in contemporary philosophy of physics, especially philosophy of quantum physics. On Theories brings to a stunning close a line of research he actively pursued for the last two decades: the epistemology and ontology of physical theories. This is not only an important book but a rare landmark in the development of the discipline. -- Thomas Uebel, University of Manchester
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Princeton University Press Between Two Worlds
Book SynopsisPresents a commentary on - and reinterpretation of - the founding work of modern philosophy, "Descartes' Meditations". This title provides a reading of the text, giving an account of the positions against which Descartes was reacting, and revealing anew the unity, meaning, and originality of the Meditations.Trade Review"Between Two Worlds displays a very strong and textually based reading. It would have enormous value to those with a serious interest in understanding Descartes."--Michael Pereira, Metapsychology.net "Carriero offers a powerful and controversial explanation... Because of its systematic ability to deepen our understanding of every aspect of the Meditations, Between Two Worlds sets the standard for interpretations of the Meditations for the foreseeable future."--Michael Della Rocca, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Like the best philosophical writing, Carriero's book constantly stimulates reflections that take us beyond the minutiae of textual interpretation to wider philosophical (and indeed theological) issues. This is not to say that the work is lacking in scholarly detail; on the contrary, it is marked from first to last by the most meticulous attention to the text... [Carriero] creates for the reader a delightful sense of being alone with Descartes as he wrestles with Aquinas--a contest of champions, beautifully described."--John Cottingham, Mind "Between Two Worlds is a real achievement: a wonderful combination of philosophical insight and close textual analysis; from now on an essential vade mecum for any serious reader of the Meditations."--RogerWoolhouse, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface ix Note on Translations xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The First Meditation 27 Chapter 2: The Second Meditation 65 Chapter 3: (I) The Third Meditation: The Truth Rule and the "Chief and Most Common Mistake" 128 Chapter 3: (II) The Third Meditation: Two Demonstrations of God's Existence 168 Chapter 4: The Fourth Meditation 223 Chapter 5: The Fifth Meditation 280 Chapter 6: The Sixth Meditation 359 Notes 427 Bibliography 489 Index Locorum 495 Subject Index 505
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Princeton University Press Reason and Rationality
Book SynopsisSeeks to bridge the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior. This book proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior.Trade Review"For those with some grounding in the study of human behaviour, Elster does a remarkable job of bringing together seemingly disparate concerns... [T]his essay (as it effectively is) provides a concise overview of his dominant concerns and a useful introduction to his thought."--Ben Saunders, Political Studies Review "I highly recommend the book, which explains in clear and simple terms the complexity of human behavior and the logic that underlies it."--Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, European LegacyTable of ContentsReason and Rationality Works Cited
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Princeton University Press The Secular Enlightenment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[A] lively and engaging book. . . . [The Secular Enlightenment] is a refreshingly straightforward defence and even celebration of the Enlightenment and its secular values."---Helena Rosenblatt, Literary Review"The book is an engaging and highly readable tour de force which deserves the widest circulation."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"Jacob is a titan in the modern historiography of the Enlightenment and . . . [The Secular Enlightenment] is simultaneously the culmination of half a century of pioneering research, a measured introduction to the subject for first-time readers, and a pugnacious call to arms."---Sophus A. Reinert, Journal of Modern History"[A] deeply researched and highly readable book."---Michael Levin, European Legacy"In The Secular Enlightenment, Margaret C. Jacob offers a social history of the intellectual movement in the long 18th century that valued the pursuit of knowledge through rigorous reason and scientific evidence. Focusing on cities and ideas from throughout Europe during this time, [Jacob] masterfully blends panoramic scope with vivid detail."---David Greder, Reading Religion
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Princeton University Press A History of Ambiguity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A History of Ambiguity is unambiguously wonderful – the sort of book I thought no one could write any more . . . Ossa-Richardson’s book is an epic love song to scholarship . . . . it’s well written and intelligently funny. Ossa-Richardson has the big picture in mind."---Robert Eaglestone, Times Higher Education"Ossa-Richardson demonstrates his mastery of the two classic attributes of the intellectual historian: first, a willingness to do justice to the variety of forms that ideas can take, and second, a close attention to detail in the establishment of intellectual genealogies. As a work of intellectual history, this book is a remarkable achievement."---James Everest, Essays in Criticism
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Princeton University Press Frederick the Greats Philosophical Writings
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection reveals the extent to which Frederick was engaged with the debates of the French Enlightenment and offers a textured picture of his intellectual world. . . . An invaluable tool."---Anton M. Matytsin, Journal of Modern History
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Princeton University Press Adam Smiths America
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers""Intriguing. . . . Capacious. . . . Rich."---Kim Phillips-Fein, New Republic"How did Adam Smith become as American as apple pie? Wisely skipping over the ‘mesmerizingly mundane’ life of the man, about whom we know little, Glory Liu offers a biography of Adam Smith the idea. Traversing three centuries of American thought in fluid prose, Ms. Liu finds traces of Smith in his inspiration of the founding generation, as grist for 19th-century debates over free trade, and as a celebrated apostle of the free market during the Cold War. Synthesizing a wave of recent scholarship on Smith, Ms. Liu elevates his Theory of Moral Sentiments over his canonical Wealth of Nations."---Jennifer Burns, Wall Street Journal (Five Best Biographies of Economists)"A fascinating tour of American economic theory and debate from the late 18th century to the present. . . . Liu’s book is more than an examination of the twists and turns in American economic debate, for it also raises profound questions about economics as a discipline and terrain of debate."---Colin Kidd, New Statesman"This is an excellent book."---Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality and More 3.0"[Adam Smith’s America] illuminates how the ways that readers approach a text become part of that text’s story. . . . A model for doing reception history well."---Rebecca Brenner Graham, Slate"Exemplary. . . . Liu presents Smith’s reception history as a unique window into what she calls the nation’s ‘politics of political economy.’ She is right. . . . Liu demonstrates just how malleable ideologically the interpretation of Smith has been over time."---Jonathan Levy, Boston Review"[A] provocative analysis of Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith’s influence on U.S. politics and business. . . . This is a rewarding reconsideration of an influential thinker." * Publishers Weekly *"The iconic economist has become all things to all people over time, from Friedman-esque libertarian to anti-capitalist crusader. . . . Even if Chicago, the Heritage Foundation, and other right-leaning entities have tried to seize him for their cause, Liu examines the possibility that he may be ‘closer to the values of the contemporary left’—thus are the many ambiguities in his work. A bracing study not just of Smith’s ideas, but also of how scholars and activists have used (and misused) them." * Kirkus Reviews *"Masterful."---David Bahnsen, Religion & Liberty Online"Fascinating."---Greg Olear, PREVAIL"Lucid and compelling. . . . Adam Smith’s America is an impressively researched and deftly executed book."---Robin Douglass, Global Intellectual History"Maybe it’s a moonshot to imagine lanyard-festooned Seattleite techies as a revolutionary vanguard, but, whatever your political visions: There’s a Smith for that."---Adam Willems, The Stranger"Outstanding work."---Matteo Santarelli, Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas"A detailed and well-researched account of the reception of Adam Smith in America."---Maria Pia Paganelli, History of Economic Thought and Policy
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Princeton University Press Mandevilles Fable
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An astute and engaging work of intellectual history. . . . Mr. Douglass’s book insightfully probes Mandeville’s account of prideful sociability, testing it against the criticism of, among others, David Hume."---Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal"Mandeville’s Fable is an enviably learned volume. Lucidly written and judicious in tone, Douglass’ treatment of Mandeville as a social philosopher par excellence sets a high bar for scholars who hope to walk the interpretive tightrope between intellectual history and philosophy as effortlessly as he does."---Glory M. Liu, Centre for the Study of Governance & Society"[Mandeville’s Fable] is a work of serious scholarship. . . . Douglass provides a clear and compelling account of Mandeville’s moral and social thought, one that establishes its subject as a serious thinker whose provocative and ‘unsettling’ . . . ideas retain today their power to provoke and unsettle."---Brandon Turner, Perspectives on Politics"[An] excellent book." * Choice *
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Princeton University Press A History of Ambiguity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A History of Ambiguity is unambiguously wonderful – the sort of book I thought no one could write any more . . . Ossa-Richardson’s book is an epic love song to scholarship . . . . it’s well written and intelligently funny. Ossa-Richardson has the big picture in mind."---Robert Eaglestone, Times Higher Education"Ossa-Richardson demonstrates his mastery of the two classic attributes of the intellectual historian: first, a willingness to do justice to the variety of forms that ideas can take, and second, a close attention to detail in the establishment of intellectual genealogies. As a work of intellectual history, this book is a remarkable achievement."---James Everest, Essays in Criticism
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Princeton University Press Deep Time
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Coyer and the Enlightenment
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation MiscellanyM233langes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsJerry L. Curtis, La Providence: vicissitudes du dieu Voltairien Introduction I. La Période de l'optimisme cosmique II. La Saison du doute III. La Grande crise IV. L'Evolution vers l'absurde Conclusion David Berry, The Technique of literary digression in the fiction of Diderot Introduction Chapter I. The Philosophical works: literary antecedents of the digression in Diderot's work with reference to certain 'œuvres-clés' Chapter II. Les Bijoux indiscrets Chapter III. La Religieuse Chapter IV. Le Neveu de Rameau Chapter V. Jacques le fataliste Conclusion
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation MiscellanyM233langes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsSteve Larkin, Voltaire and Prévost: a reappraisal Theodore E. D. Braun and Gerald R. Culley, Aeschylus, Voltaire, and Le Franc de Pompignan's Prométhée: a critical edition
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Madame de Graffigny and Rousseau between the two Discours
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Voltaire and the English
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTransactions of the Oxford Colloquium held at the Taylor Institution from 26 to 28 May 1978 R. Pomeau, Les Lettres philosophiques: le projet de Voltaire A.-M. Rousseau, Naissance d'un livre et d'un texte: les Letters concerning the English nation W. H. Barber, Voltaire and Samuel Clarke P. Casini, Briarée en miniature: Voltaire et Newton D. Williams, Voltaire's war with England: the appeal to Europe 1760-1764 S. S. B. Taylor, Voltaire's humour J. Scherer, 'L'univers en raccourci': quelques ambitions du roman voltairien J. Vercruysse, Voltaire, Sisyphe en Jermanie: vers la meilleurs des éditions possibles Catalogue of an exhibition of books and manuscripts shown in the Divinity School, Bodleian Library from 2 to 27 May 1978 G. Barber, Voltaire and the English: catalogue of an exhibition W. H. Barber, Voltaire et Newton Norma Perry, The Rainbow, the White Peruke and the Bedford Head: Voltaire's London haunts W. H. Barber, Theodore Besterman
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation MiscellanyM233langes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsVoltaire's British visitors, edited by Sir Gavin de Beer Lester G. Crocker, Voltaire's struggle for humanism Max I. Baym, John Fiske and Voltaire Voltaire's correspondence: additions III, edited by Theodore Besterman Theodore Besterman, Note on the authorship of the Connaissance des beautés Review: René Pomeau, La Religion de Voltaire
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation MiscellanyM233langes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAlfred J. Bingham, Voltaire and the Encyclopédie méthodique E. R. Briggs, Pierre Cuppé's debts to England and Holland Peter Gay, Voltaire's Idées républicaines: a study in bibliography and interpretation Jack Undank, Est-il bon? Est-il méchant?: manuscrits et dates de composition P. M. Conlon, Voltaire's election to the Accademia della Crusca Une lettre inédite de Baculard d'Arnaud à Duclos sur l'affaire de Berlin, présentée par René Duthil et Paul Dimoff Ruth T. Murdoch, Voltaire, James Thomson, and a poem for the Marquise Du Châtelet Robert Shackleton, Voltaire et Montesquieu: a false attribution Bertrand Russell, Voltaire's influence on me Voltaire's correspondence: additions IV, edited by Theodore Besterman The manuscripts of the Institut et Musée Voltaire
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation MiscellanyM233langes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsHywel Berwyn Evans, A provisional bibliography of English editions and translations of Voltaire Theodore Besterman, Some eighteenth-century Voltaire editions unknown to Bengesco (with 35 figures) Jean-Daniel Candaux, Review: Ira O. Wade, The Search for a new Voltaire
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation MiscellanyM233langes
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsMargaret Chenais, New light on the publication of the Pucelle Theodore Besterman, The Terra-cotta statue of Voltaire made by Houdon for Beaumarchais J. Th. de Booy, La traduction française de Di una riforma d'Italia de Pilati di Tassulo A. C. Keys, Bret, Douxmenil and the Mémoires of Ninon de Lanclos Jerome Vercruysse, Quelques vers inédits de Voltaire Françoise Weil, A propos du 'portrait' anonyme de Voltaire Voltaire's directions to the actors in Irène, edited by Theodore Besterman Voltaire's correspondence: Additions VI, edited by Theodore Besterman Reviews
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsMerle L. Perkins, Voltaire and the Abbé de Saint-Pierre on world peace J. H. Brumfitt, Voltaire and Warburton Samuel Taylor, La Collaboration de Voltaire au Théâtre français (1767-1769) Virgil W. Topazio, Rousseau, man of contradictions Oscar A. Haac, L'Amour dans les collèges Jésuites : une satire anonyme du dix-huitième siècle Alfred J. Bingham, The Recueil philosophique et littéraire A. C. Keys, The vicissitudes of the Mémoires of Ninon de Lanclos Colin Duckworth, Flaubert and Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique J. Vercruysse, La Marquise Du Châtelet, prévote d'une confrérie bruxelloise Jean Daniel Candaux, La Publication de Candide à Paris Madeleine Fields, La Première édition française de la Princese de Babylone J. Th. de Booy, L'Abbé Coger, dit Coge Pecus, lecteur de Voltaire et de d'Holbach Jean Daniel Candaux, Les Débuts de François Grasset Voltaire's British visitors, edited by Sir Gavin de Beer and André Michel Rousseau Theodore Besterman, A provisional bibliography of Italian editions and translations of Voltaire
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPauline Kra, The Invisible chain of the Lettres persanes J. Vercruysse, C'est la faute à Rousseau, c'est la faute à Voltaire Jean A. Perkins, Diderot's concept of virtue Stephen J. Gendzier, Diderot's impact on the generation of 1830 Une anecdote de Diderot sur le Système de la Nature, publiée par J. Th. de Booy J. Lough, Luneau de Boisjermain v. the publishers of the Encyclopédie J. H. Broome, 'L'Homme au cœur velu': the turbulent career of Fougeret de Monbron J. Th. de Booy, Henri Meister et le première édition de la Correspondance littéraire (1812-1813) Lester G. Crocker, L'Analyse des rêves au XVIIIe siècle
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsArticles inédits de Voltaire pour le dictionnaire de l'Académie française, publiés par J. Vercruysse David L. Gobert, Comic in Micromégas as expressive of theme Jean A. Perkins, Voltaire and the natural sciences P. D. Jimack, Rousseau misquoting Voltaire? John Van Eerde, Aspects of social criticism in eighteenth-century French comedy Harriet Dorothy Rothschild, Benoît de Maillet's Marseilles letters Robert L. Myers, Fréron's critique of Rémond de Saint Mard Pierre M. Conlon, Additions to the bibliography of Bossuet
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsJ. Vercruysse, Satire inédite de Voltaire contre J. J. Lefranc de Pompignan Alfred J. Bingham, The earliest criticism of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique James R. Knowlson and Harold T. Betteridge, The Voltaire-Hirschel dispute: unpublished letters and documents Theodore Besterman, A Provisional bibliography of Scandinavian and Finnish editions and translations of Voltaire Gita May, Voltaire a-t-il fait une offre d'hospitalité à Rousseau? Un témoignage peu connu par Jean Marie Roland R. A. Leigh, Observations on the dating of certain Rousseau letters Harry Redman, Marivaux's reputation among his contemporaries Marguerite Marie D. Stevens, L'Idéalisme et le réalisme dans Les Egarements du cœur et de l'esprit de Crébillon fils John Hampton, The Literary technique of the first two Mémoires of Beaumarchais against Goezman D. J. Fletcher, The fortunes of Bolingbroke in France in the eighteenth century R. G. Saisselin, The Rococo muddle Review: Jacques Vier, Histoire de la littérature française
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPierre Haffter, L'Usage satirique des causales dans les contes de Voltaire Dennis J. Fletcher, Bolingbroke and the diffusion of Newtonianism in France Patrick Brady, The Lettres persanes: rococo or neo-classical? M. L. Perkins, Rousseau on history, liberty, and national survival John Renwick, Reconstruction and interpretation of the genesis of the Bélisaire affair, with an unpublished letter from Marmontel to Voltaire Christopher Todd, La Harpe quarrels with the actors: unpublished correspondence Patrick Brady, Manon Lescaut: classical, romantic, or rococo?
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsJ. Vercruysse, Bibliographie des écrits français relatifs à Voltaire, 1719-1830 André G. Bourassa, Polémique et propagande dans Rome sauvée et Les Triumvirs de Voltaire O. R Taylor, La Henriade: a complementary note R. J. Howells, The Metaphysic of nature: basic values and their application in the social philosophy of Rousseau R. G. Saisselin, Rousseau and portraiture: from representation to fiction Norma Perry, A Forged letter from Frederick to Voltaire C. Kiernan, Helvétius and a science of ethics Jean A. Perkins, Irony and candour in certain libertin novels R. L. Myers, Rémond dialogues Norma Perry, John Vansommer of Spitalfields: Huguenot, silk-designer, and correspondent of Voltaire Harriet Dorothy Rothschild, Benoît de Maillet's letters to the marquis de Caumont
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsJean Leduc, Les Sources de l'athéisme et de l'immoralisme du marquis de Sade George B. Watts, Charles Joseph Panckoucke, 'l'Atlas de la librairie française'
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Religion in Montesquieus Lettres Persanes
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsDouglas A. Bonneville, Candide as symbolic experience Theodore Besterman, A Preliminary bibliography of Portuguese translations of Voltaire Colin Duckworth, Madame Denis's unpublished Pamela: a link between Richardson, Goldoni and Voltaire Maija B. May, Comte d'Argental: a magistrate in the literary world Theodore E. D. Braun, Le Franc de Pompignan et la moralité du théâtre John Renwick, Jean François Marmontel: the formative years 1753-1765 Eve Katz, Marmontel and the voice of experience
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsArnold Ages, The Private Voltaire: three studies in the correspondence Madeleine Alcover, La Casuistique du père Tout à tous et Les Provinciales Brian N. Morton, Beaumarchais et le prospectus de l'édition de Kehl Lawrence J. Forno, The Fictional letter in the memoir novel: Robert Challe's Illustres Françoises Ronald C. Rosbottom, Parody and truth in Mme Riccoboni's continuation of La Vie de Marianne Hartmut Häusser, The Thomasius article in the Encyclopédie R. A. Leigh, The First edition of the Lettre à Christophe de Beaumont (with two plates)
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsNorman Hampson and Betty Behrens, Cultural history as infrastructure Norman Suckling, The Unfulfilled Renaissance: an essay on the fortunes of enlightened humanism in the 18th century Charles G. Stricklen, Jr., The Philosophe's political mission: the creation of an idea, 1750-1789 Stephen Werner, Diderot's Supplément and late Enlightenment thought
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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCarolyn Wilberger, Peter the great: an eighteenth-century hero of our times? I. Background to debate: Peter the great and his French interpreters, 1700-1762 II. Voltaire versus Rousseau III. The View from France IV. The View from Russia William R. Womack, Eighteenth-century themes in the Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes of Guillame Raynal I. Introduction II. Anti-colonialism III. Slavery IV. Government V. Economics VI. Religion VII. Noble savage VIII. Nature IX. Conclusion Select bibliography
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