Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought

Joshua Derman

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 102
• Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave s... Lees meer

Adversaries and Authorities

G E R Lloyd

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 42
• Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book consists of a series of detailed ... Lees meer

The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555 1590

Martin Van Gelderen

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 23
• This book is a comprehensive study of the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt (1555-90). It explores the development of the political... Lees meer

Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 1, Democracy and Civic Freedom

James Tully

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 93
• These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James... Lees meer

Rival Enlightenments

Ian Hunter

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 60
• Rival Enlightenments is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and ... Lees meer

Enlightenment and Utility

Emmanuelle de Champs

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 110
• Jeremy Bentham, the founder of classical utilitarianism, was a seminal figure in the history of modern political thought. This lively monograph presen... Lees meer

Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy

Fonna Forman-Barzilai

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 96
• This 2010 text pursues Adam Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law both in historical context an... Lees meer

Renaissance Civic Humanism

James Hankins

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 57
• Civic Humanism has been one of the most influential concepts in the history of ideas ever since the pioneering work of Hans Baron and J. G. A. Pocock.... Lees meer

The Origins of American Social Science

Dorothy Ross

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 19
• Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itse... Lees meer

The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968

Edward Baring

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 98
• In this powerful new study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twen... Lees meer

The Enlightenment's Fable

E J Hundert

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 31
• The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated du... Lees meer

Philosophy in History

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 1
• The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual ... Lees meer

Jesuit Political Thought

Harro Höpfl

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 70
• How did the Society of Jesus develop and maintain a distinctive position on key questions of political thought such as ruler authority, the character ... Lees meer

The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory

Simon Grote

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 117
• Broad in its geographic scope and yet grounded in original archival research, this book situates the inception of modern aesthetic theory - the philos... Lees meer

Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 1, Democracy and Civic Freedom

James Tully

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 93
• These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James... Lees meer

Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism

D Weinstein

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 83
• In this study, David Weinstein argues that nineteenth-century English New Liberalism was considerably more indebted to classical English utilitarianis... Lees meer

The Origins of American Social Science

Dorothy Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 19
• Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itse... Lees meer

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

David Colclough

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 72
• This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisti... Lees meer

Virtue, Commerce, and History

J G a Pocock

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 2
• This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several o... Lees meer

Rousseau and Geneva

Helena Rosenblatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 46
• Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way ... Lees meer

Recovering Liberties

C A Bayly

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 100
• One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji... Lees meer

The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 4
• This volume studies the concept of a political 'language', of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has... Lees meer

Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

Gregory Conti

• Paperback | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 119
• The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorian era - the epoch when the modern democratic sta... Lees meer

Defining Science

Richard Yeo

• Hardcover | Engels | Ideas in Context | nr. 27
• Defining Science deals with the major role of the historian and philosopher of science, William Whewell, in early Victorian debates about the nature o... Lees meer