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Household Politics
Conflict in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blather—not that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of people rolled their eyes at them. Indeed many held that a man had to be an idiot...
Critically Mediterranean
Temporalities, Aesthetics, and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Traversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to bear upon the modern and contemporary periods....
Descartes' Meditations
A Critical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations and explores issues such as scepticism, judgement,...
Kant's Theory of Normativity
Exploring the Space of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Konstantin Pollok offers the first book-length analysis of Kant's theory of normativity that covers foundational issues in theoretical and practical philosophy as well as aesthetics. Interpreting Kant's 'critical turn' as a normative turn, he argues that Kant's theory of normativity is both original...
From Kant to Davidson
Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Recent philosophy has seen the idea of the transcendental, first introduced in its modern form in the work of Kant, take on a new prominence.
Bringing together an international range of younger philosophers and established thinkers, this volume opens up the idea of the transcendental, examining it...
Kant's Philosophical Revolution
A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophy
Perhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult...
by David Cunning
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades. David Cunning's monograph proposes a...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gender and contemporary consumer cultures in post-authoritarian Southern European societies.
The book sees a diverse group of international scholars from across the social...
Populists and Patricians (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in Modern German History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in 1987, this collection of essays, from one of the leading historians in the field, is concerned with the central debates about German history from Bismarck to Hitler. David Blackbourn questions many previously held assumptions, whether about the natural conservatism of the German...
Spectral Sea
Mediterranean Palimpsests in European Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
From the dawn of ancient civilization to modern times, the Mediterranean Sea looms in the imagination of the people living on its shores as a space of myth and adventure, of conquest and confrontation, of migration and settlement, of religious ferment and conflict. Since its waters linked the earliest...
Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume II (1934)
The Enlightenment 1687 - 1776
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools. The need is now, surely, for...
by Robert Henke
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750. The particular focus is on the nature of playing spaces, staging, acting and audience response in professional theatre and the selection of previously...
Constituent Power and Constitutional Order
Above, Within and Beside the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Constituent power of the people is a core concept of modern politics but what does this concept actually mean? This book addresses this question, sketching how constituent power of the people has been conceived since the early modern revolutions.
by Daniel D. Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The middle years of the nineteenth century saw two crucial develop ments in the history of modern logic: George Boole's algebraic treat ment of logic and Augustus De Morgan's formulation of the logic of relations. The former episode has been studied extensively; the latter, hardly at all. This...