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by Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the father of modern political thought, but he is also one of the greatest writers of the Renaissance and his wisdom and style extend far beyond politics to encompass a compelling philosophy of life as well. In The Quotable Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli, one of...
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss
The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer—"Jew Süss"—is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl...
Made with Words
Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political...
by J. Peter Euben
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Platonic Noise brings classical and contemporary writings into conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics. Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben shows us the relevance of both popular literature and ancient...
On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
A Philosophical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the light of his epistemology,...
The Opinion of Mankind
Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How David Hume and Adam Smith forged
a new way of thinking about the modern state
What is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David Hume and Adam Smith's long-underappreciated...
The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus—a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the...
Circles Disturbed
The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don't disturb my...
by José Ferreirós
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice. Charting an exciting new direction in the philosophy of mathematics, José Ferreirós uses the crucial idea of a continuum to provide...
Truth and Truthfulness
An Essay in Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value...
Politics and Vision
Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its...
Liberating Judgment
Fanatics, Skeptics, and John Locke's Politics of Probability
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government. The book argues that the work of John Locke instills a civic judgment that...
The Translation Zone
A New Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework...
Reordering the World
Essays on Liberalism and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain—at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political thought—Duncan Bell sheds new light on some of...