History of Ideas

Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, ...

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shape...

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shape...

John Dewey (18591952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not ...

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear fam...

This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading...

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In...

Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain explores the rise and nature of historicist thinking about such varied topics as life, race...

During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, ...

Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literatu...

While it has often been recognised that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that ...

Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, ...

For those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have something t...

Virgil's fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literature. This study traces the fortunes of Eclogue 4...

The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edm...

This is the first book-length study of one of the most influential traditions in eighteenth-century Anglophone moral and political thought, 'theolo...

This first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution a...

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

With tribes and individual Indians increasingly participating in American electoral politics, this study examines the ways in which tribes work tog...