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Ideas in Context Series

48 primary works • 48 total works
The books in this series discuss the emergence of intellectual traditions and related new disciplines. The procedures, aims and vocabularies that were generated will be set in the context of the alternatives available within the contemporary frameworks of ideas and institutions. Through detailed studies of the evolution of such traditions, and thei…
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
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3.42 · 93 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2000 · 11 editions
David Armitage presents the first comprehensive hi…

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    Toleration in Conflict: Past and Present
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    4.00     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 8 editions
    The concept of toleration plays a central role in …

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    Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2013 · 7 editions
    The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament …

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    Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought: From Charisma to Canonization
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    4.00     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 8 editions
    Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundat…

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    Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2013 · 7 editions
    John Stuart Mill (1806–73) is widely regarded as t…

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    The Taming Of Chance
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    3.90     · 255 Ratings · 26 Reviews · published 1990 · 15 editions
    In this important new study Ian Hacking continues …

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    Machiavelli and Republicanism
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    3.82     · 17 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1991 · 8 editions
    This highly acclaimed volume brings together some …

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    The Origins of American Social Science
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    3.92     · 25 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1990 · 11 editions
    Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociolog…

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    An Approach To Political Philosophy: Locke In Contexts
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    3.83     · 6 Ratings · published 1993 · 6 editions
    An Approach To Political Philosophy: Locke In Cont…

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    Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2007 · 9 editions
    In a powerful and original contribution to the his…

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    The Social and Political Thought of Bertrand Russell
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · published 1995 · 3 editions
    This pioneering study of Bertrand Russell's social…

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    The American Language of Rights
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    4.00     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 7 editions
    Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods i…

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    Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2007 · 8 editions
    In this study, David Weinstein argues that ninetee…

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    Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and Moral Theory
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    This 2010 text pursues Adam Smith's views on moral…

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    The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 8 editions
    Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed t…

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    The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1995 · 8 editions
    Drawing on a historicist perspective, this book ex…

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    Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2008 · 8 editions
    Professor Rosenblatt presents a study of Benjamin …

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    Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500 – 1625
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1999 · 7 editions
    Andrew Fitzmaurice reveals that English expansion …

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    Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
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    4.00     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1999 · 10 editions
    Pierre Force studies the history of the concept of…

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    Measurement in Psychology
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    4.64     · 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1995 · 9 editions
    This book traces how such a seemingly immutable id…

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    The World of Mr Casaubon: Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700–1870
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2016 · 5 editions
    The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of dep…

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    The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing
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    3.92     · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions
    The Young Karl Marx is an innovative and important…

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    Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c.1540–1630
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2004 · 8 editions
    How did the Society of Jesus develop and maintain …

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    Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science: Histories of Philosophy in England, c. 1640–1700
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2015 · 1 edition
    Seventeenth-century England has long been heralded…

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    The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 8 editions
    Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melanchol…

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    The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
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    4.14     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2004 · 8 editions
    Tracing the influence of ancient Greek sources on …

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    Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to The Social Contract, 1749–1762
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    4.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 5 editions
    Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects …

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    The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History
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    4.09     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 8 editions
    This book provides a way to understand a momentous…

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    Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice
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    3.50     · 6 Ratings · published 1998 · 13 editions
    In this important contribution to the cultural and…

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    Machiavelli and Empire
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2004 · 10 editions
    Exploring both the political and intellectual cont…

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    The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour
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    3.00     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 8 editions
    Arguments about the practice of the duel in early …

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    Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2007 · 12 editions
    Beginning with a sustained analysis of Seneca's th…

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    French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society?
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    4.15     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 7 editions
    This study makes a major contribution to our under…

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    Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution
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    4.00     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 13 editions
    This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts re…

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    Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1993 · 8 editions
    Defining Science deals with the major role of the …

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    Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2005 · 6 editions
    Are human beings linked by a common nature, one th…

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    The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968
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    4.23     · 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2011 · 7 editions
    In this powerful new study Edward Baring sheds fre…

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    The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance
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    3.29     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 7 editions
    Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentr…

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    The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
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    4.75     · 4 Ratings · published 1994 · 7 editions
    The apprehension of society as an aggregation of s…

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    The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680 - 1760
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    3.54     · 13 Ratings · published 2005 · 10 editions
    Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the En…

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    The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius
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    0.00     · published 2007 · 7 editions
    Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a tireless cam…

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    Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2001 · 11 editions
    Rival Enlightenments is a major reinterpretation o…

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    Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640–1700
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    3.50     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
    Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most i…

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    Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 8 editions
    This book analyses the laws that shaped modern Eur…

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    Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2000 · 12 editions
    This study examines the development of natural law…

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    Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · published 2006 · 6 editions
    Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analy…

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    Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2007 · 8 editions
    This wide-ranging and original 2007 study provides…

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    The Crisis of German Historicism: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2015 · 7 editions
    Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss - two major politica…

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