Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity

John R Hinde

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 29
• Offers a compelling and timely interpretative and synthetic analysis of Burckhardt's challenge to the values and assumptions of modern society, placin... Lees meer

Democratic Legitimacy, 34

Frederick M Barnard

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Barnard argues that Western democracy, if it is to continue to exist as a legitimate political system, must maintain the integrity of its application ... Lees meer

Durkheim, Morals, and Modernity, 20

Watts Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Watts Miller highlights Durkheim's communitarian route to liberalism and abolishes ill-conceived ideas that Durkheim is at heart conservative in outlo... Lees meer

An Aristotelian Account of Induction, 49

Louis Groarke

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• In An Aristotelian Account of Induction Groarke discusses the intellectual process through which we access the "first principles" of human thought - t... Lees meer

The More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre

Cara Camcastle

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 41
• An innovative analysis that places new light on Maistre's thought such as his conception of government as groups in dynamic counterbalance, and the as... Lees meer

The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination

Sam Solecki

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden t... Lees meer

Before Copernicus

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• A multi-disciplinary approach to Copernicus's momentous transformation from geocentric to heliocentric cosmology. Lees meer

The Age of Secularization

Augusto del Noce

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Augusto Del Noce is widely considered one of Italy's foremost philosophers and political thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. He is a... Lees meer

The Recovery of Wonder

Kenneth Schmitz

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 39
• A reflection on the current thinking about our social, cultural, and natural environment and a significant advance towards a philosophy of the concret... Lees meer

Labeling People

Martin S Staum

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 36
• Nineteenth-century French scholars, during a turbulent era of revolution and industrialization, ranked intelligence and character according to facial ... Lees meer

Problems of Cartesianism

Thomas M Lennon

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• The typical Cartesian collection contains papers which treat the problems arising out of Descartes's philosophy as though they and it appeared for the... Lees meer

The Form of Politics

John Von Heyking

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• A study of Aristotle’s and Plato’s interpretations of friendship and their significance for political life. Lees meer

Social and Political Bonds

F M Barnard

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 50
• Warning specifically against official moralistic rhetoric, the ignoring of civic demands, and hidden acts of power by anonymous governmental bureaucra... Lees meer

Lines Drawn Across the Globe

Mary C Fuller

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find... Lees meer

Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace

Jean-François Drolet

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profo... Lees meer

Consent, Coercion, and Limit, 10

Arthur P Monahan

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• In addition, he deals with the development of these concepts in Roman and canon law and in the practices of the emerging states of France and England ... Lees meer

The Age of Secularization

Augusto del Noce

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Augusto Del Noce is widely considered one of Italy's foremost philosophers and political thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. He is a... Lees meer

Democratic Legitimacy

Frederick M Barnard

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• Barnard argues that Western democracy, if it is to continue to exist as a legitimate political system, must maintain the integrity of its application ... Lees meer

The Crisis of Modernity

Augusto del Noce, Carlo Lancellotti

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• In his native Italy Augusto Del Noce is regarded as one of the preeminent political thinkers and philosophers of the period after the Second World War... Lees meer

The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity

Gerald A Press

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 2
• Presents a general view - that the Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian cultures were fundamentally alien and opposed cultural forces and that, therefore... Lees meer

Progress, Pluralism, and Politics

David Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 79
• Liberal thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were alert to the political costs and human cruelties involved in European colonialism, bu... Lees meer

Inequality in Canada

Eric W Sager

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
• In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining - but hardest to define - ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and cont... Lees meer

Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme, 27

Paola Mayer

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 27
• Addresses the romantic reception of mystic Jakob Bohme. Lees meer

MR Simson's Knotty Case, 31

Anne Skoczylas

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas | nr. 31
• A cross-disciplinary study of the complicated academic world of Glasgow in the first decades of the eighteenth century, when the Presbyterian theology... Lees meer