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  • Against the Death Penalty

    Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

    by Cesare Beccaria, Giuseppie Pelli ...
    The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal-law reform, yet he was ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Wokler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's ... Read more

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  • Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on the Origin of Inequality, he outlines his own history of the development of human society. He explains in general terms how the differences between social and economic classes arose alongside the formation of modern states. He also explores the means by which these inequalities were actually built into and perpetuated by the foundational notions of modern ... Read more

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  • The Forum and the Tower

    How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

    by Mary Ann Glendon ...
    As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the meeting ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Roads to Modernity

    The British, French, and American Enlightenments

    by Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the ... Read more

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  • The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    This "fresh new rendition of Rousseau's major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike"—with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University).Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been ... Read more

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  • Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

    by Cesare Beccaria, Aaron Thomas ...
    Translated by Jeremy Parzen ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Liberty of Servants

    Berlusconi's Italy

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    A compelling look at how a people can be unfree even though they are not oppressedItaly is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants. Drawing upon the ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Brief History

    by Sir Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series Very Brief Histories
    'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.'VoltaireMontesquieu, Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, Smith, Gibbon, Bentham... These are among the great thinkers who contributed to the dramatic developments in religion, science and philosophy that we now call the Enlightenment. They dominated the second half of the eighteenth century and their writings continue to shape the intellectual and ... Read more

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  • The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 2, The Age of Reformation

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Crime in Medieval Europe

    1200-1550

    by Trevor Dean ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative ... Read more

    $70.99 USD