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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

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters

    by Megan Gallagher, Ryan Patrick Hanley, Rebecca Kingston, Peter Lund, Michael Mosher, Emily Nacol, Andrea Radasanu, Helena Rosenblatt, John T. Scott, Robert Sparling, Céline Spector, Lee Ward, Stuart D. Warner, Dr. Pauline Kra, Vickie B. Sullivan ...
    This book’s primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, a seminal book in classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich, sympathetic satire of commercial society’s promise and discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped the direction of liberal modernity. It consists of a series of letters largely written by ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Rousseau's God

    Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man

    by John T. Scott ...
    A landmark study of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought.John T. Scott offers a comprehensive interpretation of Rousseau’s theological and religious thought, both in its own right and in relation to Rousseau’s broader oeuvre. In chapters focused on different key writings, Scott reveals recurrent themes in Rousseau’s views on the subject and traces their evolution over time. He shows that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Enlightenment and Secularism

    Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

    by Fred Baumann, Alice Behnegar, Nasser Behnegar, Mark Blitz, Henry C. Clark, Dean DiSpalatro, Brian J. Glenn, Ryan Hanley, Jeffrey L. High, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Andrea Radasanu, John T. Scott, Susan Meld Shell, Benjamin Storey, Friederike von Schwerin-High, Andre Wakefield, Allan Arkush, Jeremy D. Bailey, David Biale, Robert Faulkner, David Janssens, Ralph Lerner, Rafael Major, Paul A. Rahe, George Thomas ...
    Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Rousseau's Reader

    Strategies of Persuasion and Education

    by John T. Scott ...
    On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot, Rousseau had what he called an “illumination”—the realization that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the influence of society—a fundamental change in Rousseau’s perspective that would animate all of his subsequent works. At that moment, Rousseau “saw” something he had hitherto not seen, and he made it his mission to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Public Goods, Public Gains

    Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D

    by Albert N. Link, John T. Scott ...
    In Public Goods, Public Gains, Link and Scott discuss the systematic application of alternative evaluation methods to estimate the social benefits of publicly financed research and development (R&D). The authors argue that economic theory should be the guiding criterion for any method of program evaluation because it focuses attention on the value and the opportunity costs of the program. The ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • The Routledge Guidebook to Machiavelli's The Prince

    by John T. Scott ...
    Series series The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
    Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince is one of the most influential works in the history of political thought and the adjective Machiavellian is well-known and perhaps even over-used. So why does the meaning of the text continue to be debated to the present day? And how does a contemporary reader get to grips with a book full of references to the politics of the early 16th Century?The Routledge ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    by Paul Vinogradoff ...
    Within the whole range of history there is no more momentous and puzzling problem than that connected with the fate of Roman Law after the downfall of the Roman State. How is it that a system shaped to meet certain historical conditions not only survived those conditions, hut has retained its vitality even to the present day, when political and social surroundings are entirely altered? Why is it ... Read more

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  • Tyranny

    A New Interpretation

    by Waller R. Newell ...
    This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers' stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern ... Read more

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  • The Primacy of the Political

    A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions

    by Dick Howard ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
    The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts this dilemma into fresh perspective, proving our contemporary political problems are not as unique ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Idea of Progress

    An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth

    by J. B. Bury ...
    "We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation." Contents: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy Utility the End of Knowledge: ... Read more

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  • The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions

    Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

    Edited by Joseph de Maistre ...
    Joseph de Maistre had no doubt that the root causes of the French Revolution were intellectual and ideological. The degeneration of its first immense hopes into the Reign of Terror was not the result of a ruthless competition for power or of prospects of war. He echoed Voltaire's boast that "books did it all." The philosophers of the Enlightenment were the architects of the new regimes; and the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD