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  • A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France

    The Political Thought of Mably

    by Johnson Kent Wright ...
    This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.This book has two related aims. The first is to fill an important gap in historical scholarship. Although Mably, whose career as a historian and political theorist stretched from 1740 to the eve of the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

    A History

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • On Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Read more

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  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rousseau

    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

    $7.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Ideas

    An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French RevolutionHistorians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Enlightenment Volume 1

    by Peter Gay ...
    Series Book 1 - Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more sophisticated and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Barbarian Tides

    The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

    by Walter Goffart ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this "Germanic" ... Read more

    $31.99 USD