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“michael sonenscher”

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  • After Kant

    The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought

    by Michael Sonenscher ...
    Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or understand the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Capitalism

    The Story behind the Word

    by Michael Sonenscher ...
    How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sans-Culottes

    An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution

    by Michael Sonenscher ...
    This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrative of its content ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Markets, Morals, Politics

    Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

    by Peter N. Miller, John Robertson, Richard Tuck, Pasquale Pasquino, Keith Tribe, Michael Sonenscher, Gareth Stedman Jones, Raymond Geuss, J. G. A. Pocock, John Dunn ...
    When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Politics in Commercial Society

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

    by Istvan Hont ...
    Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society and from surprisingly similar perspectives.In making his case, Hont begins with ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Politics in Commercial Society

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

    by Istvan Hont ...
    Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society and from surprisingly similar perspectives.In making his case, Hont begins with ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Before the Deluge

    Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution

    by Michael Sonenscher ...
    Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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    Capitalism

    The Story behind the Word

    by Michael Sonenscher ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 21 min

    What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that the idea of capitalism is doing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the ... Read more

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  • The Virtues of Abandon

    An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment

    by Charly Coleman ...
    France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership—of property, of position, even of personhood. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the ... Read more

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  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... Read more

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  • Classical Debates for the 21st Century

    Rethinking Political Thought

    by Thomas Hueglin ...
    Classical Debates for the 21st Century distinctively reconsiders the canon of political thought, in the context of current world events, by presenting debates between the ideas of classical theorists. It is through these debates that Thomas O. Hueglin argues that exclusive state sovereignty, individual citizenship, and majority rule have become questionable categories of political theory and ... Read more

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