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  • Enlightened War

    German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz

    by Elisabeth Krimmer, Professor Patricia Anne Simpson, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Waltraud Maierhofer, Wolf Kittler, Arndt Niebisch, David Colclasure, Felix Saure0, Galili Shahar1, Inge Stephan2, Johannes Birgfeld3 ...
    Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged European warfare from the Seven Years' War to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern

    by Sara Eigen Figal ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core a deceptively simple question, one too often taken for granted: what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute? Answering ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • On Violence

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism offers an "incisive, deeply probing" essay on violence and political power ( The Nation).Addressing the escalation of global warfare witnessed throughout the 1960s, Hannah Arendt points out that the glorification of violence is not restricted to a small minority of militants and extremists. The public revulsion for violence that ... Read more

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  • Building a National Literature

    The Case of Germany, 1830–1870

    by Peter Uwe Hohendahl ...
    Translated by Renate Baron Franciscono ...
    Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a ... Read more

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  • Politics without Vision

    Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

    by Tracy B. Strong ...
    "Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."— Perspectives on PoliticsFrom Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and Real Politics

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1

    Rules and Order

    by Friedrich A. Hayek ...
    Series Book 1 - Law, Legislation and Liberty
    From a Nobel Laureate economist, "after more than half a century, Rules and Order remains an essential book for anybody interested in politics or law" ( EconLib).F. A. Hayek made many valuable contributions to the field of economics as well as to the disciplines of philosophy and politics. This volume represents the first section of Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between ... Read more

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  • Futures Past

    On the Semantics of Historical Time

    by Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Translated by Keith Tribe ...
    Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Theory of Society, Volume 2

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Kant and Cosmopolitanism

    The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship

    by Pauline Kleingeld ...
    This is the first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, highlighting its moral, political, legal, economic, cultural and psychological aspects. Contrasting Kant's views with those of his German contemporaries and relating them to current debates, Pauline Kleingeld sheds new light on texts that have been hitherto neglected or underestimated. In clear and carefully argued discussions, she ... Read more

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  • Dignity

    Its History and Meaning

    by Michael Rosen ...
    Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Michael Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal.Drawing on law, politics, religion, and culture, as well as philosophy, Rosen shows how modern conceptions of ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany

    the youth movement, the gay movement, and male bonding before Hitler's rise

    by Hubert Kennedy ...
    This is a landmark publication featuring English translations of selections from the early gay German journal, Der Eigene. This collection, previously scattered and difficult to read in the original German, allows readers direct access to primary source material on the early gay movement. Neglected for years, these articles provide insight into the early gay movement, particularly in its relation ... Read more

    $65.99 USD