International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought: International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
Thomas Hobbes
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriella Slomp
April 07, 2016
The aim of this collection is twofold: on the one hand, it brings together the most significant and influential articles on Hobbes that have been published in the twentieth century; on the other hand, it aims at capturing the trend of fragmentation of Hobbes studies offering a taste of early epic ...
Michel Foucault
1st Edition
Edited
By David Owen
March 12, 2014
Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy and the social sciences. The essays and articles selected for this volume are written by many of the most important of Foucault’s interpreters and ...
David Hume
1st Edition
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By Knud Haakonssen, Richard Whatmore
March 20, 2013
This volume on Hume's politics brings together essays that have been formative of the scholarly and more general debate about Hume's political thought. Unlike many theorists who express their thought in terms of system, Hume uses the incidental genre of the essay as the vehicle for his writing and ...
Jürgen Habermas, Volumes I and II
1st Edition
By Camil Ungureanu, Klaus Günther
August 28, 2011
Jürgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals of our time. This collection focuses on the theory of law which can be distilled from his vast compendium of work. At the same time the collection places this theory in the context of Habermas' overall contribution to the ...
Émile Durkheim: Justice, Morality and Politics
1st Edition
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By Roger Cotterrell
June 28, 2010
This volume focuses on three closely-connected aspects of Émile Durkheim's work: his sociology of justice, his sociology of morality and his political sociology. These areas of his thought are the most relevant and practical today in considering fundamental problems of contemporary societies and ...
G.W.F. Hegel
1st Edition
Edited
By Dudley Knowles
October 28, 2009
Hegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy. He outlines a powerful account of freedom as both a personal and social achievement, discussing theories of personal rights, private property and punishment. He articulates a social analysis of ...
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
1st Edition
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By David Carrithers
July 28, 2009
The French philosophe Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was a political and social thinker of enormous depth, range, originality, and influence. The essays by eminent scholars reprinted in this volume explore significant aspects of his contributions to political, ...
Edmund Burke
1st Edition
Edited
By Iain Hampsher-Monk
June 28, 2009
Edmund Burke’s iconic stance against the French Revolution and its supposed Enlightenment inspiration, has ensured his central role in debates about the nature of modernity and freedom. It has now been rendered even more complex by post-modern radicalism’s repudiation of the Enlightenment as ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
1st Edition
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By Tracy B. Strong
March 28, 2009
From his first readers to the present, Friedrich Nietzsche has found supporters and detractors on every point of the political spectrum. In the introduction to this volume, Tracy Strong analyzes the reasons for this diversity of reception. They are to be found, not only in modern social and ...
Vilfredo Pareto
1st Edition
By Joseph V. Femia
February 28, 2009
This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines. The volume underlines the enduring and contemporary relevance of Pareto's ideas on a bewildering ...
Immanuel Kant
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur Ripstein
July 28, 2008
Kant casts a long shadow over contemporary debates in political philosophy. The Kantian roots of ideas of dignity, autonomy, equality and freedom under law are widely acknowledged. Kant’s own developments of those ideas in his explicitly political writings are taken up less frequently. The aim of ...
John Rawls
1st Edition
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By David A. Reidy
May 28, 2008
Taken together, the articles collected in this volume offer readers a reliable, illuminating, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the political philosophy of John Rawls and the most significant of the scholarly debates it has generated and is likely to generate in coming years. ...