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Local Colour: A Travelling Concept by Vladimir Kapor 9783039114153
RRP: $66.18Booksplease Price: $59.57Local colour is an undertheorized notion. Although the expression itself is nowadays used in everyday speech in both French and English, its 'domestication' only further highlights the need for a... -
Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government: Constitutionalism, Small States and the International System by Antonio Trampus 9783030480233
RRP: $103.19Booksplease Price: $97.78This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel's Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from... -
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt 9780691203966
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.46The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a... -
Post-Liberalism: Studies in Political Thought by John Gray
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36John Gray has become one of our liveliest and most influential political philosophers. This current volume is a sequel to his Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy. The earlier book ended on a... -
Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty by Maria Dimova-Cookson
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This book argues that the distinction between positive and negative freedom remains highly pertinent today, despite having fallen out of fashion in the late twentieth century. It proposes a new... -
Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses: Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era by Ludovico Battista 9781800503878
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $82.34In the Modern Age, the encounter and conflict between competing religious identities produced a renewed emphasis on the concept of peace, which was invested with religious, political and ideological... -
The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism by George Armstrong Kelly 9780521030724
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $64.28This book is the last completed work of one of the most distinguished political theorists and intellectual historians of our time. Focusing on the political ideas and activities of leading French... -
Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses: Perspectives from Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Era by Ludovico Battista 9781800503885
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $32.26In the Modern Age, the encounter and conflict between competing religious identities produced a renewed emphasis on the concept of peace, which was invested with religious, political and ideological... -
The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism by George Armstrong Kelly 9780521412278
RRP: $117.38Booksplease Price: $112.66This book is the last completed work of one of the most distinguished political theorists and intellectual historians of our time. Focusing on the political ideas and activities of leading French... -
French Liberalism in the 19th Century: An Anthology Robert Leroux 9781138224957
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $71.31Political and economic liberalism has generally been considered to be of marginal import in France, but at an intellectual level, it is a different story. An exploration of the history of French... -
Science Fiction: Toward a World Literature by George Slusser 9781666905359
Booksplease Price: $133.40In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science... -
Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie Jens Timmermann 9781108834216
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $99.70In his 1797 essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity', Kant argues that when only a confident lie might save a friend, one must, if asked, reply truthfully and thus betray his... -
The Foundations of Industrialism: Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer and Liberal Thought in France by Robert Leroux 9781433134166
RRP: $81.66Booksplease Price: $72.90From its beginnings, the doctrine of industrialism has inspired writers of varying persuasions. Saint-Simon is often closely associated with it, however, he represents only the socialist variant of... -
Thinking with Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt by Helena Rosenblatt 9781107105768
RRP: $125.13Booksplease Price: $119.51Although indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau's actual place within that tradition, and the legacy of his thought, remains hotly disputed... -
The Work of Fire by Maurice Blanchot 9780804724937
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Since the middle of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in... -
The Religion of Humanity – The Illusion of Our Times by Pierre Manent
Booksplease Price: $42.11"Is not modern democracy the finally-found form of the religion of Humanity?" (2007)The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Time is the first anthology in any language of the writings of the... -
The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship by Jeffrey Edward Green 9780199838479
Booksplease Price: $58.09For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this pioneering book, Jeffrey Edward Green makes the case for considering the People as an... -
Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814-1851 by David Todd 9781107036932
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $109.99In the aftermath of the French Revolution, advocates of protection against foreign competition prevailed in a fierce controversy over international trade. This groundbreaking study is the first to... -
Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Booksplease Price: $52.74Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge... -
The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution by Pierre Rosanvallon 9780674024960
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $38.42How does France reconcile the modern movement toward pluralism and decentralization with a strong central governing power? One of the country's most distinguished political historians offers a... -
The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror by Stephen Holmes
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $37.24The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to... -
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena Rosenblatt
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a... -
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Madame de Stael by Maria Fairweather 9781845292270 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $4.79The influence of the salons of Paris on the thought and culture of the eighteenth century would be difficult to overstate. They were both intellectual powerhouses and also assemblies where the latest... -
The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship by Jeffrey Edward Green 9780195372649
Booksplease Price: $125.41For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice. In this pioneering book, Jeffrey Edward Green makes the case for considering the People as an... -
Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer by Patrick Coleman 9780199589340
Booksplease Price: $138.40Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer examines how writers as diverse as Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Challe discuss the social appropriateness of anger and gratitude in regulating... -
Public Philosophy and Patriotism: Essays on the Declaration and Us Dr. Paul Seaton 9781587319433
Booksplease Price: $17.98Paul Seaton's Public Philosophy and Patriotism: The Declaration and Us is a very countercultural book. It advances the provocative thesis that not only is the Declaration worthy of our study... -
Elie Halevy: Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny by K. Steven Vincent 9780812252033
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $92.16An intellectual biography of the renowned and influential observer of the "era of tyrannies" Elie Halevy (1870-1937) was one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third... -
Science Fiction: Toward a World Literature by George Slusser 9781666905373
Booksplease Price: $48.77In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science... -
Montaigne's Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais Biancamaria Fontana 9780691131221
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.08Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure--the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in... -
Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism by Andrew J.S. Jainchill 9780801446696
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $55.34In the wake of the Terror, France's political and intellectual elites set out to refound the Republic and, in so doing, reimagined the nature of the political order. They argued vigorously over... -
Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage Gianna Englert 9780197635315
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $73.92Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we wish or need to have? With recent arguments... -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781554812974
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $19.30This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus.Each text has been newly... -
The Pharmacist by Justin David 9781912620043
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95Twenty-four-year-old Billy is beautiful and sexy. Albert-The Pharmacist-is a compelling but damaged older man, and a veteran of London's late 90s club scene. After a chance meeting in the heart of... -
Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns by Andreas Kalyvas 9780521728287
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $29.57The book examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. The authors consider the... -
Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns by Andreas Kalyvas
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $96.27The book examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. The authors consider the... -
The Making of a Terrorist: Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution by Jeff Horn 9780197675540
Booksplease Price: $23.74Much has been written about the French Revolution and especially its bloody phase known as the Reign of Terror. The actions of the leaders who unleashed the massacres and public executions,... -
The Making of a Terrorist: Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution by Jeff Horn 9780197529928
Booksplease Price: $67.91Much has been written about the French Revolution and especially its bloody phase known as the Reign of Terror. The actions of the leaders who unleashed the massacres and public executions,...