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Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism by Leo Strauss
Booksplease Price: £31.37Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars devoted to... -
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism by Leo Strauss 9780226566825
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £38.87Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars devoted to... -
The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon by John Tresch 9780226214801
Booksplease Price: £26.98In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the... -
Elie Halevy: Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny by K. Steven Vincent 9780812252033
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44An 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... -
The Little Book of Sociology: A Pocket Guide to the Study of Society Rasha Barrage 9781800077188
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers covered Sociology has almost... -
Politics and History Ron Christenson 9780878559442
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary... -
An Analysis of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty Ashleigh Campi 9781912127207
Booksplease Price: £6.50In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that individual fulfilment is the surest... -
On Liberty by Ashleigh Campi 9781912303380
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74In his wonderfully clear and cogent essay On Liberty, Mill contends that individuals should be as free as possible from interference by government. Proposing that individual fulfilment is the surest... -
A Scientist's Voice in American Culture: Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method by Albert E. Moyer 9780520076891
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95In late nineteenth-century America, Simon Newcomb was the nation's most celebrated scientist and - irascibly, doggedly, tirelessly - he made the most of it. Officially a mathematical astronomer... -
Introduction to the Social Sciences by Maurice Duverger 9781138787445
Booksplease Price: £108.42Professor Duverger at last provides the student with an overall view of the methodology of the social sciences. He briefly traces the origin of the notion of a social science, showing how it emerged... -
Introduction to the Social Sciences (RLE Social Theory) Maurice Duverger 9781138992641
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Professor Duverger at last provides the student with an overall view of the methodology of the social sciences. He briefly traces the origin of the notion of a social science, showing how it emerged... -
Marketing Democracy: Public Opinion and Media Formation in Democratic Societies by Catherine Paradeise
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This book examines mass marketing techniques in a political rather than economic context. The authors' thesis remains persuasive: democratic politics, precisely because it requires mass support for... -
Moralising Space: The Utopian Urbanism of the British Positivists, 1855-1920 by Matthew Wilson
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, a... -
Prophets of Progress: Saint Simon, Comte & Spencer: Pioneers of Sociology by John T. Pullinger 9781903499849
Booksplease Price: £18.30The focus of this book is on three nineteenth century theorists, Henri Saint Simon, August Comte and Herbert Spencer. It builds a clear understanding of important concepts of this era, and provides a... -
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk 9780895261717
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £17.49"It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." - WILLIAM F BUCKLEY "A profound critique of contemporary mass society,... -
The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 2: Esprit Revolutionnaire by Ira O. Wade 9780691616476
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £57.50The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific... -
John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control by Joseph Hamburger 9780691089881
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63John Stuart Mill is one of the hallowed figures of the liberal tradition, revered for his defense of liberal principles and expansive personal liberty. By examining Mill's arguments in On Liberty in... -
I Always Knew: A Memoir by Barbara Chase-Riboud 9780691234274
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved motherBarbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After... -
The Legacy of Positivism by Michael Singer 9781349544202
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book gives a unique historical and interpretive analysis of a widely pervasive mode of thought that it describes as the legacy of positivism. Viewing Auguste Comte as a pivotal figure, it charts... -
Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution by Albert Boime
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret"--the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois,... -
The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico by Charles A. Hale 9780691604220
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43A leading intellectual historian of Latin America here examines the changing political ideas of the Mexican intellectual and quasi-governmental elite during the period of ideological consensus from... -
The Legacy of Positivism by Michael Singer 9781403994028
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book gives a unique historical and interpretive analysis of a widely pervasive mode of thought that it describes as the legacy of positivism. Viewing Auguste Comte as a pivotal figure, it charts... -
Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive by David W. Levy 9780691612690
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930), one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century. David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's... -
Comte after Positivism by Robert C. Scharff
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45This 1996 book provides a detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the... -
Comte after Positivism by Robert C. Scharff 9780521474887
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £77.29This 1996 book provides a detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the... -
The Ethics of Altruism by Jonathan Seglow
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63'The chief problem of human life', wrote Auguste Comte, 'is the subordination of egoism to altruism.' This collection examines the nature and value of altruism as a moral virtue, restoring it to its... -
Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud by J. Samuel Preus 9780788503214
Booksplease Price: £72.20J. Samuel Preus traces the development and articulation of a modern "naturalistic" approach to the study of religion by examining ideas about the origin of religion in the works of nine western... -
Testament for Social Science: An Essay in the Application of Scientific Method to Human Problems by Barbara Wootton 9781138988705
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The contrast between man's amazing ability to manipulate his world and his pitiful incompetence in managing his own affairs is now as commonplace as it is tragic. It is by rigorous devotion to... -
Testament for Social Science: An Essay in the Application of Scientific Method to Human Problems by Barbara Wootton
Booksplease Price: £108.12The contrast between man's amazing ability to manipulate his world and his pitiful incompetence in managing his own affairs is now as commonplace as it is tragic. It is by rigorous devotion to... -
Human Rights on Trial: A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights by Justine Lacroix 9781108438155
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76The first systematic analysis of the arguments made against human rights from the French Revolution to the present day. Through the writings of Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Louis de... -
Madame de Stael: Her Friends, and her Influence in Politics and Literature by Charlotte Blennerhassett 9781108059855
Booksplease Price: £43.64An accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843-1917) originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the... -
The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity by Ludwig Edelstein
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1967. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass... -
Balzac, Literary Sociologist by Allan H. Pasco 9783319818689
Booksplease Price: £24.63Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scenes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La... -
Thomas Hardy and History by Fred Reid 9783319853390
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and... -
Madame de Stael: Her Friends, and her Influence in Politics and Literature by Charlotte Blennerhassett 9781108059879
Booksplease Price: £45.60An accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843-1917) originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the... -
Madame de Stael: Her Friends, and her Influence in Politics and Literature by Charlotte Blennerhassett 9781108059862
Booksplease Price: £45.60An accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843-1917) originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the... -
A History of Political Economy by John K. Ingram 9781108053020
Booksplease Price: £29.56Living most of his life in Dublin, John Kells Ingram (1823-1907) published papers on Shakespeare, geometry, differential calculus, and Mexican antiques, held professorial chairs in English Literature... -
Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire by Matthew Wilson 9783030834401
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. This polemicist was the first thinker to gain instant infamy for publishing cogent critiques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As the... -
Politics in the Human Interest: Applying Sociology in the Real World by William Du Bois 9780739117712
Booksplease Price: £44.76Politics in the Human Interest presents the striking proposition that by paying attention to what's been learned about human behavior, we can develop a political agenda that is in the human interest... -
Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890-1914 by Michael Sutton 9780521893404
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41At the time of the Dreyfus Affair and the start of the Action Francaise, Charles Maurras pressed forward the idea, borrowed from Auguste Comte, of an alliance between Positivists and Catholics. The...