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The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Whatmore
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past... -
Republicanism: Volume 1: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe by Martin van Gelderen 9780521672351
Booksplease Price: $57.56These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly... -
Republicanism: Volume 1: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe by Martin van Gelderen 9780521802031
Booksplease Price: $150.16These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly... -
British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800 by David Armitage 9780521870412
Booksplease Price: $82.95The history of British political thought has been one of the most fertile fields of Anglo-American historical writing in the last half-century. David Armitage brings together an interdisciplinary and... -
History after Liberty: Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans by Thomas Strunk 9780472130207
Booksplease Price: $85.19Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The emperors in Tacitus' works are almost universally tyrants surrounded by flatterers and informants, and the... -
History in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Richard Bourke 9781009231046
Booksplease Price: $100.72This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international... -
British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800 by David Armitage 9780521130851
Booksplease Price: $45.76The history of British political thought has been one of the most fertile fields of Anglo-American historical writing in the last half-century. David Armitage brings together an interdisciplinary and... -
Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993 by John Dunn 9780198279341
Booksplease Price: $83.66Two and a half thousand years ago the small Greek city state of Athens invented a new form of political regime. Today the name of that form of regime is the only credible basis on which to claim... -
Between Utopia and Realism: The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar by Samantha Ashenden 9781512826098
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of prominent political theorists and published prolifically... -
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Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture by Mark S. Micale 9780804731164 [USED COPY]
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $10.32During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched... -
The Liberty Reader by David Miller
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $30.04The quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries over the centuries. Even today, Western governments... -
Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict by David Johnston
Booksplease Price: $62.81More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. While scholars... -
Republicanism in the Modern World by John Maynor 9780745628073
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $68.76In response to the dominance of liberalism, some theorists have recently embraced the republican model as an attractive alternative. The overriding appeal of these moves seems to be the robust... -
Democracy in the Post-Truth Era: Restoring Faith in Expertise by Janusz Grygienc
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $100.57Criticises the carefree optimism of liberal theory towards the problem of expert knowledge Argues that post-truth is here to stay, as democracy will never be based on rational argument alone ... -
History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck by Niklas Olsen 9780857452955
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $110.24This is the first intellectual biography, in any language, on post-war Germany's greatest theorist of history, Reinhart Koselleck. It not only illuminates Koselleck's role in founding conceptual... -
Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum by Nicholas D. Jackson 9780521181440
Booksplease Price: $58.45This book was the first full account of one of the most famous quarrels of the seventeenth century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John... -
Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed by Vickie B. Sullivan, IV 9781501747847
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan... -
The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom Andrea Lorenzo Capussela 9781509564828
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.36We cling to a distorted idea of freedom. To be free, we commonly think, means to be unconstrained. This widespread belief makes our societies less fair, as it fails to confront that freedom to act... -
Power, Impartiality and Justice by Peter G. Woolcock 9781138327979
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $45.01First published in 1998, this volume argues that two conditions need to be met for any agreement between people with conflicting desires to count as an unforced one, namely, that the parties argue as... -
What is Intellectual History? Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) 9780745644936
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.68What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and... -
What is Intellectual History? by Richard Whatmore 9780745644929
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.70What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and... -
Milton and the Terms of Liberty by Graham Parry
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.46Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime. In his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his career... -
Approaches to Political Thought by William L. Richter 9780742564336
Booksplease Price: $85.23Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead... -
Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: A Quarrel of the Civil Wars and Interregnum by Nicholas D. Jackson 9780521870061
Booksplease Price: $138.64This book was the first full account of one of the most famous quarrels of the seventeenth century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John... -
Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right by Alan Cromartie 9780199236237
Booksplease Price: $74.36This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by... -
Schools of Thought: Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science by Joan Wallach Scott 9780691088426
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $62.40Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This... -
Between Utopia and Realism: The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar by Samantha Ashenden
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of prominent political theorists and published prolifically... -
History in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Richard Bourke 9781009231008
Booksplease Price: $34.71This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international... -
Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage 860-1600 by David D'Avray 9781107062535
Booksplease Price: $150.16This analysis of royal marriage cases across seven centuries explains how and how far popes controlled royal entry into and exits from their marriages. In the period between c.860 and 1600, the... -
A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among... -
Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage 860-1600 by David D'Avray 9781107660625
Booksplease Price: $53.37This analysis of royal marriage cases across seven centuries explains how and how far popes controlled royal entry into and exits from their marriages. In the period between c.860 and 1600, the... -
Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes by Ted H. Miller 9780271048925
Booksplease Price: $46.80According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from... -
The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930 by Dr. Martin A. Ruehl
Booksplease Price: $45.76Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic... -
R. G. Collingwood: An Autobiography and other writings: with essays on Collingwood's life and work by David Boucher 9780198801207
Booksplease Price: $59.21This volume presents a many-faceted view of the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood. At its centre is his Autobiography, published in 1939, which has the status of a cult classic for its compelling... -
The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes by Jeffrey R. Collins 9780199268474
Booksplease Price: $120.09The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent,... -
Hobbes's Political Philosophy: Interpretation and Interpretations by Professor Emeritus A P Martinich
RRP: $117.39Booksplease Price: $113.03Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher, argued that human beings needed government in order to save their lives from being "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." They form... -
Machiavelli and Epicureanism: An Investigation into the Origins of Early Modern Political Thought by Robert J. Roecklein 9780739197752
Booksplease Price: $66.69This book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy. Towards this end, the full philosophical history and origins of atomist... -
Machiavelli and Epicureanism: An Investigation into the Origins of Early Modern Political Thought by Robert J. Roecklein 9780739177105
Booksplease Price: $144.65This book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy. Towards this end, the full philosophical history and origins of atomist... -
For Public Service: State, Office and Ethics by Paul Du Gay
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09This book develops a particular stance on the subject of public service. It does so in large part by indicating how early modern political concepts and theories of state, sovereignty, government,... -
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $27.03Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought."-Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary...