Springer, 2021. — 284 p. The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu. It presents early-nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism as a phenomenon connected to a specific generation of young Prussians. The book introduces the ecclesial-political ‘party of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung’ (EKZ), a religious party...
Routledge, 2018. — 911 p. First published in 1928, this presentation of the main phases and features of political thought in the sixteenth century was based on an exhaustive study of contemporary writings in Latin, English, French, German, and Italian. The book is divided into four parts, with the first part dealing with the new thought of Protestantism. The rest describes in...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN-10: 1107692504; ISBN-13: 978-1107692503. This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally treated Shakespeare as a participant in the political thought of his time, unlike his...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 296 p. — (Ideas in Context, No 35) — ISBN-10: 0521551781; ISBN-13: 978-0521551786. This volume draws on the expertise of both historians and literary critics to examine the classical sources of Milton's republicanism, the genesis of that republicanism in the 1640s, its disappointment in the 1650s, and its presence in his work...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — xi + 338 p. The 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 international team of authors to consider the impact of this scholarship on the study of early modern British history, English...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 311 p. — ISBN-10: 0521001692; ISBN-13: 978-0521001694. Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 332 p. — (Ideas in Context, No 18) — ISBN-10: 0521435897; ISBN-13: 978-0521435895. This highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world's foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli held by other...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 362 p. — ISBN10: 1108436544; ISBN13: 978-1108436540 From Plato to Max Weber, the attempt to understand political judgment took the form of a struggle to define the relationship between politics and morals. This book by leading international scholars in the fields of history, philosophy, and politics restores the subject to a...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2009, -248 p. This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women’s political thought in Europe, from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women’s ideas about topics such as the basis of political authority, the best form of political organisation, justifications of obedience and resistance, and...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. - 714 p. The companion volume to the highly successful Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, this book presents a comprehensive account of the development of European political thinking through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the "scientific revolution" and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. Recent decades have...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 192 p. This book brings together 11 pairs of opposing speeches on foreign policy written by Florentine statesman and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483 – 1540), freshly translated with new commentary. Collectively, they constitute a remarkable collection of debates on war, peace, alliance, and more. Incisive and elegant, the debates...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 278 p. In the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated as the development of an increasingly centralizing and expansive national sovereignty. Recent work in political and social history, however, has shown that the state — at court, in the provinces, and the parishes —...
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.,1891. — 320 p. Historical Basis Of The German Socialist Movement Early Socialistic And Communistic Theories Karl Rodbertus And The Wages Principle Karl Marx And Surplus-Value Ferdinand Lassalle Organisation Of The Working Classes The Productive Association Failure Of Lassalle's Agitation Lassalle's Death Characteristics Of Lassalle, The Man And...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 308 p. — ISBN-10: 0521271398; ISBN-13: 978-0521271394. This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought. John Dunn restores Locke's ideas to their exact context, and so stresses the historical question of what Locke in the Two Treatises of Government was intending to claim. By...
Routledge, 2017. — 264 p. As early as 1892, Moncure Conway, the author of the first scholarly Paine biography, noted that whilst Paine’s life up to 1809 was certainly fascinating, his subsequent life – that is, his afterlife – was even more thrilling. Vilified by Theodore Roosevelt as a "filthy little atheist," yet employed by Ronald Reagan in his campaign to make America...
University of Wales Press, 2004. — 148 p. This work attempts to guide the reader through a maze of interpretations of Machiavelli's political opinions. The author demonstrates that Machiavelli was an anti-metaphysical empiricist who sought to free political thought from all theological preconceptions or residues by challenging the assumption that there exists some unifying...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 328 p. ISBN: 0521842182. The aim of this highly original book is twofold: to explain the rec- onciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke and to explore the relevance of that reconciliation for politics in our own time. Confronted with deep social divisions over ultimate beliefs, Locke sought to unite society in a single...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 216 p. Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince" is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual of instruction on certain...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 480 p. The period from the fifteenth century to the late eighteenth century was one of critical importance to British constitutionalism. Although the seeds were sown in earlier eras, it was at this point that the constitution was transformed to a system of representative parliamentary government. Changes at the practical level of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 936 p. This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of western political thought during the European enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established as the principal reference...
London: Routledge, 2009. — 496 p. — (International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought) — ISBN-10 0754624994; ISBN-13 978-0754624998. 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...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 576 p. A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance - from Petrarch to Machiavelli - reveals the all-important role of character in shaping society, both in citizens and in their leaders. Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society....
Routledge, 2018. — 188 p. Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought provides a comparative analysis of the Scottish and French Enlightenments. Studies of the two Enlightenments have previously focused on the transnational, their story one of continuity between Scottish intellectuals and French philosophes and of a mutual commitment to combat fanaticism...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 300 p. — (Ideas in Context) — ISBN-10: 0521619424; ISBN-13: 978-0521619424. The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the Enlightenment. This book approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — xiv, 276 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-14200-5. Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality — these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 1108 p. This major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes firmly established as the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. - 214 p. Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance Florence-republican and princely-by focusing on five generations of the Valori family, each of which played a dynamic role in the city's political and cultural life. The Valori were early and influential supporters of the Medici family, but were also...
Princeton University Press, 1994. — 332 p. Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 248 p. Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686-1743) was a Scottish Jacobite émigré who spent most of his adult life in France. His political works predominantly relied on a mixture of British and French doctrines to stimulate a Jacobite restoration to the British throne. Ambitious and controversial, Ramsay believed that key reforms and a growing empire...
New Jersey, Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2003. — 376 p. In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against Empire is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 275 p. English republicanism has long been a major theme in the history of political thought, but the years of the English free state are often overlooked. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era, The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649 – 1653 offers a provocative...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN-10: 0521574986; ISBN-13: 978-0521574983. There is at present no overall history of English and British political thought and literature in the early modern period, although new approaches to the writing of its history have taken shape in the past forty to fifty years; and during that time British political history...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 332 p. — (Ideas in Context). — ISBN: 0-521-27660-8 A collection of essays from one of the leading figures in the study of the history of political thought. Includes essays concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the 18th century, several of which have been previously published. This book collects...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. — 377 p. Introduction: A Life Apart from Circumstantial Things Self-Made Men, 1841-1862 An Equal Chance in the Race of Life, 1861-1870 The Land of Birds and Flowers, 1870-1879 Restless Skepticism, 1880-1883 A True National Philosophy, 1883-1887 The Great Social Problem, 1886-1893 Spencer-Smashing at Washington, 1894-1900 Gulliver...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 390 p. The significance of Machiavelli’s political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. In this volume, a distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassesses the evidence, examining the character of Machiavelli’s own republicanism and charting his influence on Marchamont...
Clarendon Press, 1992. — 352 p. This book explores the connection between Bentham and Byron forged by the Greek struggle for independence. It focuses on the activities of the London Greek Committee, supposedly founded by disciples of Jeremy Bentham, which mounted the expedition on which Lord Byron ultimately met his death in Greece. Professor Rosen's penetrating study provides...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 444 p. — ISBN-10: 9781107569362; ISBN-13: 978-1107569362. This collection aims to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 142 p. This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and vindicate the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads to a powerful defense of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 496 p. — ISBN-10: 0521596459; ISBN-13: 978-0521596459. This major work from Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscripts as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view of Hobbes' intellectual development and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 330 p. — ISBN: 0-521-29337-5. A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 414 p. — ISBN: 0-521-29435-5. A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 225 p. — ISBN: 0-521-58926-6. The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a...
Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2002. — 478 p. — ISBN: 0-521-58925-8. The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of the Italian renaissance, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. All of Professor...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 404 p. — ISBN: 0-521-89060-8. The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of writings spanning the past four...
Greenwood Press, 1992. — 200 p. This work provides the first full-scale examination of the eighteenth-century periodical Political Controversy and of the essay-sheets reprinted therein, Briton, Auditor, North Briton, and Monitor. These essay sheets were published in England at the end of the Seven Years' War with France, in support of and in opposition to Lord Bute's proposed...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 252 p. Machiavelli'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. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes elements of both understandings arrayed in a...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 212 p. — ISBN-10: 0521271401; ISBN-13: 978-0521271400. John Locke's theory of property is perhaps the most distinctive and the most influential aspect of his political theory. In this book James Tully uses a hermeneutical and analytical approach to offer a revolutionary revision of early modern theories of property, focusing...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 212 p. — ISBN-10: 0521271401; ISBN-13: 978-0521271400. John Locke's theory of property is perhaps the most distinctive and the most influential aspect of his political theory. In this book James Tully uses a hermeneutical and analytical approach to offer a revolutionary revision of early modern theories of property, focusing...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 352 p. — (Ideas in Context, No 25) — ISBN-10: 0521436389; ISBN-13: 978-0521436380. An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts brings together Professor Tully's most important and innovative statements on Locke in a systematic treatment of the latter's thought that is at once contextual and critical. Each essay has...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 434 p. — ISBN-10: 052167235X; ISBN-13: 978-0521672351. These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 416 p. — ISBN-10: 0521672341; ISBN-13: 978-0521672344. These volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European...
Routledge, 2016. — x, 178 p. — (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory). — ISBN: 978-0-203-85558-4, 978-0-415-55518-0. More than 200 years after his birth, and 150 years after the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the Western tradition. This book combines an up-to-date assessment of the...
Brill, 2018. — 352 p. Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination , edited by Wyger Velema and Arthur Weststeijn, approaches the early modern republican political imagination from a fresh perspective. While most scholars agree on the importance of the classical world too early modern republican theorists, its role is all too often described in rather abstract and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 0195306376; ISBN13: 978-0195306378. The only book of its kind, The New Inquisitions is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Arthur Versluis unveils the connections between heretic hunting in early and medieval Christianity, and the emergence of totalitarianism in the twentieth...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998. — 264 p. — ISBN-10 0198780893; ISBN-13 978-0198780892. This book presents a critical examination of Machiavelli's thought, combining an accessible, historically informed account of his work with a reassessment of his central ideas and arguments. Viroli challenges the accepted interpretations of Machiavelli's work, insisting that his...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998. — 264 p, — ISBN-10: 0198780893; ISBN-13: 978-0198780892. This book presents a critical examination of Machiavelli's thought, combining an accessible, historically informed account of his work with a reassessment of his central ideas and arguments. Viroli challenges the accepted interpretations of Machiavelli's work, insisting that his...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 276 p. Are we humans all one another’s equals? And if we are, what is this equality based on and what are its implications? In this concise and engaging book, Jeremy Waldron explores these questions in the company of the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke. Waldron believes that Locke provides us with “aswell-worked-out a...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 244 p. Niccolò Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of European political thought - prominent because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of violence in politics; and notorious because he treats violence as virtue rather than as vice. In this original interpretation, Yves Winter...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0230232043; ISBN13: 978-0230232044 — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 512 p. Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the Discourses on Livy to argue that Machiavelli is a passionate advocate of republican politics who saw the need for occasional harsh measures to...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 512 p. Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the evil "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the Discourses on Livy to argue that Machiavelli is a passionate advocate of republican politics who saw the need for occasional harsh measures to maintain...
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