History of ideas books

3638 books were found.

Crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715

Crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715

Author: Paul Hazard ,  Anthony Grafton
ISBN: 9781590176191
Format: Paperback
$24.90 $27.66

Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, and The Crisis of the European Mind is by...  Read More >>

Mill and Paternalism

Mill and Paternalism

Author: Gregory Claeys
ISBN: 9780521761086
Format: Hardback
$124.80 $138.67

Gives prominence for the first time to Mill's abiding concern with Malthusianism and its impact on his arguments...  Read More >>

Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography

Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography

Author: Corrado Vivanti ,  Simon MacMichael
ISBN: 9780691151014
Format: Hardback
$36.72 $40.80

This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the author of The Prince--Florentine...  Read More >>

Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets...

Author: Daniel Stolzenberg
ISBN: 9780226924144
Format: Hardback
$65.69 $72.98

Situating Athanasius Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome, with its scholars, artists, patrons, and censors,...  Read More >>

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

Author: Jonathan Sperber
ISBN: 9780871404671
Format: Hardback
$38.66 $42.95

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Introduction to the World of Kabbalah

Introduction to the World of Kabbalah

Author: Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi
ISBN: 9781909171046
Format: Hardback
$29.70 $33.00

This book is an overview of Kabbalah. It introduces the reader to the history and principles of the Tradition, including...  Read More >>

Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World, 1850-1939

Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British...

Author: Tamson Pietsch
ISBN: 9780719085024
Format: Hardback
$177.03 $196.69

Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization....  Read More >>

Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory

Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory...

Author: Lisa Herzog
ISBN: 9780199674176
Format: Hardback
$87.26 $96.95

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Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain

Author: Jonathan Toms
ISBN: 9781137321565
Format: Hardback
$150.75 $167.50

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Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin

Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin

Author: Peter J. Bowler
ISBN: 9780226068671
Format: Hardback
$39.41 $43.79

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Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)

Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930)...

Author: Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova ,  Rudolf G. Wagner
ISBN: 9783642359156
Format: Paperback
$274.57 $305.08

This set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930) opens a unique window onto...  Read More >>

Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians

Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians...

Author: Thucydides ,  Jeremy Mynott
ISBN: 9780521612586
Format: Paperback
$36.77 $40.86

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Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians

Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians...

Author: Thucydides ,  Jeremy Mynott
ISBN: 9780521847742
Format: Hardback
$111.67 $124.07

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Critical Theory and Political Engagement: From May 1968 to the Arab Spring

Critical Theory and Political Engagement: From May 1968...

Author: Chris Pawling
ISBN: 9780230275652
Format: Hardback
$141.88 $157.65

In this timely study, Pawling argues for a renewal of the 'politics of intellectual life', calling for an engaged...  Read More >>

Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame

Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical...

Author: Cary Wolfe
ISBN: 9780226922409
Format: Hardback
$78.82 $87.58

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No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological...

Author: Mark Mazower
ISBN: 9780691157955
Format: Paperback
$23.58 $26.20

Traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood...  Read More >>

A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)

A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)

Author: Sigmund Freud ,  Anthea Bell
ISBN: 9780199639861
Format: Paperback
$15.70 $17.44

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy...

Author: George Klosko
ISBN: 9780199679539
Format: Paperback
$72.26 $80.28

Fifty distinguished contributors survey the entire history of political philosophy. They consider questions about...  Read More >>

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman...

Author: Jeremy Adelman
ISBN: 9780691155678
Format: Hardback
$52.48 $58.32

Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most...  Read More >>

Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy

Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy

Author: Verity Harte ,  Melissa Lane
ISBN: 9781107020221
Format: Hardback
$144.51 $160.57

Explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire...  Read More >>

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas...

Author: Isaiah Berlin ,  Henry Hardy
ISBN: 9780691156101
Format: Paperback
$32.78 $36.42

The main theme of this collection of essays is the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas...  Read More >>

Encounters Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Across the Abyss

Encounters Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy:...

Author: Andreas Vrahimis
ISBN: 9781137290199
Format: Hardback
$111.67 $124.07

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A Mind and Its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin's Political Thought

A Mind and Its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin's...

Author: Joshua L. Cherniss
ISBN: 9780199673261
Format: Hardback
$144.51 $160.57

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America's Assembly Line

America's Assembly Line

Author: David E. Nye
ISBN: 9780262018715
Format: Hardback
$39.35 $43.72

The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar...  Read More >>

Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority

Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention...

Author: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
ISBN: 9780230320260
Format: Hardback
$118.24 $131.37

Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public...  Read More >>

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