Books in the Ideas in Context series
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Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 to 1920.
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Inspired by the work of intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, this 1993 collection explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain.
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Explores Nietzsche's understanding of modern political culture and his position in the history of modern political thought.
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A 2007 discussion of Thomasius's work in public and church law, providing a revealing comparison with the arguments of John Locke.
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The evolution of republican concepts compared to medieval and early modern traditions of political thought.
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A major new study of Jeremy Bentham's engagement with contemporary French culture, from the Enlightenment through to the post-Revolutionary era.
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Tracing the history of constituent power over five key moments from the French Revolution onwards, Lucia Rubinelli considers the history of the idea in relation to the state and its institutions, and asks why constituent power is so often conflated with sovereignty.
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The history of aesthetic theory - the philosophical analysis of art and beauty - matters to nearly every discipline in the humanities and social sciences. Broad in its geographic scope yet grounded in original archival research, this book offers a strikingly new portrait of aesth...etic theory's inception in the early eighteenth century.
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This comprehensive analysis of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory assesses for the first time the importance of texts from classical antiquity, especially Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, and explores the significance of the Roman tradit...ion for Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law.
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Bringing together intellectual history, international political thought and international law, Schroeder explores the extent to which seventeenth-century discourses and doctrines of international law and the balance of power, and the projects to establish federal structures and i...nstitutions to achieve peace and stability, relied on trust.
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