Author: Frans De Bruyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110708248X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought
Author: Frans De Bruyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110708248X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110708248X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Author: Mark Goldie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521374224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521374224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: John Sitter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
Author: Daniel Brewer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy
Author: Jed W. Atkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108265642
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Cicero is one of the most important and influential thinkers within the history of Western philosophy. For the last thirty years, his reputation as a philosopher has once again been on the rise after close to a century of very low esteem. This Companion introduces readers to 'Cicero the philosopher' and to his philosophical writings. It provides a handy port-of-call for those interested in Cicero's original contributions to a wide variety of topics such as epistemology, the emotions, determinism and responsibility, cosmopolitanism, republicanism, philosophical translation, dialogue, aging, friendship, and more. The international, interdisciplinary team of scholars represented in this volume highlights the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Cicero's writings, and suggests pathways for future scholarship on Cicero's philosophy as we move through the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108265642
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Cicero is one of the most important and influential thinkers within the history of Western philosophy. For the last thirty years, his reputation as a philosopher has once again been on the rise after close to a century of very low esteem. This Companion introduces readers to 'Cicero the philosopher' and to his philosophical writings. It provides a handy port-of-call for those interested in Cicero's original contributions to a wide variety of topics such as epistemology, the emotions, determinism and responsibility, cosmopolitanism, republicanism, philosophical translation, dialogue, aging, friendship, and more. The international, interdisciplinary team of scholars represented in this volume highlights the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Cicero's writings, and suggests pathways for future scholarship on Cicero's philosophy as we move through the twenty-first century.
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli
Author: John M. Najemy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Alexander Broadie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521003230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521003230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics
Author: Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics.
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: John Richetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779241
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779241
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.