Author : Patrick Riley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521576154
Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Author : Patrick Riley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825623
Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Author : David Lay Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108839304
What is freedom? What is equality? And what is sovereignty? A foundational text of modern political philosophy, Rousseau's Social Contract has generated much debate and exerted extraordinary influence not only on political thought, but also modern political history, by way of the French Revolution and other political events, ideals, and practices. The Social Contract is regularly studied in undergraduate courses of philosophy, political thought, and modern intellectual history, as well as being the subject of graduate seminars in numerous disciplines. The book inspires an ongoing flow of scholarly articles and monographs. Few texts have offered more influential and important answers to research questions than Rousseau's Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provides new ways to navigate this masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions.
Author : Roger F. Gibson, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825801
W. V. Quine (1908–2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a bleak view of the nature of the language with which we ascribe thoughts and beliefs to ourselves and others. Quine is also famous for the view that epistemology should be naturalized, that is conducted in a scientific spirit with the object of investigating the relationship between the inputs of experience and the outputs of belief. The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of Quine's philosophy: the underdetermination of physical theory, analycity, naturalism, propositional attitudes, behaviorism, reference and ontology, positivism, holism and logic.
Author : Daniel C. Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1107001161
This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.
Author : Lloyd Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110848834X
A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.
Author : Cheryl B. Welch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139827359
The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville contains a set of critical interpretive essays by internationally renowned scholars on the work of Alexis de Tocqueville. The essays cover Tocqueville's major themes (liberty, equality, democracy, despotism, civil society, religion) and texts (Democracy in America, Recollections, Old Regime and the Revolution, other important reports, speeches and letters). The authors analyze both Tocqueville's contributions as a theorist of modern democracy and his craft as a writer. Collections of secondary work on Tocqueville have tended to fall into camps, either bringing together only scholars from one point of view or discipline, or treating only one major text. This Companion transcends national, ideological, disciplinary, and textual boundaries to bring together the best in recent Tocqueville scholarship. The essays not only introduce Tocqueville's major themes and texts, but also put forward provocative arguments that advance the field of Tocqueville studies.
Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827324
Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age.
Author : Tom Sorell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521422444
The most convenient, accessible guide to Hobbes available.
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841674
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
