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The Taming of Chance
In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous …
In the Shadow of Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke sit together in the canon of political thought but are rarely treated in common historical accounts. This book narrates their intertwined careers …
Enlightenment and Utility
Jeremy Bentham, the founder of classical utilitarianism, was a seminal figure in the history of modern political thought. This lively monograph presents the numerous French …
The Enlightenment's Fable
The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals, connected only by bonds of envy, competition, and exploitation, is a dominant modern concern, but one …
Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871–1885
This first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism …
Virtue, Commerce, and History
Essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of eighteenth-century British political thought.
The Case for The Enlightenment
The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in …
The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
This volume studies the concept of a political ‘language’, of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has been widely influential on …
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought
While it has often been recognised that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it occupied in the development of …
The Young Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx is an innovative and important study of Marx's early writings. These writings provide the fascinating spectacle of a powerful and imaginative intellect …
Montaigne and the Life of Freedom
More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the …
Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
Max Weber is widely regarded as one of the foundational thinkers of the twentieth century. But how did this reclusive German scholar manage to leave such an indelible mark on …