History of Ideas, Intellectual History
"Rethinking Popular Culture"Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies
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Rethinking Popular Culture presents some of the most important current scholarship analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and exciting new methods of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries and offer fresh insight into popular culture. With ill.. Paperback, 512 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 692g.
Author: (Mukerji, Chandra, ed.)
ISBN: 0520068939
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 1991 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought"
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A fresh look at the impact of Quentin Skinner's The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Paperback, 308 pages. Size: 228 x 152 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Brett, Annabel S., ed.)
ISBN: 0521615038
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences"
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"Canto" series; The essays discuss major figures such as Gadamer, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Althusser and Levi-Strauss, giving valuably lucid introductory studies of some difficult but unquestionably major thinkers of our time. With bibliography, index. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 216 x 140 mm. Weight: 260g.
Author: (Skinner, Quentin, ed.)
ISBN: 0521398339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1990 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right"
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"Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes Series" series; A critical edition of two great works by Thomas Hobbes. The Dialogue of the Common Laws is his classic critique of common law, essential reading for anyone interested in English political thought or legal theory. It is accompanied by Hobbes>'s last word on politics, a fragment in which he mounts a robust defence of hereditary right. With 5 halftones. Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 433g.
Author: (Cromartie, Alan, ed.)
ISBN: 0199236232
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Uncommon Ground"Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
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Argues that attempting to exclude humans from their place in nature is no solution to our environmental problems. Instead, environmental advocates should help us live in a sustainable relationship with nature. This is a reassessment of the environmental agenda by historians, scientists and critics. With photographs. New ed. Paperback, 560 pages. Size: 234 x 155 mm. Weight: 690g.
Author: (Cronon, William, ed.)
ISBN: 0393315118
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Ways of Knowing"New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning
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"Methodology & History in Anthropology" series; Questions about how humans come to know themselves and their worlds have always been at the heart of anthropology, and are necessarily part of a broader intellectual history. This book brings together anthropologists to discuss how they come to know what they know about the societies they study. With bibliog., index. Hardback, 256 pages. Weight: 624g.
Author: (Harris, Mark, ed.)
ISBN: 1845453646
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The Global Age"State and Society Beyond Modernity
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This study argues that a history of the present needs an explicit epochal theory to understand the transition to the global age. When globality displaces modernity there is a general decentring of state, government, economy, culture and community. With 0. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 386g.
Author: Albrow, Martin
ISBN: 0745611893
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The New Orientalists"Postmodern Representations of Islam From Foucault to Baudrillard
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Exposes and examines the west's Orientalism and its construction of an Arab or Islamic 'Other'. This work highlights the difficulty of ever speaking truly about the 'Other'. It also examines the work of Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 216 x 134 mm. Weight: 307g.
Author: Almond, Ian
ISBN: 1845113985
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Dust"A History of the Small and the Invisible
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This text is a meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined. It examines Western civilization, from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to modern nanotechnology and viral diseases. With 30 line illustrations, 1 table. New ed. Paperback, 262 pages. Size: 203 x 152 mm. Weight: 320g.
Author: Amato, Joseph Anthony
ISBN: 0520231953
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2001 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"Plato"A Very Short Introduction
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"Very Short Introductions" series; Focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. This work discusses his style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. With 12 halftones and numerous text boxes. Paperback, 120 pages. Size: 174 x 111 mm. Weight: 102g.
Author: Annas, Julia
ISBN: 019280216X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
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"Aquinas"Political Writings
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"Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought" series; A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). With glossary, chronology, bibliography, notes, index. Paperback, 360 pages. Size: 217 x 139 mm. Weight: 515g.
Author: Aquinas, Saint Thomas (Dyson, R.W., ed.)
ISBN: 0521375959
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
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"Aristotle: the Politics and the Constitution of Athens"
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"Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought" series; An extended and revised edition of one of the best-selling Cambridge Texts. With index, bibliographical notes. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 328 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 467g.
Author: Aristotle (Everson, Stephen, ed.)
ISBN: 0521484006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
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"The Offbeat Radicals"
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A history of English dissent since the French Revolution. Drawing on the lives and works of a collection of scholars, philosophers and literary figures, this work shows how the heirs of English radical thought, some visionary and all ahead of their time, sowed the seeds for British reform, in opposition to the disappointment of the Revolution. With 16pp plate section. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 250 x 165 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Ashe, Geoffrey
ISBN: 0413774600
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
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"Augustine: the City of God Against the Pagans"
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"Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought" series; The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation. Paperback, 1278 pages. Size: 216 x 140 mm. Weight: 1200g.
Author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo (Dyson, Robert, ed.)
ISBN: 0521468434
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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"The Portable Hannah Arendt"
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"Penquin Classics" series; Paperback, 640 pages. Size: 197 x 127 mm. Weight: 431g.
Author: Baehr, Peter
ISBN: 0142437565
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) History of Ideas, Intellectual History
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