By 1860 the dominant social outlook in Britain had changed from paternalism to a vision of a laissez faire society. This text describes and analyzes these changes, which arose from the rapid growth of industry, towns, population and the middle and working classes.
This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhaps best known for rekindling interest in the great classical German tradition fr…
This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying Chi…
