The crisis of theory tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E. P. Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work, from his acclaimed his…
Few studies tracing the history of liberalism have taken into account that its reception in non-Western or westernising countries, in the form of the denial or acceptance of its core values and institutions, is an important aspect of the liberal tradition. This is the first in-d…
Few studies tracing the history of liberalism have taken into account that its reception in non-Western or westernising countries, in the form of the denial or acceptance of its core values and institutions, is an important aspect of the liberal tradition. In Intellectual Origin…
In these vivid portraits of prominent twentieth-century intellectuals, Edward Shils couples the sensitivity of a biographer with the profound knowledge of a highly respected scholar. Ranging as widely across various disciplines as Shils himself did, the essays gathered here shar…
The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economics, the sciences, and art. In Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, eminent historian J. Price goes beyond the standard descriptions of the cultural achi…
In The End of Utopia, Jacoby takes a sobering look at the future of politics. He points to the abandonment of utopian ideals that once sustained dissent and movements of social change.
In The End of Utopia, Jacoby takes a sobering look at the future of politics. He points to the abandonment of utopian ideals that once sustained dissent and movements of social change.
In The End of Utopia, Jacoby takes a sobering look at the future of politics. He points to the abandonment of utopian ideals that once sustained dissent and movements of social change.
