"Activist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad was admired by and consulted by activists and policymakers. He inspired new ways of thinking about militant Islam, the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the Cold War. This intellectual biography relates Ahmad's life to the politica…
[Badiou's theory] enacts a return to full-blown philosophy that strikes as a thunder into the morass of postmodernist sophisms and platitudes. ... [Badiou] aims at the very heart of politically correct 'radical' intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life!' …
Alain Badiou is emerging as one of the most radical and influential philosophers of our time. This work provides an overview of Badiou's work and the intellectual and political context from which it emerges.
The Wives of Western Philosophy examines the lives and experiences of the wives and women associated with nine distinct political thinkers-from Socrates to Marx-in order to explore the gendered patterns of intellectual labor that permeate the foundations of western political tho…
Married to the canon : writing the history of western philosophy / Jennifer Forestal & Menaka Philips -- Xanthippe : shrew or muse / Arlene Saxonhouse -- Self-sacrifice as wifely virtue in Aristotle's political theory / Sara Brill -- Authoring Machiavelli : Barbera Salutati la M…
"The Wives of Western Philosophy examines the lives and experiences of the wives and women associated with nine distinct political thinkers-from Socrates to Marx-in order to explore the gendered patterns of intellectual labor that permeate the foundations of western political th…
"The Wives of Western Philosophy examines the lives and experiences of the wives and women associated with nine distinct political thinkers-from Socrates to Marx-in order to explore the gendered patterns of intellectual labor that permeate the foundations of western political th…
"Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course o…
