"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intelle…
"This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of empires. It illuminates how ideas did not just reflect but also moulded global order and disorder by informing public po…
This Companion aims to give an up-to-date overview of the historical context and the conceptual framework of Spanish imperial expansion during the early modern period, mostly during the 16th century. It intends to offer a nuanced and balanced account of the complexities of this …
"Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W.E.B. Du Bois's intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate over human rights, how should we reassess the changing place of black culture?" "Gi…
"The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambiti…
"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical current that runs through her life and works that seems almost timeless. And yet Weil was a keen observer of the modern condition, coming of age as…
"In this book, the author uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Alb…
Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader states acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual developments which ch…
"Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader states acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual developments which c…
British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. This title opens a window onto this creative but anxious era, the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist, including Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H G Wells and Marie Stopes.
This text explores what happened once the monarchy had been swept away after the Civil War and puritans found themselves in power. It examines campaigns to regulate sexual behaviour, reform language, and suppress Christmas traditions, disorderly sports, and popular music.
"For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played an important role in the development of the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana demonstrates how …
