Using France as the most representative case of a Catholic context, Andre J. Belanger argues that as French society became more secularized intellectuals replaced the clergy as arbitrators of justice and enlightenment. Catholic morality was consolidated by the scholastic traditi…
H.L.A. Hart developed 'The Concept of Law' while A.W.B. Simpson was studying and teaching at Oxford. Simpson wittily recreates the culture of Oxford philosophy in the '50s, providing a new perspective of one of the most famous works of philosophy of the 20th century and casting …
"In this look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement - the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of improvement" is manife…
The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, 'A Culture of Improvement' documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.
