In Intellectual Origins of the Republic, ?zavci investigates the histories of liberalism and nationalism in the late Russian and Ottoman Empires and early Republican Turkey through the prism of the li
Håkon Evju demonstrates how history and historical writing were at the centre of debates over monarchy and monarchical reform politics in Denmark-Norway during the Enlightenment.
Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) has been seen by many as an archetypal example of Catholic and monarchical reaction to the French Revolution and even as the philosophical father of fascism, but accordin
Analysing parliamentary references to the people, this book provides a more nuanced interpretation of eighteenth-century re-evaluations of democracy. It shows how interaction between parliamentarians
English translations of the most influential and debated writings of Félicité de Lamennais, a controversial French priest, the founder of Liberal Catholicism, who left the Church after his ideas were
A much-needed historical perspective in the highly relevant contemporary debates around these two notions by contextualising their discussion from ancient Greece to Soviet Russia
This book offers a powerful, comprehensive and compelling rereading of Hobbes's theory of representation, by reinstating it in a wider pattern of Hobbes’s theorizing about human thought and action in
All but one from a September-October 2005 conference in New York City, 12 essays explore the theory and practice of translating political and social thought. Scholars of the social sciences, history,
