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Contractarianism and Rational Choice
David Gauthier’s Morals by Agreement (1986) is the most complete and suggestive contractarian theory of morality since the work of Rawls. In this...
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Roman Painting
This book is the first general history of Roman painting written specifically for English-language readers. Large numbers of wall-paintings have...
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Virgil: Aeneid Book XI
Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas’ struggle against the Latins. In it, Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas, the great...
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Cicero: On Duties
De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero’s last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of...
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The Comedy of Errors
An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. This edition of The Comedy of Errors is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series. Like...
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The Second Part of King Henry VI
Shakespeare’s plays about the reign of Henry VI, written at the beginning of his career, were for a long time undervalued. This was because of...
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Analyzing Shakespeare’s Action
In this book, Charles and Elaine Hallett invite the reader to follow the actions of Shakespeare’s plays. They show that the conventional division...
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Morphology
This is an updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews’s well-known Morphology, first published in 1974. It includes chapters on...
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English around the World
Only a few centuries ago the English language consisted of a collection of dialects spoken mainly by monolinguals and only within the shores of a...
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Spanish Romantic Literary Theory and Criticism
This study provides a fresh assessment of Spanish Romanticism through a sympathetic appraisal of its literary theory and criticism. It identifies the...
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At Face Value
This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day concentrates mainly on...
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In Respect to Egotism
Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its...
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New Light on Boswell
Boswell’s Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This collection of new essays,...
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Sporting with the Gods
Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of play, game, and sport as they are reflected in American literature and culture. The \'race\' for...
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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment
The period 1660–1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important...
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Situated Learning
In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated...
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The Skills of Argument
The Skills of Argument presents a comprehensive empirical study of informal reasoning as argument, involving subjects across the life span. Subjects...
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Rationality in Action
This anthology is intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, economics, and political...
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The Taming of Chance
In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary...
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The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
This volume studies the concept of a political language, of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has...
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The Art of Ancient Greece
This book, a companion volume to Professor Pollitt’s The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (published by the Press in 1983), presents a...
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The Judgment of Sense
With the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and diverse literature about art...
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Inventing the French Revolution
How did the French Revolution become thinkable? Keith Michael Baker, a leading authority on the ideological origins of the French Revolution,...
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A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Jewish medieval philosophy has formed the subject of much research over the past thirty years since the appearance of Gutmann’s Philosophies of...
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