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Writing and European Thought 1600–1830
Writing and European Thought 1600–1830 argues for the central importance of writing to conceptions of language, technological progress, and Western...
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Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England
During the past quarter of a century, the study of patronage-theatre relations in early modern England has developed considerably. This, however, is...
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all...
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The Design Inference
The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating their key trademark: specified events of small probability. Just about anything that...
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Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840–1940
This original and provocative study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in order to argue that...
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Shakespeare’s Victorian Stage
This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare’s history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean....
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all...
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Is Nature Enough?
Is nature all there is? John Haught examines this question and in doing so addresses a fundamental issue in the dialogue of science with religion....
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Epicurus and Democritean Ethics
The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often...
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Jane Austen and the Theatre
Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. As an adult she went to the theatre whenever opportunity arose. Scenes in her novels often...
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Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare’s plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at...
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Is Nature Enough?
Is nature all there is? John Haught examines this question and in doing so addresses a fundamental issue in the dialogue of science with religion....
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Galen: On Diseases and Symptoms
Galen’s treatises on the classification and causation of diseases and symptoms are an important component of his prodigious oeuvre, forming a...
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Swift’s Parody
Jonathan Swift’s prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it...
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Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Playwrights throughout history have used the emotion of wonder to explore the relation between feeling and knowing in the theatre. In Shakespeare and...
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Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy
This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the philosophy of language from Locke to...
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Science and Ethics
In Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic...
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Reason’s Grief
In Reason’s Grief, George Harris takes W. B. Yeats’s comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a...
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Orientalism in French Classical Drama
Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays...
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Performing Shakespeare’s Tragedies Today
What does it mean to perform Shakespeare’s Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies in the modern theatre? This book brings together the reflections of a...
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The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however,...
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Understanding Space-Time
Presenting the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as a philosophical development DiSalle reflects our increasing understanding...
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Socratic Virtue
Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit...
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Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
This is the most complete critical survey to date of women’s literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch’s wide-ranging analysis of...
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