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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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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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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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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts must have explanation. In this volume, the first on the topic in the English...
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The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics
There is now a renewed concern for moral psychology among moral philosophers. Moreover, contemporary philosophers interested in virtue, moral...
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Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800
This is the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England and it demonstrates that far from declining by 1750...
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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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Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ
At first glance, Paul’s words to the Corinthians about being the body of Christ seem simple and straightforward. He compares them with a human body...
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property
In Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, Wolfram Schmidgen draws on legal and economic writings to analyse the description of houses,...
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Recovering Shakespeare’s Theatrical Vocabulary
In this rigorous investigation of the staging of Shakespeare’s plays, Alan Dessen wrestles with three linked questions: (1) what did a playgoer at...
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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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Philosophy, Biology and Life
It has been claimed that following the decline of Marxism and Freudianism, Darwinism has become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day. In the...
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Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship
Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship confronts a question that is central to Aristotle’s political philosophy as well as to contemporary...
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Napoleon and English Romanticism
Napoleon Bonaparte occupied a central place in the consciousness of many British writers of the Romantic period. He was a profound shaping influence...
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Shakespeare on Masculinity
Masculinity was a political issue in early modern England. Phrases such as courage-masculine or manly virtue took on a special meaning and signified...
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
According to Rousseau, the best relationship between unequals is one of ‘benificence’, giving, receiving and repaying benefits. This book...
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Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?
Are humans composed of a body and a nonmaterial mind or soul, or are we purely physical beings? Opinion is sharply divided over this issue. In this...
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The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London
In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of the ancient City of London within three days. All that had been familiar, settled, known,...
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