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  • Wollstonecraft

    Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

    by Sylvana Tomaselli ...
    A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft’s thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Dialectics of Friendship

    Edited by Roy Porter, Sylvana Tomaselli ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, The Dialectics of Friendship explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship against the backdrop of other relationships.The book begins with an introduction to the subject of friendship in its historical and cultural setting. Following chapters explore the ideal of friendship in classical Greece, and the richness and ambiguities of friendship in the Christian tradition. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Framing Childhood in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals and Prints, 1689–1789

    by Anja Müller ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. Müller focuses on The Tatler, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Female Tatler, and The Female Spectator, arguing that these periodicals contributed ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics

    A Short Introduction to Ethics

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Culture and Society

    Coleridge to Orwell

    by Raymond Williams ...
    Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into the social and economic forces that have shaped British culture and society. Provocative and revolutionary in its day, this work ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Here, Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Flesh in the Age of Reason

    by Roy Porter ...
    'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Rise Of The Novel

    Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

    by Ian Watt ...
    This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers -- Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding -- invented an entirely new genre of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • All About Love

    Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

    by Lisa Appignanesi ...
    Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws on history, philosophy, psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experience in order to tangle with love's paradoxes through the span of our lives.Beginning with the rose-tinted raptures of first love, she proceeds to love in marriage, the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Sincerity and Authenticity

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    Series Book 31 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “A powerful diagram of the moral life from Shakespeare to the present...a book crowded with insights.”—Geoffrey Hartman, New York TimesOne of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics traces the idea of the self across five hundred years of Western cultural history.“One cannot both be sincere and seem so,” André Gide once wrote. Attempting to inhabit sincerity to satisfy social ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • A Biography of Loneliness

    The History of an Emotion

    by Fay Bound Alberti ...
    'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Conscience: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Strohm ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient, medieval, and modern. The Romans identified it, the early Christians appropriated it, and Reformation Protestants and loyal Catholics ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD