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  • Enlightenment Biopolitics

    A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens

    A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the Enlightenment when emancipatory ideals sat alongside the horrors of colonialism, slavery, and race-based ... Leer más

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  • The Time of Enlightenment

    Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One

    A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present.The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future ... Leer más

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  • Five Ways of Being a Painting and Other Essays

    The Winners of the Third Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize

    A collection of essays by the winner and the five finalists of the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style, and above all, their ability to persuade. The judges awarded the first prize to “Five Ways of Being a Painting” by William Max Nelson for ... Leer más

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  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Leer más

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    Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, & the French Revolution

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    Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race"—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be ... Leer más

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  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Leer más

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  • Sentimental Savants

    Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France

    An illuminating study of the marriages and family lives of Diderot, Lavoisier, and other geniuses of the Age of Reason.We may imagine the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation—but in reality, the families of scientists and philosophers during the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in ... Leer más

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  • The Society of Equals

    Traducido por Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of ... Leer más

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  • Human Rights on Trial

    A Genealogy of the Critique of Human Rights

    Series series Human Rights in History
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  • Contributions to L'Année Sociologique

    These reviews, notices, and introductory sections by a major figure in intellectual history represent more than a decade of effort to define and clarify a new form of scientific investigation. Together, they offer a suggestive new picture of Emile Durkheim as "Scholarch" of the "French School" and master of a whole school of social thought.For fifteen years, Emile Durkheim worked on the journal L ... Leer más

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  • Foucault

    The Birth of Power

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    Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach?Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a ... Leer más

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  • On the Spirit of Rights

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