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  • Selected Essays

    by David Hume ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, comprehensively shows how far he succeeded. From `Of Essay Writing' to `Of the Rise and Progress of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England

    Edited by Stephen Copley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature
    Recent scholarship had emphasised the importance of a number of non-literary, economic and social debates to the understanding of Augustan Literature. Debates over the place of land, money, credit and luxury in society, as well as strands of radical thinking, are prominent throughout the period.Originally published in 1984, this anthology of eighteenth century writings about contemporary society ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Beyond Romanticism

    New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780-1832

    Edited by Stephen Copley, John Whale ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism
    First published in 1992. Beyond Romanticism represents a substantial challenge to traditional views of the Romantic period and provides a sustained critique of ‘Romantic ideology’. The debates with which it engages had previously been under-represented in the study of Romanticism, where the claims of history had never had quite the same status as they have had in other periods, and where ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

    by David Hume, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 12 - Delphi Series Seven
    The Scottish philosopher, historian and essayist David Hume is known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. Hume conceived philosophy as the inductive, experimental science of human nature, building on the epistemology of the English philosopher John Locke, which enabled him to explore how the mind acquires knowledge. This comprehensive eBook presents Hume’s complete works, ... Read more

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  • The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    The eighteenth-century philosopher's landmark treatise against monarchy that inspired the French and American Revolutions."Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract—the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of ... Read more

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  • The Stoic

    A Biography of Seneca

    by Francis Caldwell Holland ...
    Fabulous wealth, literary fame, exile, an amazing come back to the height of political power and a tragic ending – the life of Lucius Annaeus Seneca - aka Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca – is one of the great untold stories of Ancient Rome. In The Stoic, Francis Holland presents a riveting portrait of the prolific but mysterious Roman statesman and philosopher whose works remain popular and ... Read more

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  • The Essential Works Of David Hume

    by David Hume ...
    Four classic works by David Hume with an active table of contents.Works include:Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionAn Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingThe History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688A Treatise of Human Nature ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of the Laws

    by Charles de Montesquieu ...
    This treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously in 1748, has become one of the most influential works of political science ever written. French philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu wrote this piece under the inspiration of such political theorists as René Descartes, Nicholas de Malebranche, and Niccolò Machiavelli. The ideas laid forth by Montesquieu in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke, David Womersley ...
    Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. Eloquent and profound, A ... Read more

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  • The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." This statement exemplifies the main idea behind "The Social Contract", in other words that man is essentially free if it weren't for the oppression of political organizations such as government. Rousseau goes on to lay forth the principles that he deems most important for achieving political right amongst people. ... Read more

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  • Seneca: Moral and Political Essays

    by Seneca, John M. Cooper ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and moral outlook of an ancient Stoic thinker intimately involved in the governance of the Roman empire in the mid first century of the Christian era. A ... Read more

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  • The Commonwealth of Oceana

    by James Harrington ...
    "The Commonwealth of Oceana", published 1656, is a composition of political philosophy written by the English politician and essayist, James Harrington. Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660.The unsuccessful first attempt to publish Oceana was officially censored by Lord Protector Oliver ... Read more

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