This text investigates different notions of communitarianism and citizenship, and their application within a number of fields, in particular education, politics and social welfare.
Describes a Utopian community of scholar-craftsmen, as seen through the eyes of a naive young traveller. This work aims to clarify Johann Valentin Andreae's elliptical Latin by identifying parallel passages, allusions and sources for his ideas, and by linking Christianopolis with Andreae's other work as satirist, dramatist, poet and mathematician.
Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of fashion, this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.
The author explores how both money and language give worth by providing a medium of exchange; how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and language; and how words transform mere commodities into symbols at once aesthetic and practical.
The 18th century was a unique period of global and fundamental change. Few centuries have produced such a galaxy of historians, and their ground-breaking work has been drawn upon by Derek Beales in his collection of articles and special lectures.
This textbook introduction to current feminist theories maps the development of feminist thought and suggests future directions.
A history of the capitalist culture of work. It demonstrates that its values of respect for wealth and the justification of inequality are neither natural nor inevitable and that they have been actively promoted at all levels of society. The author argues that it is time to consider alternatives.
A history of the capitalist culture of work. It demonstrates that its values of respect for wealth and the justification of inequality are neither natural or inevitable and that they have been actively promoted at all levels of society. The author argues that it is time to consider alternatives.
Offers an account of the nature of psychoanalysis in the postmodern age. This text presents a history and critique of the concept of postmodernism throughout contemporary psychoanalytic thought, giving a critical survey of the complex relations between desire, selfhood and culture.
This book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory - created by an oral culture - reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book.
This is a study of the development of Christian thought and the doctrine of providential evolution. It examines a school of clergymen and demonstrates how they came to endorse Darwinian biology as early as 1884 in Britain, therefore placing the history of the principle in its English context.