Libros de Gregory Claeys

Historia Del Pensamiento Politico Del Siglo Xix

• 1186 páginas
• En esta obra de referencia fundamental hallará el lector un análisis exhaustivo del pensamiento político fraguado en Europa, América del Norte y Asia a lo largo del siglo que arranca con la Revolución francesa. Elaborado...

Utopias Of The British Enlightenment

• 350 páginas
• This collection of eighteenth-century British utopias shows how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, particularly as a means of focusing on ideas of progress and commercial development. The texts chosen reveal important...

Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850 Vol 2

• 416 páginas
• In the period 1700-1850, the history of utopian thought cast light on ideas of property-holding, community, and social and political reform movements, including those for the extension of rights to slaves, women and animals. This text includes some of...

Dystopia

• The first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia: redefining the central concepts and chronology of the genre, and offering a theoretical overview and prehistory of the concept; an account of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes as dystopias; and...

The Utopia Reader, Second Edition

• 576 páginas
• Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life....

Mill And Paternalism

• Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to..

Imperial Sceptics

Mill And Paternalism

• 255 páginas
• Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading...

Imperial Sceptics

• 356 páginas
• Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850-1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and the writings of John Hobson, Gregory Claeys proposes a...

French Revolution Debate In Britain

• 256 páginas
• Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collective...

Encyclopedia Of Nineteenth Century Thought

• The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers.

Citizens And Saints

• Citizens and Saints is a comprehensive study of the profound rupture in the language of reform and..

Utopias Of The British Enlightenment

• 305 páginas
• This is a major collection of eighteenth-century British utopias. Seven tracts, spanning the century, show how the image of the ideal society was used as a form of social criticism, and particularly as a means of focussing on ideas of progress and commerc...