A study of the relationships between music and contemporary media.
Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, looking at key works from Adam Smith, David Hume and Adam Ferguson alongside lesser-known figures.
Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies
This book investigates the role of the moving image in cultural memory, taking into account the impact of digital technologies on visual culture.
This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy - the journal of the David Hume Institute.
Examines the contradictions of fundamentalism as they appear in prophecy, sermon, film and fiction, including work by Gore Vidal, Peter Matthiesen, Thom Jones, Alison Lurie and Pete Dexter.
The history of the house of lords in the modern period (and earlier) has been neglected too long.
In this, the first Reader of Geoffrey Hartman’s work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also... Læs mere
This volume covers the major traditions of thought from Philo to Levinas and, since Jewish philosophy has occurred in broader environments (e.g., Hellenistic Alexandria, Medieval... Læs mere
This book offers a unique comparative exploration of the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity. In comparing the role of tradition in... Læs mere
This volume offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European ‘theory’.
Collects and introduces some of the most important and insightful essays written in the past century by philosophers, political theorists and other thinkers who have reflected on the nature of liberty.