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  • Unbelief and Revolution

    Serier serie Lexham Classics
    God's Word illumines the darkness of societyGroen van Prinsterer's Unbelief and Revolution is a foundational work addressing the inherent tension between religion and modernity.As a historian and politician, van Prinsterer was intimately familiar with the growing divide between secular culture and the church in his time. Rather than embrace this division, these lectures, originally published in ... Læs mere

    134,99 kr.

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  • On Revolution

    af Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Læs mere

    55,00 kr.

  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    With linked Table of Contents

    af Max Weber ...
    Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. The Protestant ethic was a force behind an unplanned and uncoordinated mass action that influenced the development of ... Læs mere

    7,94 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were ... Læs mere

    123,86 kr.

  • The Need for Roots

    Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being

    af Simone Weil ...
    Oversat af Ros Schwartz ...
    A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In The Need for Roots, her most famous work, she argued ... Læs mere

    111,85 kr.

  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Læs mere

    204,11 kr.

  • The Psychology of Revolution

    Le Bon examines the psychology of revolutions in general, both religious and political, as well as the mental and emotional qualities of the movements' leaders. Most of his examples are drawn from French history, with a particular emphasis on the French Revolution: its origins and rational, plus its affective, mystic, and collective influences. ... Læs mere

    31,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    af Max Weber ...
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a seminal exploration of the relationship between religious beliefs and economic behavior within the framework of Western society. Max Weber examines how Protestant, particularly Calvinist, values contributed to the development of modern capitalism by fostering a spirit of disciplined labor, frugality, and rational organization. Through his ... Læs mere

    12,00 kr.

  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Læs mere

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  • Rousseau

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    af Robert Wokler ...
    Serier serie Very Short Introductions
    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's ... Læs mere

    64,06 kr.

  • A Discourse on Inequality

    Oversat af Maurice Cranston ...
    In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an ... Læs mere

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  • Enlightenment Volume 1

    af Peter Gay ...
    Serier Bog 1 - Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more sophisticated and ... Læs mere

    104,61 kr.