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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 24.00David Armitage makes an outstanding contribution with this history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s. He sheds new light on major British political thinkers, and the relationship between Protestantism and empire, theories of property, liberty and political economy, and the emergence of the British identity. Winner of the... more...
Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 15701640
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 44.00A new perspective on two seminal themes in English political thought before the Civil War. more...
Social Psychology
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 40.00A core text on social psychology providing learning and skills support for all undergraduate psychology students. more...
Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...
Visions of Politics: Volume 3, Hobbes and Civil Science
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 27.00The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important work on the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. more...
Machiavelli
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99Niccolo Machiavelli's name has become a byword for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? Quentin Skinner focuses on "The Prince", the "Discourses", and "The History of Florence", and distils from them an introduction to Machiavelli's doctrines. more...
Utilitarianism
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 4.45This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill?s Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions... more...
The Phenomenology of Religious Life
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 20.99The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger?s important 1920?21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered.... more...
Signature Derrida
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 27.50Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that Critical Inquiry encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida’s... more...
Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 15.95"Hickman['s]... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed."... more...









