Ian Hunter

Stephen Gaukroger

Conal Condren

This collection of essays by leading figures in philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher and to the institutional and political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place.

The Nature of a Contested Identity

The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe

This book presents information on Thomas Hobbes' life and literary criticism on his works.

Thomas Hobbes

David Armitage

Andrew Fitzmaurice

Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare's engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.

Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought

Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages.

Word Change and the Nature of Politics

Political Vocabularies

In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place.

Conal Condren

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