Books in this series examine intellectual history from the Renaissance to the present, chiefly in the geographical areas of Europe and North America but with an eye to broader developments across the globe. The series seeks to publish work of the highest caliber by established scholars as well as by those at the beginning of their academic careers. Projects can be pluralistic in their methodologies and highly ecumenical in their subject matter. But the series editors expect most will study intellectuals and their ideas, their institutions, and their debates, along with the endurance and transformation of conceptual legacies over time, whether within discrete epochs or between and across them.
Series Editors:
Angus Burgin
Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Peter E. Gordon
Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University
Joel Isaac
Associate Professor of Political Thought and History, University of Chicago
Karuna Mantena
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Samuel Moyn
Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Merle Curti Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Camille Robcis
Professor of History and French, Columbia University
Sophia Rosenfeld
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Shaul Bar-Haim
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826050
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The Maternalists explores how mid-twentieth-century British psychoanalysis created a new mother-centered culture, which after 1945 would shape dramatically both welfare ideology and the British welfare state itself.
Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States
Gene Zubovich
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826104
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
408 Pages
In the same way that the rise of the New Right cannot be understood apart from the mobilization of evangelicals, Gene Zubovich shows that the rise of American liberalism in the twentieth century cannot be understood without a historical account of the global political mobilization of liberal Protestants.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers. Utilizing newly available archival sources, Martin Woessner shows how a philosophy student searching for meaning became the most talked-about director of his generation.
Despite his enormous influence, little is known about Michel Foucault’s early years. Michael Behrent provides an account of this period and shows that formative childhood experiences—the family medical profession, the provincial bourgeoisie, the German Occupation, and Catholic education—were decisive for the development of his thought.
Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse—the naturalization of humanity—underlay both of these trends.
Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler
Adriana Alfaro Altamirano
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252934
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
The Belief in Intuition shows that intuition, as Henri Bergson and Max Scheler understood it, leads to a conception of freedom grounded in a sense of individuality that remains true to its "inner multiplicity," thus providing a distinct contrast to and critique of the liberal notion of the self.
In Survival, Adam Stern asks what texts and traditions have made survival a recognizable element of our current political vocabulary. Examining works by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud, Stern shows that survival belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignty and subjection of Christ's body.
Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. In Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt, Caroline Ashcroft argues that what Arendt opposes in political violence is the use of force to determine politics, an idea central to modern sovereignty.
Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India
Upal Chakrabarti
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812252736
Pub Date: January 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In Assembling the Local, Upal Chakrabarti argues that the "local" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, which was itself central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century British India.
Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny
K. Steven Vincent
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 9780812252033
Pub Date: June 2020
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
In this densely contextualized biography, K. Steven Vincent describes how Élie Halévy (1870-1937), one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third Republic, confronted the Dreyfus Affair, World War I, and the rise of interwar totalitarianism while defending a distinctively French version of liberalism.
