Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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
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Becoming Foucault
The Poitiers Years
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512825145
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucault’s biographers have neglected this period, preferring instead...
The Color of Equality
Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253191
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality...
Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812252965
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarkably, despite the fact that it was perhaps the most...
The Belief in Intuition
Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252934
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Within the Western tradition, it was the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler who laid out and explored the nonrational power of "intuition" at work in human beings that plays a key role in orienting...
Survival
A Theological-Political Genealogy
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252873
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation...
Assembling the Local
Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812252736
Pub Date: January 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In 1817, in a region of the eastern coast of British India then known as Cuttack, a group of Paiks, the area's landed militia, began agitating against the East India Company's government, burning down...
Élie Halévy
Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 9780812252033
Pub Date: June 2020
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
An intellectual biography of the renowned and influential observer of the "era of tyrannies"Élie Halévy (1870-1937) was one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third...
The Anthropological Turn
French Political Thought After 1968
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780812252163
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
A close look at post-1968 French thinkers Régis Debray, Emmanuel Todd, Marcel Gauchet, and Alain de BenoistIn The Anthropological Turn, Jacob Collins traces the development of what he calls a tradition...
Secularism and Hermeneutics
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812251258
Pub Date: June 2019
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible. However, this assumption concealed a...
The Moment of Rupture
Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9780812251593
Pub Date: August 2019
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks,...

Becoming Foucault
The Poitiers Years
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512825145
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
The Color of Equality
Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253191
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Violence and Power in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812252965
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
The Belief in Intuition
Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252934
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Survival
A Theological-Political Genealogy
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252873
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Assembling the Local
Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812252736
Pub Date: January 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Élie Halévy
Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 9780812252033
Pub Date: June 2020
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
The Anthropological Turn
French Political Thought After 1968
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780812252163
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Secularism and Hermeneutics
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812251258
Pub Date: June 2019
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
The Moment of Rupture
Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9780812251593
Pub Date: August 2019
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages