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" Fresh, accurate, and engaging , this new translation of the Book
of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de
Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The
editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that
will be very useful to both students and scholars of the history of
political ideas. The translations themselves gracefully navigate
the fine line between accuracy and readability with considerable
charm. Rounding out this portrait of the turmoil of
fifteenth-century France, the volume is enriched by excerpts from
other works, Christine's Vision, the Book of the Body Politic, and
the Lamentation on France's Ills." -Kate Forhan, Emeritus, Siena
College CONTENTS: Introduction A Note on Translating the Book of
the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan: Her works, Her Times
Suggestions for Further Reading From Christine's Vision (1405) The
Book of the City of Ladies (1404--1405) From The Book of the Body
Politic (1404--1407) From Lamentation on France's Ills (1410) Index
This book’s primary purpose is to commemorate the 300th
anniversary of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, a seminal book in
classical liberal thought. Persian Letters is a delightfully rich,
sympathetic satire of commercial society’s promise and
discontents, covering a wide range of issues and themes that shaped
the direction of liberal modernity. It consists of a series of
letters largely written by two Persian travelers to Paris, who
allow modern readers to view Parisian life from the perspective of
an outsider. The volume includes contributions from prominent
scholars of Montesquieu’s and early career scholars who have
recently unearthed new and exciting avenues for understanding this
important hinge-figure in modern political thought.
Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France
and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings
and princes. Elizabeth I herself translated Plutarch in her later
years, while Jacques Amyot's famous translations of Plutarch's The
Parallel Lives led to the wide distribution of his work and served
as a key resource for Shakespeare in the writing of his Roman
plays, through Sir Thomas North's English translations. Rebecca
Kingston's new study explores how Plutarch was translated into
French and English during the Renaissance and how his works were
invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the
18th century, contributing to a tradition she calls 'public
humanism'. This book then traces the shifting uses of Plutarch in
the Enlightenment, leading to the decline of this tradition of
'public humanism'. Throughout, the importance of Plutarch's work is
highlighted as a key cultural reference and for its insight into
important aspects of public service.
Emotions are at the very heart of individual and communal actions.
They influence our social and interpersonal behaviour and affect
our perspectives on culture, history, politics, and morality.
Emotions, Community, and Citizenship is a pioneering work that
brings together scholars from an array of disciplines in order to
challenge and unite the disciplinary divides in the study of
emotions. These carefully selected studies highlight how emotions
are studied within various disciplines with particular attention to
the divide between naturalistic and interpretive approaches. The
editors of this volume have provided a nuanced and insightful
introduction and conclusion which provide not only an overarching
commentary but a framework for the interdisciplinary approach to
emotion studies.
The rationalist ideal has been met with cynicism in progressive
circles for undermining the role of emotion and passion in the
public realm. By exploring the social and political implications of
the emotions in the history of ideas, contributors examine new
paradigms for liberalism and offer new appreciations of the
potential for passion in political philosophy and practice.
Bringing the Passions Back In draws upon the history of political
theory to shed light on the place of emotions in politics; it
illustrates how sophisticated thinking about the relationship
between reason and passion can inform contemporary democratic
political theory.
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