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  • Enlightenment Biopolitics

    A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens

    by William Max Nelson ...
    A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the Enlightenment when emancipatory ideals sat alongside the horrors of colonialism, slavery, and race-based ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Ways of Being a Painting

    and other essays

    by William Max Nelson, Laura Esther Wolfson, Garret Keizer, Karen Holmberg, Patrick McGuiness, Dasha Shkurpela ...
    This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions £20,000 Essay Prize. Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style and above all their ability to persuade. Includes essays by William Max Nelson, Laura Esther Wolfson, Garret Keizer, Karen Holmberg, Patrick ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Time of Enlightenment

    Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One

    by William Max Nelson ...
    A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present.The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Five Ways of Being a Painting and Other Essays

    The Winners of the Third Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize

    by William Max Nelson ...
    A collection of essays by the winner and the five finalists of the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style, and above all, their ability to persuade. The judges awarded the first prize to “Five Ways of Being a Painting” by William Max Nelson for ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

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  • How the French Think

    An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

    by Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyleWhy are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An important reason is that in France intellectual activity is regarded not just as the preserve of the thinking elite but for almost ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Terror of Natural Right

    Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, & the French Revolution

    by Dan Edelstein ...
    Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race"—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Lost in Translation

    A Life in a New Language

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Sentimental Savants

    Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France

    by Meghan K. Roberts ...
    An illuminating study of the marriages and family lives of Diderot, Lavoisier, and other geniuses of the Age of Reason.We may imagine the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation—but in reality, the families of scientists and philosophers during the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crafting The Personal Essay

    A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction

    by Dinty W. Moore ...
    Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for ... Read more

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  • The Society of Equals

    by Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of ... Read more

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