Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas & terms in it have become part of the standard vocabulary, such as the distinction between 'ideal-regarding' & 'want-regarding' principles & the division of principles into aggregative & distributive.

This volume has survived global change, politically, socially, economically, religiously, and aesthetically, to promote cultural dialogue between China and the West. Besides the scores of annotated sources, the introductory essays remain as authentic and moving as the day of their appearance.

This title examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians & politicians from the classical era to the 20th century. It explores histories of political thought & their justifications for forms of rule, highlighting the persistent & profoundly anti-democratic bias in political & social thought.

This introduction to the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the period of the Renaissance and Reformation provides a thorough historiographical approach which deals with the purpose, method, content, style and significance of these historians within the framework of this 'historical revolution'.

'Work and Wealth' is a seminal vision of Hobson's liberal utopian ideals, which desired to demonstrate how economic and social reform could transform existing society into one in which the majority of the population, as opposed to a small elite, could find fulfillment.

This volume provides a brief historical account of the 'Theory of Logical Types' and describes the problems that gave rise to it, its various different formulations (simple and ramified), the difficulties connected with each, and the criticisms that have been directed against it.

This text deals with the 'Asiatic mode of production' described by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. Drawing on a large body of Soviet writing on historiography, Stephen Dunn develops a critical analysis of the issue and introduces important corrections to the accounts hitherto available in the West.

This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises' views on the subject. In agreement with von Mises, the author regards probability theory as a mathematical science like mechanics or electrodynamics, and probability as an objective, measurable concept like force, mass or charge. On the other hand, Dr Gillies rejects von Mises' definition of probability in terms of limiting frequency and claims that probability should be taken as a primitive or undefined term in accordance with modern...

This reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life.

First published in English 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy.