Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline. The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different...
Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual histo...
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future.
For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post-World War II moment...
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is base...
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud's most famous work, under the general editorship of James Strachey and authorized by Freud. Editorial matter by Samuel Moyn. Carefully chosen and thematically organized commentaries, including letters between Albert Einstein and Freud and a new essay by Amy Allen adapted for this Norton Critical Edition. Topics include "The Meaning of Psychoanalysis," "The Infant, the 'Oceanic Feeling,' and the Question of Religion," "Aggression and Peace," "Culture and Pessimism in Cold War Liberalism," and...
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud's most famous work, under the general editorship of James Strachey ...