“…This book contains studies of four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition: Machiavelli, whose name is a byword for duplicity, Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, Mill, liberal thinker and champion of individual liberty, and Marx, whose legacy has affected the lives of millions. …”

“…Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. …”

“…He has played a fundamental role in the construction of new ways of thinking and radical changes in the development of Western thought. This book reconstructs and assesses Michel Foucault's writings on the archaeology of knowledge, focusing on the emergence of political economy. …”

“…Ranging widely through the history of Western literature, Paulson focuses particularly on American and English works of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries to discover how questions of evil and sin—and evil and sinful behavior—have been discussed and represented…”

“…It is a fast-paced tour of the Western philosophical tradition, walking you through age-old questions about God, free will, skepticism, truth and perception and introducing you to distinctive features and methods. …”

“…Western art has long sought to find a perfect method of representing the body. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: On arts and artists -- Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America -- Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The church militant : the twelfth century -- The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition : England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution : The nineteenth century -- In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past…”

“…In The Eastern Christian Tradition in Modern Russian Thought and Beyond, Teresa Obolevitch reflects on the ontology and anthropology of neo-patristic synthesis and its connection to Western philosophy, with a focus on the work of Georges Florovsky and Vladimir Lossky. …”

“…But how did it influence Western thought after Greek and Roman antiquity? The question is a difficult one to answer because the most important Stoic texts have been lost since the end of the classical period, though not before early Christian thinkers had borrowed their ideas and applied them to discussions ranging from dialectic to moral theology. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The reality of the world and the intrigues of solipsism -- Acceptance and nonacceptance of the world -- Things in themselves and their cognizability -- Space and time -- Mediated knowledge -- The abstract and the concrete -- Perception, image, concept -- Living nature and the artistic attitude toward it -- Rational thought, dialectical thought, and direct contemplation -- Practice in general and the place of practice in the theory of knowledge -- Practical, theoretical and aesthetic attitudes toward the world, and their unity -- The fundamental positions of materialism and idealism -- Hylozoism and panpsychism -- Hindu mysticism and western European philosophy -- The so-called philosophy of identity -- The sins of mechanistic materialism -- The general laws and relations of being -- Teleology -- Freedom and necessity -- The organism -- Modern science and dialectical materialism -- The sociology of thought: labor and thought as social-historical categories -- The sociology of thought: mode of production and mode of representation -- On so-called racial thought -- Social position, thought, and "experience" -- The object of philosophy -- The subject of philosophy -- The interaction of subject and object -- Society as the object and subject of mastering -- Truth: the concept of truth and the criterion of the truthful -- Truth: absolute and relative truth -- The good -- Hegel's dialectical idealism as a system -- The dialectics of Hegel and the dialectics of Marx -- Dialectics as science and dialectics as art -- Science and philosophy -- Evolution -- Theory and history -- The social ideal -- Lenin as a philosopher…”

“…Presentación del editor: "Access to Western modern and postmodern art requires the mastery of specific cultural codes. …”

“…The Druids first came into focus in Western Europe - Gaul, Britain, and Ireland - in the second century BC. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Roma as homines educandi: a collective subject between educational provision -- Social control and humanism / Sevasti Trubeta -- Educating against the cultural politics and complicities of containment / Cathryn Teasley -- Scapegoated in schools: reading a collective Roma narrative / Alexandra Fidyk -- The Roma people: problem or mirror for Western European society? An exploration of educational possibilities / Elias Hemelsoet -- Beyond numbers: education and policy in the decade of Roma inclusion / Svjetlana Curcic and Shayna Plaut -- The schooling of Romani Americans: an overview / Ian Hancock (o Yanko le Redjosko) -- Integration of Gypsy/ Roma/Traveller children in English schools: Trojan or pantomime horse? …”

“…The specialty traditionally draws on the successes of the Western medical model in developing innovative means of controlling pain where cure is not possible. …”
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“…He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence on present practice. …”

“…It explores one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy, extending from Montaigne, Bacon and Descartes through Hume and Kant. …”
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“…One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even justification for belief) about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind. …”

“…Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. …”

“…These range from Columbus' advocacy of the Western Passage to India, over the trial of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution, to today’s highly charged controversies surrounding euthanasia and embryo research. …”