Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings
This book shows how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a novel synthesis and argues that his political philosophy, often ...
Continue Reading →Bayle, Political Writings
Pierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ...
Continue Reading →Shakespeare, Henry VI
Henry VI is a series of three history plays by William Shakespeare, set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part ...
Continue Reading →Machiavelli, The Art of War
In medieval warfare, organization, staff services, hierarchy of command, and codes of military law were nonexistent. Machiavelli changed all that. For him, discipline was of ...
Continue Reading →Machiavelli, Florentine Histories
Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories originated under Medici patronage at a moment in which, after the death of Lorenzo the younger in May 1519, Cardinal Giulio de’ ...
Continue Reading →Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy
The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally “Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy”) is a work ...
Continue Reading →Lucan, Civil War
The Civil War (Bellum Civile), is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, telling of the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces ...
Continue Reading →Agrippa, Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Originally published in 1529, the “Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex” argues that women are more than equal to men in ...
Continue Reading →Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism
In this major work, sociologists Boltanski and Chiapello ask why anti-capitalist critique seems so impotent in the face of new forms of market-oriented business practice, ...
Continue Reading →Bunz, Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary
This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism, climate ...
Continue Reading →Most liked books
Zournazi, Hope New Philosophies for Change
September 18, 2023
Penrose, The Road to Reality
September 18, 2023Recent Comments
Categories
- _English Language 1365
- _French Language 55
- _German Language 69
- _Italian Language 54
- _Latin Language 44
- 1750-1850 64
- 17th Century 77
- 17th culture and other cities in Italy 5
- 19th century 45
- 20th Century 151
- 21th Century 75
- Aesthetics 5
- Afrofuturism 3
- Ancient Literature 37
- Anthropocene 1
- Anthropology 3
- Architectural Theory 221
- Architecture + Philosophy 34
- Architecture and Literature, Symbolism 36
- Art 13
- Art Theory 107
- Artificial Intelligence 7
- Artists in Rome 20
- Astronomy 2
- Autobiography 1
- Bernini 19
- Biology 3
- Catalogue 2
- Christian Iconography 18
- Christianity 13
- Cinema 2
- City 45
- Classical 1
- Construction 1
- Contemporary 2
- Design 29
- Digital Architectonics 18
- Drawings 41
- Economy 22
- Empire, Architecture + Catholicism 14
- England & British Isles 26
- Enlightenment Library 127
- Evolution 4
- Fashion 5
- Feminism 20
- Film Festival 1
- France 47
- Gender and Sexuality Studies 5
- Gothic 13
- Greek, Roman Library 99
- Historiography 43
- Humanism 11
- India 5
- Italy 80
- Landscape Architecture 8
- LGBT 1
- Libraries 0
- Linguistics 6
- Literary Criticism 11
- Literary Theory 81
- Literature 71
- Low Countries (Benelux) 14
- Mathematics 55
- Medicine 4
- medieval library 38
- medieval literature 9
- Modern 51
- Monuments + Conservation 27
- Music Theory 1
- Mysticism 4
- Mythology 19
- Nature, Ecology, Animals 4
- Neurobiology 1
- Opera 5
- Philosophy 328
- Physics 16
- Poetry 3
- Politics 73
- Popes, Vatican, Rome 27
- Portrait, Sculpture, Materiality 56
- Post-Modern 22
- Programming 2
- Psychology 22
- Religion 19
- Renaissance 86
- Renaissance Library 80
- Rhetorics 1
- Roman Architecture 20
- Rome 122
- Schinkel 8
- Science 54
- Sociology 21
- Sound 7
- Sources 56
- Spain 10
- Switzerland 48
- Uncategorized 72
- Urbanism 53