A blind spot? the birth of an ideology clearing away the rubbish print culture nationalising religion the culture of science anatomising human nature the science of politics secularising modernising happiness from good sense to sensibility nature did the mind have a sex? education - a panacea the vulgar the pursuit of wealth reform progress the revolutionary era - "modern philosophy" lasting light?

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

1. Introduction 2. Fear, interest and honor 3. The spirit and its expression 4. The ancient world 5. Medieval Europe 6. From Sun King to Revolution 7. Imperialism and World War I 8. World War II 9. Hitler to Bush and beyond 10. General findings and conclusions.

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A Cultural Theory of International Relations

Preface 1. The case for the Enlightenment 2. Scotland and Naples in 1700 3. The intellectual worlds of Naples and Scotland 1680-c.1725 4. The predicament of 'kingdoms governed as provinces' 5. Vico, after Bayle 6. Hume, after Bayle and Mandeville 7. The advent of Enlightenment: political economy in Naples and Scotland 1730-1760 Conclusion: the Enlightenment vindicated? Bibliography Index.

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The case for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760

Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution.

The book suggests a transition from a relational worldview premised on the socio-political ethos of adaptation towards a transformative worldview premised on the ethos of solidarity and equality. Expansively developing Vygotsky's revolutionary project, the Transformative Activist Stance integrates insights from a vast array of critical and sociocultural theories and pedagogies and moves beyond their impasses to address the crisis of inequality. This captures the dynamics of social transformation and agency in moving beyond theoretical and political canons of the status quo. The focus is on the nexus of people co-creating history and society while being interactively created by their own transformative agency. Revealing development and mind as agentive contributions to the 'world-in-the-making' from an activist stance guided by a sought-after future, this approach culminates in implications for research with transformative agendas and a pedagogy of daring. Along the way, many key theories of mind, development and education are challenged and radically reworked.

The Transformative Mind: Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education

Anthropology and Conjectural History in the Enlightenment

1 Life and times of a citizen of Geneva 2 Culture, music, and the Corruption of Morals 3 Human nature and civil society 4 Liberty, virtue and citizenship 5 Religion, education, and sexuality 6 Vagabond reverie Further reading, Index

Rousseau : a very short introduction

This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of western political thought during the European Enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. Every major theme in eighteenth-century political thought is covered in a series of essays at once scholarly and accessible, and the essays are complemented by extensive guides for further reading, and brief biographical notes of the major characters in the text, including Rousseau, Montesquieu and David Hume. Of interest and relevance to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels from beginning undergraduate upwards, this volume chronicles one of the most exciting and rewarding of all periods in the development of western thinking about politics, man (and increasingly woman), and society.

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Robert Wokler

Papers

Anthropology and Conjectural History in the Enlightenment

Rousseau : a very short introduction

The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought

Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains

Inventing Human ScienceEighteenth-Century Domains