... of law. It argues that governing must be understood as a complex practice that has emerged as a living tradition within European thought. It highlights that public law must be conceived as an assemblage of rules, principles, canons, maxims, customs, usages, and manners that condition and sustain...

...By the time of his death in 1910 at the age of 68 years, William James had become the most influential American thinker both at home and in Europe not just of his own period, but indeed of any period. This chapter provides a vivid sense of James’s personal involvement with European thought...

...This chapter explores conceptions of evil in theology and modern European thought, addressing three fundamental questions: Why is evil? Who is evil? What is evil? The first section, ‘Who Is Evil?’ examines how people have grappled with their understandings of God and the world in the face...

... (1711) was one of the most important philosophical works of the first part of the eighteenth century. It played a momentous role in turning European thought away from the negative and toward the positive—in nature, religion, morality, and art. These shifts away from the negatives of fear and hostility...

...This chapter explores four alternative conceptions of nature that have emerged in European thought over several centuries – Pre-modern, Enlightenment, Romantic, and Environmental – and considers the belief in the animation of the nature as reflected in Hebrew Scriptures and the work of Plato...

...‘Modern European thought’ describes a wide range of philosophies, cultural programmes, and political arguments developed in Europe in the period following the French Revolution. Throughout this period, many of the wide range of ‘modernisms’ (and anti-modernisms) had a distinctly religious and even...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. It identifies a conflict between the conservative and the radical, the orthodox and the heterodox, with the latter usually...

...This book provides an entirely new look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540, mainly in France and Germany. The lens for this novel perspective is the Latin language shift, from the Latin idiom in which late medieval intellectual...

...This chapter reviews the stories the author encountered when he went to Firawa, which have recurring scenarios and leitmotifs and have a marginalized or maligned individual. The chapter talks about how the djinn resembled the figure of the daemon in European thought, wherein distributors...

... intellectuals who reassessed their heritage and sought for it a space within European thought. The chapter then divides Iqbal's intellectual history into three phases: early Indian, middle European, and late Indian. In each phase, it contrasts Iqbal with particular individuals and schools to show that Iqbal...

...This chapter explores the problem of the Other in the history of modern European thought. It begins with a historical sketch that traces the significant moments and salient features of the problem, focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, when a range of thoughtful but critical...

...This is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. The book shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity...