The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope

The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope
Author: Joel Faflak
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442641843

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The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope reflects on the challenging and often vexed work of intellectualism within the public sphere by exploring how cultural materials frame intellectual debates within the clear and ever-present gaze of the public writ large.

French Revolution Debate in Britain

French Revolution Debate in Britain
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2007-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137048921

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Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.

Reforming Ideas in Britain

Reforming Ideas in Britain
Author: Mark Philp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107027284

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An important re-evaluation of radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in British political thought during the French Revolution.

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000158691

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This book investigates Thomas Paine's social and political thought in both its British and American moments. It examines the ways in which Paine's ideas were understood. The book restores him to the position his contemporaries accorded him, that of an important writer on politics and society.