Gregory Claeys: 6 books

Book cover of Imperial Sceptics

Imperial Sceptics

British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920

by Gregory Claeys
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010

Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850–1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and the writings of John Hobson, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the contours of resistance...
Book cover of Marx and Marxism
by Gregory Claeys
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed...
Book cover of Mill and Paternalism
by Gregory Claeys
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013

Many discussions of J. S. Mill's concept of liberty focus too narrowly on On Liberty and fail to acknowledge that his treatment of related issues elsewhere may modify its leading doctrines. Mill and Paternalism demonstrates how a contextual reading suggests that in Principles of Political Economy,...
Book cover of Dystopia

Dystopia

A Natural History

by Gregory Claeys
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016

Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central...
Book cover of A New View of Society and Other Writings
by Gregory Claeys, Robert Owen
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007

In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world',...
Book cover of Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (set)
by Gregory Claeys
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

This groundbreaking new work explores modern and contemporary political thought since 1750, looking at the thinkers, concepts, debates, issues, and national traditions that have shaped political thought from the Enlightenment to post-modernism and post-structuralism. Encyclopedia of Modern Political...
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