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  • Between Laughter and Satire
    Conal Condren
    This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes the conventional genealogical view that humour theory dates from antiquity and outlines an alternative conceptual history. It critically examines the nostrum that humour is universal...
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    48,20 €

  • Hobbes, the Scriblerians and the History of Philosophy
    Conal Condren
    Satire was core to the work of Thomas Hobbes although his critics also used it as a weapon to ridicule him. Condren uses Hobbes as an example to demonstrate that an examination of the persona is needed to advance our understanding of a writer’s philosophy. ...
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    107,11 €

  • The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts
    Conal Condren
    Conal Condren examines the criteria for judging both works of political theory and texts associated with related academic genres. He discusses the rhetoric surrounding terms like originality,' 'influence,' and 'coherence,' the value of these terms as criteria of textual assessment, and their use in charting the history of texts.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy ...
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    71,85 €

  • George Lawson’s ’Politica’ and the English Revolution
    Conal Condren
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    55,66 €

  • The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
    Conal Condren
    This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of language,intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to...
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    208,15 €