Books in the Clarendon Paperbacks series

Phaedo

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (USA), and the Biblical Archaeology Society's award (1986) for the best scholarly book relating to the Old Testament.

This study describes Lord John Russell's efforts to improve the lot and status of Irish Catholics, both by implementing changes in the landlord and tenant system and by improving the status of the Catholic Church. It provides an account of the role of the Catholic Church in the famine of 1846.

An investigation into Aristotle's metaphysics of nature as expounded in the "Physics". It focuses in particular on his perception of change, a concept which is shown to possess a unique metaphysical structure, with implications that should engage the attention of contemporary analysis.

Virgil's Georgics is considered one of the greatest poems in western literature. It purports to be a didactic poem on agriculture, but its true subject is man and his place in literature and society. Sir Roger Mynors's definitive text is presented here, and his accessible commentary is the fullest understanding of the work available for students and scholars.

This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation of ritual and codes of reciprocity.

After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and methods of the semantic approach to scientific theories, Professor van Fraassen discusses quantum theory in three stages.

This volume stems from the series of Radhakrishnan Lectures in development economics delivered by Professor Bhagwati at the University of Oxford in June 1992. It provides an overview of Indian development which sets it in an international political and intellectual context.

The Gorgias is a vivid introduction to the central problems of moral and political philosophy. In the notes to his translation, Professor Irwin discusses the historical and social context of the dialogue, expounds and criticises the arguments, and tries above all to suggest the questions a modern reader ought to raise about Plato's doctrines. No knowledge of Greek is necessary.

Dr Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom and justice, which are largely ignored in modern moral philosophy, centrally define the good for Man. Success, pride and worldliness remain part of our moral thinking. The conflict between these values leads to contradictions in our understanding of the moral life.

A novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. In the light of his theory, the author considers three types of problems - the distribution of resources, property rights, and the saving of life - and provides unconventional answers.

A study of the social character of the British working class from the 1880s to the 1950s. Its central themes are working-class cultures and organizations, the relationship between the working class and other classes and the class changes wrought by two World Wars.

This study of medieval Christian marriage between 1000 and 1500 draws upon aspects of social, religious, political and legal history to look into the heart of human experiences within families and marriages. It provides case studies and sources, including the letters of Heloise and Abelard.

Poetics

Considering Blake's prophetic books of the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time, this study argues that his work is less the expression of isolated genius than the product of a complex response to the cultural politics of his contemporaries.

Scheffler has now taken the opportunity to supplement this edition of his original work with three substantial subsequently published essays in which he responds to criticism of the book and further develops various of its themes and arguments.

This study attempts to further scholastic understanding with regards to the relationship between the Third Reich and the German population, in order to examine the regime's success and effectiveness.

Concerned with the problem of existence in mathematics, this volume develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of constructibility. It explores the philosophical implications of such an approach in the writings of Field, Burgess, Maddy and Kitcher.

This study of the Navy during the English Revolution argues that the Commonwealth Navy did not, as is often assumed, stand back from domestic political controversies, but was deeply influenced by the revolutionary circumstances of its origins.

An examination of the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police, concentrating on entrepreneurship, crime and delinquency, and the history of detective work in London.

This is a comprehensive history of Macedonia, the home of Philip II and Alexander the Great. It traces the history of the Macedonian state in action from early times right down to 167 BC, and analyses its institutions in Europe, Asia, and Egypt.

Choices can be wise or foolish, and feelings can be apt or off the mark. In this book, the author explores what is at issue in narrowly moral questions, and in questions of rational thought and conduct in general.

In a brilliant synthesis of the work of Foucault, Durkheim, Weber, Kircheimer, and Marx, this book develops a completely new, comprehensive, and highly stimulating theory of punishment.

Surveys the history of a great Mediterranean federation whose homelands were Catalonia and Aragon. It incorporates the results of recent research into the archives of Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, and other Mediterranean lands.

This study presents a liberal view about the nature and value of community and culture, and links it to more familiar views on individual rights and state neutrality. The author argues that liberalism when properly applied permits the legal constraints necessary to protect ethnic minorities.

An analysis of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superceded. The text provides a coherent statement of the theoretical basis of market socialism and justifies it as a viable political option, presenting an alternative to both New Right and Socialist views.

Written by one of the leading religious scholars, this book offers a different presentation of New Testament theology. It sets up an imaginary dialogue on the central concepts of the Christian faith between the various authors of the New Testament - aiming to capture the differing attempts of these first Christians to explore their faith.

This book first offers a new way of analysing styles of legal reasoning - between more "formal" and more "substantive" styles, then analyses the differences between English and American legal thought and practice.

George Berkeley (1685-1753) is famous for his bold metaphysical doctrine that matter does not exist, and that the sensations we take to be caused by an independent external world are instead caused directly by God. Kenneth P. Winkler offers an interpretation and assessment of the arguments Berkeley gives.

A re-reading of "The Prelude" in the light of poststructuralist and feminist theory, this work is a study of the poem by both a Wordsworthian and feminist critic. The book is a contribution to Wordsworth studies and to debates as they bear on the history and politics of Romanticism itself.