The Politics of the Book - A Study on the Materiality of Ideas

Explores several classic works of social and political thought, examining how the history of their publication materially affected their meaning and reception over time. Case studies include works by Durkheim, Mead, Marx, Du Bois, and Weber.

About the author

Filipe Carreira da Silva is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is the author of the prizewinning Mead and Modernity: Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics.
Mónica Brito Vieira is Professor of Political Theory at the University of York and the author of The Elements of Representation in Hobbes: Aesthetics, Theatre, Law, and Theology in the Construction of Hobbes's Theory of the State. She is also a coauthor of Representation.

Product details

• Authors: Monica Brito Vieira, Mónica Brito Vieira, Monica (Professor of Political Theory Brito Vieira, Filipe Carreira Da Silva, Filipe (University of Lisbon) Carreira da Silva
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780271083421
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08342-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book; Penn State Series in the Histo; Penn State Series in the Histo; Penn State Series in the History of the Book; Penn State the History of the
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous