In ancient Greek tragedy, happiness was considered a gift of the gods. During the Enlightenment men and women were first introduced to the novel prospect that they could--in fact should--be happy in this life as opposed to the hereafter.

Drawing on many sources including art and architecture, poetry and scripture, music and theology, literature, and myth, this work offers a summation of the history of happiness, and its evolution from divine gift to natural human ...

Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly skeptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?

As acclaimed historian Darrin M. McMahon explains, the concept of genius has roots in antiquity, when men of prodigious insight were thought to possess -- or to be possessed by -- demons and gods.

"Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Darrin M. McMahon shows that well before the French Revolution, enemies of the Enlightenment were warning that the secular thrust of modern philosophy would give way to horrors of an ...

Presenting a scathing attack on the French revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, this work makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs.

The work of David Bien, one of America's foremost historians of eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the ancien régimeand the origins of the French Revolution.

Le génie, nous révèle Darrin M. McMahon, possède une plus longue histoire, qui plonge ses racines dans l’Antiquité grecque et dans la sainteté médiévale.

Overzicht van de evolutie van het geluksbegrip in de westerse filosofische geschiedenis.