"The Enlightenment has been represented in radically opposing ways: on the one hand, as the throwing off of the chains of superstition, custom, and usurped auth

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and

The Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going beyond the selective emancipation of whi

Readership: Readers with an interest in the European Enlightenment; intellectual and cultural historians; scholars and students of philosophy.