History of Ideas

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.French philosoph...

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Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.Critique has been a central theme in the Ge...

Christos Yannaras' pioneering critique of the concept of the right of the individual is presented in English for the first time. This central aspec...

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its rela...

First translation into English of Fichte's major work on the French Revolution.The reception history of the French Revolution in France and England...

Tells a new history of materialism from prehistory to the present that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination Traces a lineage of thinkers w...

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly for...

This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religio...

Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightfu...

A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil...

Is it merely an accident of English etymology that ‘imagination’ is cognate with ‘image’? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser exte...

Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquate...

In the most comprehensive account to date of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language, Alexander Stern explores the nature of meaning by putting Be...

Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 ChinaDreaming is a near-universal human experie...

It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christia...

One afternoon in late April 1859 two geologically minded businessmen, John Evans and Joseph Prestwich, found and photographed the proof for great h...

The essays in The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, r...

The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thinkers, scie...