History of Ideas

What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How...

Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetu...

German Idealism is arguably the most influential force in philosophy over the past two hundred years. This major four-volume work is the first comp...

Since media is omnipresent in our lives, it is crucial to understand the complex means and dimensions of media in history, and how we have arrived ...

History, Metaphors, and Fables collects the central writings by Hans Blumenberg and covers topics such as on the philosophy of language, metaphor t...

This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offerin...

School of Thought 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty from ancient time...

John Ruskin (18191900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant ...

The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and ...

A GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READ 2017Brilliant. One of those rare books that forces you to ask what the hell youre doing with your life. George Monbiot...

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining ration...

A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the anticolonial century. The sparks of co...

In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reap...

Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the association of the early modern Japanese intellectual institution calle...

''Enthralling'' PHILIP PULLMAN''Such a hopeful book'' ELIZABETH DAY''GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world'' RUTGER BR...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' E...

A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known h...

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-wr...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER This book is beautiful Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and giv...

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varouf...

The notion that public intellectuals in the US are in decline has again become fashionable with their portrayal as trapped between Academe and the ...

Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hect...

The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic Wes...

Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the association of the early modern Japanese intellectual institution calle...

Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a wit...