History of Ideas

This clear, readable introduction to philosophy presents a traditional theistic view of the existence of God. There are many fine introductions to ...

This clear, readable introduction to philosophy presents a traditional theistic view of the existence of God. There are many fine introductions to ...

Mikael Stenmark examines four models of rationality and argues for a discussion of rationality that takes into account the function and aim of such...

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of so...

Animal rights is now a concept that has achieved wide name-recognition. Vegetarianism, and even veganism, is now commonplace, representing a massiv...

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Afric...

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philo...

Now available in paperback, The intellectual culture of the English country house is a ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging...

At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly co...

In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught u...

In Philosophies of Gratitude, Ashraf H. A. Rushdy explores gratitude as a philosophical concept. The first half of the book traces its significance...

Larry M. Jorgensen provides a systematic reappraisal of Leibniz's philosophy of mind, revealing the full metaphysical background that allowed Leibn...

On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential book but it continues to puzzle, not least in its central claim: the invention of Chri...

A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy and the Open Society it created had decisively won their century-long struggle ...

Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate cir...

Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher, argued that human beings needed government in order to save their lives from being "soli...