History of Ideas

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

Tony Judt provides a sharp and intellectual ideological description of mid-twentieth century French intellectuals “Past Imperfect is a forthright a...

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrah...

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek...

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions and its intersection with emotion...

The early enlightenment has been seen as an epoch-making period in the development of modern Europe, marking the beginnings of the transition from ...

'History is past politics, politics is present history.' Thus observed Edward Augustus Freeman, 19th-century historian and public intellectual. He ...

Descartes's Method develops an ontological interpretation of Descartes's method as a dynamic and, within limits, differentiable problem-solving cog...

This book presents a history of the volitional theory of causation--the philosophical proposal that volition, or will, of the same or broadly the s...

This edited collection lends its origin to recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside hum...

A compelling argument for adopting the concept of “mutual integration” to overcome injustice and enhance social solidarity. The public culture of t...

Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu: Capturing Cultural Capital propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argu...

Now is a time of tremendous anxiety about the present and future state of the world. The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy never dec...

By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques R...

Immanuel Kant introduced a new paradigm into modern moral philosophy, first with his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals in 1785, followed by ...

Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.No ordinary study of Hegel, H...

'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why th...

The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death an...

Human beings depend more on technology than any other animal--the use of tools and weapons is vital to the survival of our species. What processes ...

Hilary Putnam’s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life emphasizes both the nature of Hilary Putnam’s link to the Neopositivist...