History of Ideas

The Big Ideas Notebook is a beautifully produced, hard-wearing notebook from the publishers of the Introducing Graphic Guide series - essential ill...

Cultural history tends to elude positive definition. It deals in some sense with culture, and with history, combined in a creative and often critic...

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousan...

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

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist n...

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist n...

Information has a rich but under explored history. The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of in...

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...

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shape...

Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical ...

Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations and races is grounded in the landscape. In doing so, it makes a striking contribution to the...

The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political ...

Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For A...

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own coun...

At a moment when the term Democracy is evoked to express inchoate aspirations for peace and social change or particular governmental systems that ...