History of Ideas

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 ...

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...