History of Ideas

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

Those who knew the famous philosopher Bertrand Russell at the turn of the century referred to him as 'the Day of Judgement'. This acclaimed selecti...

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutsch...

The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is ongoing. During this time ...

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discu...

This book aims to add to existing knowledge of how eighteenth-century ideas of human nature and rights, of universal progress, peace, and wealth we...

Suppressed for centuries, the ideas of French philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet are ever relevant today... Just as the Enlightenment was gaining mome...

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophi...

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophi...

A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, tradition is a...

This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the Humboldtian tradition was transformed and how it gave...

Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece 'Individu et communaut...

A clear, accessible introduction to modern and American thought by the influentual philosopher, psychologist, educator and author William James. Th...

This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstru...

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europes cu...

Spinoza, Peirce and Deleuze are, in different ways, philosophers of immanence. Rocco Gangle addresses the methodological questions raised by a comm...

He might be best known for sex and violence, but Lode Lauwaert shows that the Marquis du Sade sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branch...

Through a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anth...

The collection brings together articles focusing on science, technology and culture in France, all of which intersect in various ways with the rese...

What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itsel...

What counts as music for contemporary thinkers? Why is music of use to philosophers and how do they use it in their work? How do philosophers decid...

These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in...

Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory' gathers together contributions by many of the central theorists in Deleuze studies who have led the way in breakin...

Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substa...

Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the fundamental reality, which creates matter? In The Priority of Mind, Keith Ward mounts a ...

What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the diffusion and reception of ...

This book explores the role of modesty in the thought of Albert Camus. Camusian modesty modestie affirms, against nihilism and absolutism, the n...

This book explores the role of modesty in the thought of Albert Camus. Camusian modesty modestie affirms, against nihilism and absolutism, the n...

In three comprehensive volumes divided into five books, Logic of the Future presents a full panorama of Charles S. Peirce's important late writing...

One of the most conspicuous gaps in the now voluminous literature on populism is an understanding of populism in historical context. To what extent...

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - f...

Kants Transcendental Semantics is a translation of the most influential monograph on Kant published in Brazil, one that launched the Semantic Schoo...

This title was first published in 2000: What was Wittgenstein's relation to theory of meaning in his post-1937 writings and what was his characteri...

This volume is a revised and improved edition of the auction catalogue of Kierkegaards private library. The catalogue has long served as one of the...

Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis h...

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere, which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass me...

This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century womens travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which ...

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explo...

Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte

This book places Benjamins writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any a...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

This title was first published in 2002: I sincerely believe that Dr Kolnai is one of the most original and stimulating thinkers in the field of pol...