History of Ideas

Though little known today, Johann Friedrich Herbart was one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. Although...

Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilizationThis book is a breathtaking examination of the two gre...

In Kant and Theodicy: A Search for an Answer to the Problem of Evil, George Huxford proves that Kant's engagement with theodicy was career-long and...

Urban Arabesques examines philosophy as an event of the city and the city as an event of philosophy and how the intertwining of the two generates a...

What is philosophy? A question often asked, but usually in an abstract or speculative way. Rarely do we find a case of 'philosophy' being determine...

Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exer...

Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exer...

This book is both a careful study of Immanuel Kant’s work and the context of that work in the movement known as early modern philosophy. The chief ...

The value of democracy is taken for granted today, even by those interested in criticizing the fundamental structures of society. Things would be b...

The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influentia...

In Plato's Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and ...

Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between ...

This book represents a primer on artistic research, presenting diverse perspectives, strategies, methodologies, and concrete examples of research p...

Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how st...

Ambivalence (as in practical conflicts, moral dilemmas, conflicting beliefs, and mixed feelings) is a central phenomenon of human life. Yet ambival...

Ludwig Wittgenstein changed everything. To understand how, we need to understand what he did to the subject of critical reasoning. Wittgenstein did...

The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason ev...

American culture is changing, a sentiment echoed in phrases such as “the new normal,” and “in these uncertain times,” that regularly introduce all ...

What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought? This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this ...

What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought? This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this ...

One of Victorian England’s most famous philosophers harbored a secret: Herbert Spencer suffered from an illness so laden with stigma that he feared...

The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, th...

In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one anoth...

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 4...

This volume is a guide to the legacy of the philosophical work of Jean-Luc Marion. A leading phenomenologist and philosopher of religion, Marion's ...

Decrypting Power aims to reach a unifying concept that allows the connection of the fundamental theses stemming from critical legal studies, Subalt...

Gathering researchers from or towards Global South epistemologies, this book enriches the debate on crucial questions for liberation in the South a...

Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding examines the political significance of the experience of loneliness. The book conceives of ...

Globalization is one of the most contested and (ab)used concepts of our time. Whether one interprets it as a 'collective illusion' or as the final ...

This volume contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou. Through its fift...