History of Ideas

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...

Our time is the age of postmodernity and of the clash of epochs. But a new age of humanity is rising. It is evolutionity or the evolutionary epoch ...

First published in 1999, this volume follows the work of five influential figures in twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual history. The work...

First published in 1943, and revised for this 1952 edition, this book was intended for use by students of philosophy and as such traditional and mo...

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 book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.' With these words Bertrand Russell introduces w...

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmode...

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical...

'Witty and accessible' ANGELA SAINI'A vital piece of work' ROMA AGRAWAL'Stunning' DAN HICKSKnowledge is power. Time is money. Justice is blind.West...

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of Galileo Galileis engagement with the Almagest, Claudius Ptolemys second-century scientific work on...

This book is the first complete biography of George Minchin Minchin (18451914), professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering Co...

Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. His latest book is a collection of some of the more provocative essays he has published over man...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at sh...

An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice is a state-of-the-art text, simultaneously accessible to introductory students and infor...

Contemporary society very often asks of individuals and/or corporate entities that they perform actions connected in some way with the im­moral act...

Lina Bolzoni's impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its ...