History of Ideas

This study explores the evolution of Lomonosovs imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years ...

Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixt...

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of ...

Contemporary capitalism produces more and more money, debt, and inequality. These three trends have a common cause: the privilege of private banks ...

Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are ...

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new te...

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new te...

Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial polit...

Re-thinking Rights: Historical Development and Philosophical Justificationtakes a new look at the history of individual rights, focussing on the wa...

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) saw a...

Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality. But many forget that the global, capi...

This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève's work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set o...

Bertrand Russell (18721970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth centurys most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocaly...

In the early twentieth century, André Colomer was perhaps the best-known figure in the anarchist movement. A poet, philosopher, activist, and publi...