History of Ideas

From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created t...

An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and cultureThe university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal...

What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon...

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...