History of Ideas

The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian'...

This Oxford Handbook engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German tradition. It investigates wome...

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an ...

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an ...

Philosophy is born in its history as pursuit of the wisdom we are never able fully to know. Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as P...

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorismsor short philosophical sayingsappear eve...

Despite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the...

Ferdinand Christian Baur's Die Christliche Gnosis, first published in 1835, is considered by many to be the most important book on Gnosticism publi...

Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we...

What is goodness? Is goodness achievable, and if so, how? If being a good person is a matter of doing the right thing, then what is the right thing...

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smiths The Wealth of...

An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-writing at its most useful should share the dy...

The fourth and final volume of Wilhelm Dilthey's correspondence contains correspondence from the last years of his life. During this time, Dilthey ...