History of Ideas

Buddhism is one of the oldest and largest of the world's religions. But it is also a tradition that has proven to have enormous contemporary releva...

The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual vision commands ever increasing attention. As more texts gradually emerge from seemin...

Christos Yannaras' pioneering critique of the concept of the right of the individual is presented in English for the first time. This central aspec...

In Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human, Paul Franco examines the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche, ar...

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained alm...

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Best known for After Virtue, first publis...

The Seventeenth-Century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist Margaret Cavendish went to battle with the great thinkers of her tim...

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to m...

During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philo...

Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the...

Philosophical optimists maintain that the world is optimally arranged and is accordingly valuable, and that the existence of human beings is prefer...

This volume presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The eight ...

In Being and Reason, Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in Spinoza, met...

Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is one of the landmark works in the history of moral philosophy; this volume presents a section-...

The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds represents a new wave of interest in 'the metaphysical Kant'. In recent decades Kant scholars have increasingl...