History of Ideas

Maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect with the study of literature This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference wo...

In The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934 1940, Elinor Taylor provides the first study of the relationship between the British novel and the anti...

Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 ChinaDreaming is a near-universal human experie...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous i...

A genial exercise in public philosophy (Kirkus, starred review) from one of the world's best-known popular philosophersSimon Critchley is an intern...

John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributio...

In Debord, Time and Spectacle Tom Bunyard provides a detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist Intern...

Assessing critical theory today, Emancipation and History focuses on the connection between history and emancipation, centring on the trends that s...

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most widely read authors in the world, from the time of his death to the present--as well as one of the most cont...

The Tudor period remains a source of timeless fascination, with endless novels, TV programmes and films depicting the period in myriad ways. And ye...