History of Ideas

Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. His latest book is a collection of some of the more provocative essays he has published over man...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at sh...

An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice is a state-of-the-art text, simultaneously accessible to introductory students and infor...

Contemporary society very often asks of individuals and/or corporate entities that they perform actions connected in some way with the im­moral act...

Lina Bolzoni's impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its ...

Hans-Georg Gadamer was one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. As a philosopher trained in phenomenology, he established...

Moderately Modern wears its thesis on its sleeve. Modern men and women, those thoroughly imbued with modernitys ideas, hopes, and projects, need to...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back...

Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin seeks to analyze a revi­sionist movement within Thomism in the 20th century over and against the t...

In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its namein ...

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)and the 40...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back...

In the European settlement of the New World, encounter with nature was a drama of success or failure, life or death. As American civilization becam...

Alain Badious 19831984 lecture series on the One is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical con...

Opening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, Contemporary Humanistic Juda...

From Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his six-part BBC One tele...

'Well-being for all is not a dream.'In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchis...

René Descartes: The Complete Correspondence in English Translation is the first complete English translation of the extant correspondence of the po...

This edited collection explores Dante Alighieris contribution to medical, scientific, and spiritual thought in medieval and early modern times. The...

This book presents philosophy as a historical series of answers to two questions: the meaning question (what does it all mean?) and the reality que...

This book explores R.G. Collingwoods concept of metaphysics. It traces the evolution of Collingwoods thought on metaphysics through his published w...