History of Ideas

The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic theories to interpret...

How did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? By treating modernity as a ubiquitous category in which ideas of progress and deca...

The Human A Priori is a collection of essays by A.W. Moore, one of them previously unpublished and the rest all revised. These essays are all conce...

The Politics of German Idealism reconstructs the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel against the background of their social-historical...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for ...

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. H...

This innovative monograph is of major significance for not only students and academics undertaking research on the history of Mexico during the lon...

An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin Americaand beyondThe rise of nation-states is a hallmark of ...

Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and conce...

First published in 1981, T. J. Jackson Learss No Place of Grace is a landmark book in American studies and American history, acclaimed for both its...

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics   In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of...

During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectualsincluding W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist Willi...

'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'We English men have ...

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equa...

The period from the 1870s to the 1920s was marked by an interplay between nationalisms and internationalisms, culminating in the First World War, o...

Dieser Band versammelt Texte aus dem Nachlass Moritz Schlicks über den Begriff und die Geschichte der Philosophie. Ein großer Teil davon gehört zum...

The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world, in wave after wave of struggles ag...

Although Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major ...

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equa...