History of Ideas

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

Contract Before the Enlightenment represents a fresh investigation of what was then a ground-breaking approach to the law of contract written by Ja...

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream med...

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. 'The be...

This is the first volume compiling English translations of Leibniz's journal articles on natural philosophy, presenting a selection of 26 articles,...

The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowled...

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time...

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time...

AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshap...

The Metaphysics of Practice brings together Wilfrid Sellars's writings on topics to do with action, community, and obligation: published essays, ma...

A lively, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to understanding cold, clinical data and harnessing it to tell a persuasive story.__________How many h...

Above all other titles, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) prized that of logician. He thought of logic broadly, such that it includes not merely f...

Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.   The capacious visual archive stud...