History of Ideas

Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a conce...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By con...

The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G. W. F. Hegels remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experien...

The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quar...

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryFoucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about...

A groundbreaking look at Gaia theorys intersections with neocybernetic systems theory  Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and...

This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-81). It is the culmination of his c...

A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the spec...

What is civility, and why has it disappeared? Ann Hartle analyzes the origins of the modern project and the Essays of Michel de Montaigne to discus...

The book aims to analyze how Augmented Reality is perceived by human beings and its effects on us and our society following a phenomenological appr...