History of Ideas

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were ...

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were ...

Baruch Spinoza is one of the most important and original thinkers of the modern period. His work inspired religious free-thinkers and political rad...

A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it wi...

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosoph...

In this extraordinary contribution to Nietzsche studies, Robert Alejandro offers an original interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy vie...

This book takes Confucian ethics as the main line, time and space as the longitude and latitude, and concisely demonstrates the changes of Chinese ...

In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelbergs The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a ...

In Hegels aesthetics, the element of speculative philosophy is always a notorious aspect that attracts the most complaints from modern art criticis...

During the 1940s, Greece experienced some of the most significant moments in the contemporary history of the country, defining the socio-political ...

Herbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times. This summary of Hegel's sy...

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

This open access book focuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of ...

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the...

The history of early modern biblical scholarship has often been told as a teleological narrative in which a succession of radical thinkers dethrone...

In dieser sozialhistorischen Monographie werden die beiden Theologen Walter Rauschenbusch (18611918) und Martin Rade (18571940) in einer transatlan...

Learning behind Bars is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year...

Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlighte...

In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety....

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20t...

This monograph studies the idea that there is only a single concept of mass in physics. Notably, this is so not since Albert Einstein, as is the ca...

Calling for a revival of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant, Kenneth Rose overcomes the forgetfulness of being th...

This is the first book-length study of wartime Confucianism in any language, providing new insights into key developments in Confucian thought and ...

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of article...

There are two common responses to skepticism, the epistemological claim that knowledge is at least non-existent and perhaps also unachievable, and ...