History of Ideas

Throughout the twentieth century, the question of culture was a central pillar of social scientific thought. Today, however, the concept has disapp...

This volume demonstrates how Wittgensteins philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new ways of conceptualizing democratic ...

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832) developed a fascinating cosmopolitanism against the background of his panentheistic metaphysics. In Kra...

Monadological Intimacy: The Relational Operation of Folds in Leibniz and Deleuze analyzes and explains G.W. Leibnizs theories of folds and relation...

Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth ...

Rethinking Ernst Bloch offers a critical re-assessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, best-known for his groundbreaking study The Principle of Hope...

The early Frankfurt School and feminism can and should inform each other. This volume presents an original collection of scholarship bringing toget...

African metaphysics question a variety of issues, ranging from the nature of fundamental reality to the meaning of human existence. African philoso...

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure ju...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statue...

John Rawls is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century, and his highly original and influential works...

Nietzsche wrote the philosophical work for which he is most famous while he was coming apart at the seams. The circumstances of Nietzsche's dramati...

This book, the second of two volumes, focuses on the conceptualization of Indigenous Knowledge and Curriculum, Ethiopian/African Philosophy and the...

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuri...

The title of this collection, The Logic of Racial Practice, pays homage to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, who coined the term habitus to name the pre...

This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaards idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis.Taking mimesis as a crucial ...

By constructing the first transnational and interlingual conceptual history of ethnicity, Ethnos of the Earth reveals the pivotal role this concept...

By constructing the first transnational and interlingual conceptual history of ethnicity, Ethnos of the Earth reveals the pivotal role this concept...

This is the first book-length treatment of the life and thought of the Communist intellectual A. L. Morton (19031987) who pioneered studies of utop...

This volume shows how Nancy was able to deconstruct the founding sign of all metaphysics and all transcendence by redefining the concepts of existe...

This book explores G.D.H Coles significant yet often overlooked role in the history of British Sociology from 1920-1960. Eager to achieve a sense o...

This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the l...

Materialism - the view that facts are dependent upon or reducible to physical processes - is one of the most long-standing and controversial of all...