History of Ideas

For many, the word 'pleasure' conjures associations with hedonism, indulgence, and escape from the life of the mind. However little we talk about i...

The development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, the globalization of Chinese food, the histories of various tabo...

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is widely regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of moral philosophy...

The celebrated literary critic and theorist of popular culture Paul A. Cantor predicted that the next greatest work of art in the history of world ...

It is often asserted that postmodernism emerged from 'leftist' Nietzsche-interpretations, but this claim and its implications are rarely explored. ...

The Poverty of Philosophy: Readings in Non and Other Philosophies and Arts of Imminence kicks off with an 8,000 word overture, Poverty of Philosoph...

A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of m...

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

A compelling portrait of one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth. In this v...

Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality...

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Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jamesons remarkable contributi...

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarka...

A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplin...

Immanuel Kant is one of the greatest philosophers in history. As Peter Kreeft here notes, Kant is really two philosophers a philosopher concerned ...

Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person,...

Why did Rousseau failoften so ridiculously or grotesquelyto live up to his own principles? In one of the most notorious cases of hypocrisy in intel...

During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, ...

A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...

A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question. Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Ro...

A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question. Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Ro...