History of Ideas

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. H...

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did w...

In The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, and thirteen other contributors examine the role of God i...

The question of the limits of politics has been at the forefront of debates in critical theory for decades, especially in the French and Italian co...

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

During the past few decades there has been renewed interest in the twentieth-century French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blondel (18611949) and his...

New 2016 paperback edition of the original 1989 printing (out-of-print).Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinke...

This book examines the renewed and vociferous defence of free speech witnessed in relation to a number of recent events, including the Charlie Hebd...

Wie in anderen Wissenschaften wurden auch in der Philosophie die Leistungen und Werke der Frauen stillschweigend unter den Tisch gekehrt. Erst in d...

Many technologies and practices that define the Internet today date back to the 1990s such as user-generated content, participatory platforms and ...

What is perversion? How does it emerge within contemporary thought, politics and culture? To what extent might it be possible to speak of a politic...

In this important new book, Daniel Loick argues that in order to become sensible to the violence imbedded in our political routines, philosophy mus...

For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial role in a large number of academic and societal debates. The Work of Forgetting: Or...

The eighteenth-century text Work on Women by Louise Dupin (also known as Madame Dupin, 1706-1799) is the French Enlightenment's most in-depth femin...

This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, a...

Dieser Band versammelt Texte aus dem Nachlass Moritz Schlicks über den Begriff und die Geschichte der Philosophie. Ein großer Teil davon gehört zum...

Life on earth is currently approaching what has been called the sixth mass extinction, also known as the Holocene or anthropocene extinction. Unlik...

Omnipresent in popular culture, especially in film and literature, the theme of the 'end of the world' is often rejected from contemporary philosop...

Offering a vital reflection on the unity and diversity of the modern world, this important new book connects with the current debate on multiple mo...

The received view of Martin Heidegger's work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing ...

The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Félix Guattari's thought for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural encounters...

In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The bo...

The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Félix Guattari's thought for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural encounters...