History of Ideas

'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker'Filled with ins...

Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism...

This reading of Aristotle's Politics builds on the insight that the history of political philosophy is a series of configurations of nature and rea...

The political climate of many Western countries is characterised by political disillusion, distrust and political alienation. These problems cannot...

Kant on Freedom and Rational Agency provides a novel interpretation and rational reconstruction of Kant's doctrine of freedom. Markus Kohl shows ho...

This volume focuses on the famous philosophical correspondence between the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, writing in the final months o...

Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was written late in his career. It presents a theory of 'radical evil' in human nature, touche...

Der Sammelband vereint Studien zur Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus, zur Theologie der Moderne sowie zu Themen der philosophischen und theologi...

In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on ext...

This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, ...

In June 1973, amid ideological rifts in the U.S. gay liberation movement, thousands of people gathered in New York City's Washington Square Park to...

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicit...

Ästhetik des Performativen bei Heine und Nietzsche. Die Studie untersucht die narrativen Strategien, mit denen beide im Medium der jeweils eigenen ...

To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans 'modernity' suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activ...

This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral econom...

The judicial system in a liberal democracy is deemed to be an independent branch of government with judges free from political agendas or societal ...

The Late Scholastics, writing in Europe in the Baroque and Early Modern periods, discussed a wide variety of moral questions relating to political ...

'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm...

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biogr...

Anlasslich des 20-jahrigen Bestehens des Instituts Wiener Kreis erscheint der Band Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung von 1929 in einer Neuedition. S...