History of Ideas

What is the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger? Scholarship on Seneca has often historicall...

Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kants theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional th...

One of Victorian Englands most famous philosophers harbored a secret: Herbert Spencer suffered from an illness so laden with stigma that he feared ...

LONGLISTED, THE ALLAN LLOYD SMITH PRIZE FOR BEST MONOGRAPH Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthr...

Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the ea...

The growth and development of the Lincoln Record Society in its first hundred years highlights the contribution of such organisations to historical...

After more than a century, the urgency with which the writing of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche speaks to us is undiminished. Nietzsche ...

Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the ea...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes an illustrated manifesto and an interactive guide to reclaiming the wonder ...

American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth ...

When we criticize social institutions and practices, what kinds of reasons can we offer for such criticism? Political philosophers often assume tha...

A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British lifeFrom its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth cent...

This important collection explores contemporary legal thought (and thought about the law more generally) in relation to its interdisciplinary criti...

This important collection explores contemporary legal thought (and thought about the law more generally) in relation to its interdisciplinary criti...

How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this questio...

How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this questio...

Topics covered include queer worldmaking among Orthodox Jewish gays and lesbians in Israel; the religious lives of Latina and Black trans activists...

The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern Europ...

In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form...

In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes ...

Heidegger´s Nietzsche: European Modernity and the Philosophy of the Future offers a study of two key figures in the history of philosophy. By way o...