History of Ideas

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhar...

An interrogation of the often-unexamined assumption that silence is oppressive, to consider the multiple possibilities silence enables. The volume ...

Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and by tracing it...

'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosop...

Placing struggles for communication rights within the broader context of human rights struggles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this b...

Offering 12 interviews with postcolonial thinkers in the social sciences and humanities, this collection features theorists such as Sara Ahmed and ...

'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theori...

Kant's philosophical achievements have long overshadowed those of his German contemporaries, often to the point of concealing his contemporaries' i...

A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began...

Verschwindet die Religiosität in der Moderne oder ist im Gegenteil eine Rückkehr der Religionen zu verzeichnen? Das Handbuch beleuchtet die Dialekt...

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas an...

In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon ...

Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow examines the genealogy of the Jungian shadow in Romantic and post-Ro...

This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in ...

Defines how Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment influenced later European revolutionary movementsIn the eighteenth and early nineteenth centu...