History of Ideas

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth cen...

A crucial text in the development of François Laruelle's oeuvre and an excellent starting point for understanding his broader project, Philosophies...

The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many critical studies have focused on...

'Remarkable.' THE TIMES'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN'Fascinating.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE'A thrill ak...

Queering Philosophy provides a critical introduction to and engagement with current conversations and emerging themes at the nexus of queer theory ...

Queering Philosophy provides a critical introduction to and engagement with current conversations and emerging themes at the nexus of queer theory ...

In Plato's Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and ...

What is the nature of the 'laws' that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to understand and judge Engels's a...

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches? Were these persecutions a shrewd tool to oppress women or the poor, or were they just a way of mak...

This book provides a cultural history of cultivation theory, a North American mass communication paradigm best known for arguing that television vi...

Utilitarianism a commitment to the greatest happiness for the greatest number has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics...

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, A...

In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lea...

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethin...

This work delves into the fundamental issue of Otherness, from both sacred texts and communal experiences. While the title adopts the dyad of inclu...

Politicians, judges, and citizens commonly use the phrase rule of law to describe some good that flows from a legal system. But what precisely is t...

Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanaly...

In the spring of 2017, U.S.-based Confucian philosopher Stephen C. Angle took part in a series of dialogues with Chinese Confucians in Beijing. The...

This volume features more than 20 essays that explore the work of one of the most important contemporary philosophers of mathematics. It will help ...

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and ...

At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a scientific doctrine that sought to elimi...

In this Beginners Guide, Peter Hacker, the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and author of a dozen books on his work, introduces ...

In this Beginners Guide, Peter Hacker, the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and author of a dozen books on his work, introduces ...