History of Ideas

How Robespierres career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controver...

A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how weve changed as a nation. ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER This book is beautiful Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and giv...

City-state Greece and nation-state Europe were civilisations of a special kind. Historical and geographical conditions favoured, in both cases, the...

This volume makes available for the first time critical editions of John Locke's A Vindication and A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Ch...

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveal...

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital...

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and ...

The first book to address the historical failures of philosophyand what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of...

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experi...

An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history - from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politi...

'A landmark new book.' - The Guardian Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid...

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P. M. S. Hacker's papers on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes written over the last ...

Latin America has been a place of radical political inspiration providing an alternative to the neoliberal model. Religion without Redemption looks...

No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organi...

The first dictionary to gather, delineate and make accessible the literary, artistic, critical, cultural and political practices that we associate ...

Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ''Jerusalem'', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. Hi...

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, th...

Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through a...

The global age is distinguished by disobedience, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the anti-G8 and anti-WTO ...

How did maps of the distant reaches of the world communicate to the public in an era when exploration of those territories was still ongoing and kn...

This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of...

A critical and multidisciplinary analysis of role of violence and death under Turkish democracy This book makes a strong case that Turkey''s regime...

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people? In The Virtues of Violence, Kevin Duo...