History of Ideas

In A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser, Panagiotis Sotiris undertakes a reading of the work of the French philosopher centered upon hi...

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary...

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary...

From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (16231662) is best known in t...

'Witty and accessible' ANGELA SAINI'A vital piece of work' ROMA AGRAWAL'Stunning' DAN HICKSKnowledge is power. Time is money. Justice is blind.West...

Peut-on se contenter dun triomphalisme des Lumières pour penser nos liens sociaux aujourdhui? Ne faut-il pas réfléchir sur un art dhériter qui régl...

What was the Scottish Enlightenment? Long since ignored or sidelined, it is now a controversial topic damned by some as a conservative movement ob...

Après avoir donné prise à des considérations équivoques, lidée du progrès gagne son entière légitimité au XIXe siècle. Comment sest faite la transi...

LOrient joue un rôle essentiel dans lhistoire urbaine de Vienne au dix-huitième siècle: cest une route commerciale, une communauté marchande et un ...

The place of religion in the Enlightenment has been keenly debated for many years. Research has tended, however, to examine the interplay of religi...

An interdisciplinary reference source of the critical, cultural and political practices associated with modernismMuch of the literary and cultural ...

Neo-liberalism is one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War, yet little research has been devoted to the movement of ideas ...

The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, or Battle of the Books as it was known in England, famously pitted the Ancients on the one side and the M...

Although discredited by seventeenth-century scientists, temperament theory which attributed human moods to the interaction of four distinct bodily...

Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil as a conceptual problem ...

Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the thought of the g...