History of Ideas

A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thoughtThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduc...

If you wish to retain your image of an ''''Angel'''' as depicted on our Christmas cards, then to read this work may be ill-advised. However, if you...

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-...

Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left comprises short essays on fifty revolutionary keywords, each word being put to work on a contemporary politic...

In the last few years, populism -- of the right, left, and center varieties -- has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached i...

The Arthastra is the foundational text of Indic political thought and ancient India's most important treatise on statecraft and governance. It is t...

The historical relationship between Scotland and India is a relatively unexplored part of colonial history. This project seeks to re-examine the ...

100 Speeches that Roused the World tells the stories behind the most inspiring, rousing and memorable speeches, from ancient Greece to the present ...

Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj iek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible phil...

Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de lhomme, the last volume of Rémi Br...

A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but h...

The Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and po...

Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating and drinking. Yet the origins of the cust...

A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the first freedom, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a ...

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shape...

This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to mid...

Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors ann...

Que serait aujourd''hui une philosophie vivante, quel rapport entretiendrait-elle avec son heritage ? Ce ne peut etre qu''un rapport complexe, puis...

La situation desastreuse que vit le continent africain sur plusieurs plans est, en grande partie, la consequence de l''instabilite et de l''incoher...

In this compelling account of the origins and evolution of our secular worldview, Theo Hobson shows how Christian values continue to underpin our p...

In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspi...

What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intel...

Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidd...

Existentialism is backCarpe diem seize the day is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijack...

In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fatef...

In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact tha...

'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on Sunda...

The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Mi...

This comprehensive and authoritative statement of fundamental principles of sociological analysis integrates approaches that are often seen as mutu...

How did the value of freedom become so closely associated with the institution of the market? Why did the idea of market freedom hold so little app...

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli - set out on one of the mos...

Athanasius Kircher (160280) was acknowledged to be the most learned man of his age. By profession a Jesuit priest, he made himself an authority on ...