History of Ideas

Understanding contemporary global politics by connecting them to the meditations of a classical Greek philosopher may seem farfetched and counterin...

For better or worse, Rorty has shaped the trajectory of academic philosophy. A decade after his passing, his legacy is ever present, especially in ...

Ours is a post-political society that cannot imagine radical change; a one dimensional society in which politics is reduced to economic concerns. P...

Since the birth of modernity, Western thought has been at war with clichés. The association of philosophical and cultural integrity with originalit...

In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition ...

During the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Engl...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociol...

In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non...

For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad,...

For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad,...

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

This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experiences. It traces the evolution of those theories and ho...

In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created ...

Technology is and has always been the subject of critical debate. This wide-ranging, engaging book examines the ideas of Anglo-Canadian theorists w...

Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hell...

A haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on ...

It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty a...

Why is love taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to...