History of Ideas

A practical and uplifting vision of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, from the author of Why Women Have...

What did it mean that in the world's first mass democracy only a minority ruled? Women--free and enslaved, white and Black, single and married--con...

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of disintermediat...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political ...

In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talk...

In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talk...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...

'Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... enjoy t...

An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happe...

This volume brings together essential essays by an important but neglected thinker in early twentieth-century German philosophy, Edith Landmann-Kal...

For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable ref...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypa...

Peter Iver Kaufman explores how various Christian leaders throughout history have used forms of political theology to merge the romance of conquest...

In 1646 in Newgate Gaol in London, a political activist, Richard Overton, penned a pamphlet that contained dangerous ideas. An Arrow Against All Ty...