History of Ideas

Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Boiss intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental...

The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history. Their core theme is the diversity of both American i...

Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of mult...

The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of soci...

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern...

Building on an analysis of the dissenting movements to have emerged since the rise of modern capitalism, Anti-Systemic Movements uncovers an intern...

In a short chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason entitled On the Typic of the Pure Practical Power of Judgment, Kant addresses a crucial prob...

Ulrich, or Huldrych, Zwingli of Zürich is the 'great unknown' of the Reformation in Europe, and yet his influence and ideas have penetrated into ev...

Ulrich, or Huldrych, Zwingli of Zürich is the 'great unknown' of the Reformation in Europe, and yet his influence and ideas have penetrated into ev...

The Book of Common Prayer stands as one of the greatest achievements of the English Reformation. Although increasingly replaced by more modern form...