History of Western Philosophy

Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay On Anger (De I...

In After Parmenides, Tom Rockmore takes us all the way back to the beginning of philosophy when Parmenides asserted that thought and being are one:...

A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) h...

One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of We...

The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy....

The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks amon...

No philosophical idea, no matter how small, can live alone. Ideas always gain their force, power, and life from their surroundings - their ecosyste...

This is a step-by-step guide to Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge. In the first volume of his History of Sexuality, T...

This is the essential toolkit for anyone approaching Deleuze for the first time. Difference and Repetition (first published in 1968) is widely acce...

Moore and Raymond's Charmides is very impressive. The translation is excellent, and the Introduction and notes guide the reader into thorny problem...

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something...

Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his free...

The Times Biography of the Year Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 ''Outstanding.'' The Sunday Times ''A revelation.'' Guardian ...

The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and translation that made earlie...

An excellent new translation and commentary. It will serve newcomers as an informative, accessible introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics and to ma...

The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and translation that made earlie...

Margaret Cavendish's philosophical work is at last taking its rightful place in the history of seventeenth-century thought, but her writings are so...

Margaret Cavendish's philosophical work is at last taking its rightful place in the history of seventeenth-century thought, but her writings are so...

This edition includes new translations of Aristotle's Generation of Animals along with History of Animals I and Parts of Animals I. The translation...

This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (18331911), a philosopher and historian of culture w...

Who is AYN RAND? Few 20th century intellectuals have been as influential and controversial as the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. Her thinkin...

In an island kingdom, Don Armando dreams of a dragon-slaying adventure like heroes used to perform. And in a laboratory in a gleaming city, scienti...

Puzzled?! seamlessly fuses two traditional approaches to the study of philosophy at the introductory level. It is thematic, examining fundamental i...