History of Western Philosophy

In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had such tremendous influence ...

In 1967, C.L.R. James, the much-celebrated Afro-Trinidadian Marxist, stated that he knew of no figure in history who had such tremendous influence ...

This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Löwy, a work of remarkable richness. ...

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this w...

A thoroughgoing examination of Maximus Confessors singular theological vision through the prism of Christs cosmic and historical Incarnation. Jorda...

Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposit...

Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new e...

This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteen...

In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discoveredthe letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have b...

*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this delic...

The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 188687. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the vol...

John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pra...

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancien...

The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen...

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built m...

This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one o...

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

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an i...

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. Thi...