History of Western Philosophy

In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models ...

This is a superb new translation that is remarkably accurate to Plato's very difficult Greek, yet clear and highly readable. The notes are more hel...

Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his ...

The journey of thousand miles begins with a single step - Laozi In Legacy: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Minds Phil takes the philosophical approa...

In response to this current political and economic climate, Teaching Marx & Critical Theory in the 21st Century defends the importance, and dif...

Through an examination of Christian interaction with other religions, Paul S. Chung constructs a theology of comparative religion. In the course of...

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000 year old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we...

In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of his life. Th...

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we...

The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform pol...

The first English translation of Francois Hemsterhuis' widely influential late dialogues, which came to be entwined in contemporary philosophical d...

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not j...

Walters provides commentary on Diderot''s translation of Shaftesbury''s An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and not...

'Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself' WittgensteinWittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the ...

In Kants Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension, Rudolf A. Makkreel offers a new interpretation of Immanuel Kants theory of judgment th...

Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by John Marenbon, one of the leading scholars of medieval philoso...