History of Western Philosophy

While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while t...

Philosophical optimists maintain that the world is optimally arranged and is accordingly valuable, and that the existence of human beings is prefer...

For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Sho...

In his latest collection of essays, author, physician and humanist philosopher Raymond Tallis meditates on the complexity of human consciousness, f...

Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno c...

The 3rd edition of this masterfully edited anthology incorporates important contributions of women and minority thinkers into the canon of the mode...

By the time Martin Heidegger passed away on May 26th, 1976, he had become the most important and controversial philosopher of his age. While many o...

Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case fo...

The most widely read anthology for the study of modern philosophy, this volume provides key works of philosophers and other leading thinkers of the...

Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche contains two works, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) and The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), ...

The rehabilitation of Confucian tradition raised new challenges to Chinese feminist thinkers. Can a Confucian ideal of reciprocity help women reali...