History of Western Philosophy

Plotin ist der Begründer des Neuplatonismus. Seine Interpretation des Platonismus als eines konsequenten Denkens der Transzendenz findet seit der z...

Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Kerry H. Whiteside presents the political theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), one of France's be...

Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers an...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive ...

The book focuses on Kants philosophy of history as a part of his practical philosophy. It deals with Kants interpretation of history that leads to ...

The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the double of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger ...

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

There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought. Since the work in the nineteenth century of...

The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society by maintaining that persons have a deep-se...

Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray famously insisted on their philosophical differences, and this mutual insistence has largely guided the recept...

Leibniz published the Dissertation on Combinatorial Art in 1666. This book contains the seeds of Leibniz's mature thought, as well as many of the m...

This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity. While Plotinus stands at the beginning of its philo...

Kant's arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. M...

Giorgio Agamben's work develops a new philosophy of life. On its horizon lies the conviction that our form of life can become the guiding and unify...

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World considers the psychotropic plants used in the ancient world and ancient attitudes towards intoxic...