History of Western Philosophy

For fifteen years, after his first visit to the country in1876, Nietzsche was repeatedly and irresistibly drawn back to Italy''s climate and lifest...

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of scholarly interest in the work of Johann Georg Hamann (17301788), across disciplines. New translations ...

'Machiavellian' can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself is far more complex than this cliche. A high-ranking Flore...

Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all. 'I am like no one else in the whole world ...' Thus begi...

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration. . . the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant (1724...

The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised...

This book offers the first extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume. Jeffrey Bell argues that Deleuze's early work ...

Features 10 engaging and original essays reveals that Spinoza is the interdisciplinary thinker for our times. What did Spinoza ever do for us? Disc...

The work of Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingr...

In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the...

Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fasci...

Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fasci...

This book is not merely a study of Shakespeares debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and rel...

In 1933 the crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner, himself a practicing lawyer, unleashed the character Perry Mason in the novel The Case of the Velvet...

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to m...

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to m...

All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of ...

The concept of the universal was born in the lands we now call Europe, yet it is precisely the universal that is Europe's undoing. All European pol...

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, acco...

Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern soc...

In God as Reason: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Vittorio Hösle presents a systematic exploration of the relation between theology and philosoph...

This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Dr. Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelli...

The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth centur...

The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth centur...