History of Western Philosophy

Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (190943) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Wei...

Dominique Janicaud claimed that every French intellectual movementfrom existentialism to psychoanalysiswas influenced by Martin Heidegger. This tra...

Throughout the twentieth century, German writers, philosophers, theologians, and historians turned to Gnosticism to make sense of the modern condit...

In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy...

In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripidess revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversi...

Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied...

An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual ...

Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied...

In Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely...

Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It cov...

Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It cov...

The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of ones own ...

CBSD Description: Evald Ilyenkov is a unique figure among the many Soviet thinkers that have recently been introduced to English-speaking readers. ...

Through a radical new reading of the Theological Political Treatise, Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the Epicurean influence on Spinoza has profou...

The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing fo...

Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecolog...

The Athens of Socrates's time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet this city put Socrate...

A collection of essays spanning thirty years of her work in Newman studies, Katherine Tillmans essays complement the many publications on Newmans t...

Kant on the Human Animal gives an account of Kants understanding of the human animal through examination of a range of published works and lecture ...

This celebratory Festschrift dedicated to Charles Kahn comprises some 23 articles by friends, former students and colleagues, many of whom first pr...

Considered a foundational text in modern philosophy, the Meditations on First Philosophy presents numerous powerful arguments that to this day infl...

At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result wa...

Over a series of elegantly written, engaging essays, the Enquiry examines the experiential and psychological sources of meaning and knowledge, the ...

The school of Greek philosopher Epicurus, which became known as the Garden, famously put great stock in happiness and pleasure. As a philosophical ...

This is an edition of what are arguably Leibnizs three most important presentations of his metaphysical system: the Discourse on Metaphysics, from ...

'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy love it!' Elif ShafakWhere are the women philosophers? The answer is r...

John Stuart Mills Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism, a moral theory stating that right actions are those that tend to pro...

In Aristotles Empiricism, Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotles natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored. She shows t...

A compendium of ruminations and reflections by thesecond-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the Stoic philosophy. It is a...

Hegel and Deleuze cannily examines the various resonances and dissonances between these two major philosophers. The collection represents the best ...

An important work in the debate between materialists and dualists, the public correspondence between Anthony Collins and Samuel Clarke provided the...

This revised edition draws on years of lecturing experience and feedback from students the result is a popular, lively and accessible book which o...