History of Western Philosophy

Explains and contextualises the key concepts in Jean-Luc Nancy's entire body of work This dictionary equips students and scholars alike with insigh...

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the...

This concise anthology of primary sources designed for use in an ancient philosophy survey ranges from the Presocratics to Plato, Aristotle, the He...

John P. Doyle's groundbreaking studies of Francisco Suarez's imposing yet highly original system of scholasticism have helped to make the Jesuit's ...

The first monograph entirely devoted to the Epicurean doctrine of minimal parts. The Epicurean doctrine of minimal parts (ta elachista) is a crucia...

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding ...

Augustine's Confessions is a masterpiece of world literature. Written by Augustine in his forties, at the height of his philosophical and rhetorica...

'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of...

'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utili...

In Leviathan, Hobbes created the idea of a social contract and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of...

For his insistence on the amoral character of successful government, Machiavelli remains a contentious figure. Often reviled as a teacher of evil, ...

The second edition of a unique introductory text, offering an account of the logical tradition in philosophy and its influence on contemporary scie...

This translation offers a fresh and vital encounter with Thomas Mores Utopia for a twenty-first century audience.Elizabeth McCutcheon, Utopian Stud...

This is a step-by-step guide to Kant's first work on moral philosophy. Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is considered a standard text...

A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works-- Euthyphro , Apology , Crito , Meno , Phaedo , Symposium , Phaedrus , and Republic --unabr...

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, rough...

This title shows how Deleuze's philosophy is shaking up research in the humanities and social sciences. French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-199...

This is a critical introduction to Giorgio Agamben's political thought that highlights its affirmative dimension. Rapidly becoming one of the most ...

What is the meaning of life? How should I live? Is there any purpose to the universe? Generations have turned to the great German philosopher Arthu...

Kierkegaard's writings are severely complicated and readers often do not know what to make of them given the array of genres he deploys. He is at o...

Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrates has become the standard sourcebook in Presocratic philosophy. It prov...

Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and ...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the l...

Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, mystic and political activist who died in England in 1943 at the age of thirty-four, belongs to a select...