History of Western Philosophy

David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains ...

What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. Th...

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one ...

Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLandas revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and...

Published in 1797, the Doctrine of Right is Kant's most significant contribution to legal and political philosophy. As the first part of the Metaph...

Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appea...

José L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of r...

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, pa...

Sôphrosunê (self-discipline) is the often-forgotten sibling of justice, wisdom, courage, and piety in discussions of canonical Greek virtues. Chris...

This volume brings together seven essays that deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. Best described as pheno...

This book re-examines the Nobel laureate's post-war prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close...

Carmen Sylva, when she discovered that I was writing, instead of laughing at me and being ironical about my modest attempts at literature, encourag...

Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form...

Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the...

Epictetus (c. 50-c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He believed that philosophy should be a way of life and not just a theoretical study. In...

Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and ...

This book argues that Kants theory of international relations should be interpreted as an attempt to apply the principles of reason to history in g...

The forces of freedom are challenged everywhere by a newly energized spirit of tyranny, whether it is Jihadist terrorism, Putin's imperialism, or t...

A rigorous investigation of Socrates' early education, pinpointing the thought that led Socrates to turn from natural science to the study of moral...

Slavoj ieks critical engagement with Christian theology goes much further than his seminal The Fragile Absolute (2000), or his The Puppet and the D...

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we...

Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to the next. Plenty of these ...