History of Western Philosophy

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

This volume compiles twelve essays that reflect the surging interest in the Irish-born author Iris Murdoch as both a writer and philosopher. Beyond...

For Badiou serves both as an introduction to the influential French philosopher Alain Badious thought and as an in-depth examination of his work. R...

What is perhaps Louis Althusser''s most famous text, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, published in 1970 and very influential ever sinc...

In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confess...

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase I think, therefore I am. But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, th...

In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 an...

Fear and Trembling continues to fascinate and frustrate all who find, for many reasons, that they must struggle with it. Not only 'professional int...

Open this book and you will- learn about Machiavelli's life- know his key works- explore the dark arts of politics- assess his influence

Theodor Adornos reputation as a cultural critic has been well-established for some time, but his status as a philosopher remains unclear. In Adorno...

Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deser...

Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of ac...

Originally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, François Guizot's The History of Civilization in Europe was published to great acclaim in...

Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism ...

In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realp...

In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 an...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of ir...

Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. ...

Originally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, François Guizot's The History of Civilization in Europe was published to great acclaim in...

In late 1845 Søren Kierkegaard began a literary duel with the satiric Danish review The Corsair that had momentous effects on his life and work. Th...

In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the best-selling and most widely read p...

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become stand...