History of Western Philosophy

In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Platos most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should ...

Heiberg's Perseus represents a landmark in Golden Age culture. It was published in June 1837 as part of his long-standing campaign to convert his c...

The first book to address the historical failures of philosophyand what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of...

An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the wor...

There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics...

An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertainin...

This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophons eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays ...

In this volume, a distinguished group of philosophers offers new insight into Platonic studies. Combining cutting-edge research with innovative ana...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entir...

Denis McManus presents a new interpretation of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and of the world we inhabit. Heidegger's 'fundam...

Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published on...

This anthology provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives. It can b...

The thirteenth-century logician Lambert of Auxerre was well known for his Summa Lamberti, or simply Logica, written in the mid-1250s, which became ...

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsia...

The history of logic and its development during the medieval period. Radulphus Britos Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis is a major wor...

The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj iek would argue that what disparity and negati...

Alan Vincelette traces the thought of twenty one key Catholic philosophers of the Twentieth Century and their contributions to the philosophical mo...

Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age, whose title is inspired by Charles Taylor's magisterial A Secular Age, offers a host of expert analyses of t...

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated ra...

Kierkegaard has undoubtedly been an influence on phenomenological thinking, but he has rarely if ever been read as a phenomenologist himself. Recen...

In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been comp...

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philoso...

Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more tho...

Explore 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from the ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, with this ultimate guide''s stunning and simple approach to ...

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P. M. S. Hacker's papers on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes written over the last ...