History of Western Philosophy

This collection of essays surveys a wide range of methods of Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to Middle and Neoplato...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the roots of his monumental Tractatus are explored in t...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375300 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the Peripatos or Lyceum, and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor...

Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forw...

While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often...

This volume collects some of the best writings on Spinozas philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Spinozas theory of the types of...

Pragmatism's founder, C. S. Peirce, initially envisioned philosophy as a means of rationally validating our beliefs and actions. Afterward, William...

The early modern period in philosophy - encompassing the 16th to the 18th centuries - reflects a time of social and intellectual turmoil. The P...

What does life truly mean? Who do I want to become? And how do I get there? These are some of life's biggest questions that are hard to think thr...

Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that...

Why does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema to address specific philosophical problems? Deleuze turns to the cinema precisely because its formal...

The idea of national philosophy carries in it a strange contradiction. We talk about 'German philosophy' or 'American philosophy'. But philosophy h...

With a new introduction placing Plato's great work at the heart of ancient concepts of human organization and justice, this new edition of The Repu...

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in acc...

Wes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel's philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives...

Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic SpinozaMachiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and p...