History of Western Philosophy

Although Pseudo-Dionysius was, after Aristotle, the author whom Thomas Aquinas quoted most frequently, surprisingly little attention has been paid ...

Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by John Marenbon, one of the leading scholars of medieval philoso...

The book is a much-expanded version of the Kuang-Yi Liu Lectures in Chinese Philosophy the author delivered in Taiwan in December 2022. The book br...

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Greats (c. 11931280) notion of virtus formativa, a shaping force responsible for...

Marsilio Ficino (14331499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficinos comment...

A history of philosophy in twelve thinkersThe whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is a...

Are we moving inevitably into an irreversible era of postnationalism and globalism? In Political Philosophy and the Republican Future, Gregory Bruc...

Herbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times. This summary of Hegel's sy...

Imperial Plato presents new translations of three introductions to Platos thought from the second half of the second century CE: the Introduction t...

This volume offers a collective study of the work of P. F. Strawson (1919-2006) and an exploration of its relevance for current philosophical debat...

Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussi...

A. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marxs theory of commodity fetishismfrom A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser, É. Balibar, Slavoj i...

Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the titl...

How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus Against the Gnostics. For the Gnost...

Much of contemporary philosophy, especially in the analytical tradition, regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, me...

The term dunamis (potentiality) entered into the philosophical vocabulary with Plato, but it was with Aristotle that it acquired, together with ene...

Fragen des Kulturtransfers und insbesondere des ideologischen Einflusses auf Übersetzungen bilden das Untersuchungsfeld des vorliegenden Buches. Es...

This series in the field of classics grew out of Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking whose goal is to collect, edit, and comment on ...

This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Dr. Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelli...

Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern wo...

'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet th...

Think of the Renaissance and you might only picture the work of fine artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Van Eyck. Or architecture ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the modern period. He offered a wealth of origin...

Plotinus Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as a...

Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlighte...

This is the first modern edition of Book X of the Historia Animalium. It argues that the first five chapters are a summary, from the hand of Aristo...

Ennead IV.4.3045 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with...

Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient...

The much-anticipated anthology on Platos TimaeusPlatos singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the...

Discovered in Egypt in 1945, the fascinating and challenging Nag Hammadi writings forever changed our understanding of early Christianity. State-of...

An exploration of everything Kant's philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest po...

This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamins and Theodor Adornos essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together,...

This collection offers an innovative and fresh interpretation of Antitrinitarian and rational dissent in the early modern world. The central themes...