History of Western Philosophy

Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a...

This book examines the biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It seeks to further understand the author of the Historia Augusta alongside ...

The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that...

When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche’s critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany’s plac...

One of the most important French philosophers working today, François Laruelle has developed an innovative and powerful repertoire of concepts acro...

Springs of Western Civilization is a comparative exploration of the Hebraic and classical traditions that form our heritage. In examining these tra...

The conversation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, that most obvious of Milton's additions to the Biblical narrative, enacts the pair's inquiry int...

What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought? This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this ...

What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought? This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this ...

Walter Benjamin and the Post-Kantian Tradition engages with Benjamin as a theorist of a historical and philosophical problematic of modernity: a pr...

One of Victorian England’s most famous philosophers harbored a secret: Herbert Spencer suffered from an illness so laden with stigma that he feared...

In this important new book, Daniel Loick argues that in order to become sensible to the violence imbedded in our political routines, philosophy mus...

The significant changes that have dominated the social and the scientific world over the last thirty years have brought about upheavals and critica...

Ward’s book focuses on the work of the Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller; prominent member of the Budapest School, a group of students who studied...

This book features a highly significant discussion between Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis. Recorded for Radio France (Culture) in 1985, it ...

Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting, scrutinizing, and deploying B...

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift ...

This book features a highly significant discussion between Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis. Recorded for Radio France (Culture) in 1985, it ...