History of Western Philosophy

French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with politica...

For several years after 1968, Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers in the world. He became the face of Frankfurt School Critical...

Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires peo...

A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy ...

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Uto...

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Uto...

Why philosophy was politics by other means for Rome's greatest statesmanIn the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's d...

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time. A pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, his work is foundational ...

This book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy must be developed systematically with its problems an...

This book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy must be developed systematically with its problems an...

Called the most important critic of his time by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has ass...

With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Eur...

In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His letters from t...

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry, and he even described the Tractatus as p...

Dieses Buch versammelt neuere Forschungsbeiträge zur rechtlichen Diskussion um die Gleichstellung der Frau im 18. Jahrhundert.

Pre-modern philosophy means the line of reflection that started with Plato andvAristotle, passed through Augustine and Boethius, and reached its ac...

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was...

Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers an...

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that C...

In Pragmatisms Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological de...

The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophons masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows tha...

To what extent was Machiavelli a Machiavellian? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of powe...