History of Western Philosophy

One of a pair of books selected from Stanley Rosens career as a philosopher, scholar, and teacher over the last half of a century. They represent b...

Socrates famously claimed that he knew nothing, and that wisdom consisted in awareness of ones ignorance. In Ignorance, Irony and Knowledge in Plat...

We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at...

In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blacknessfrom the Atlantic slave trade to...

International interest in the work of Avital Ronell has expressed itself in reviews, articles, essays, and dissertations. For Fighting Theory, psyc...

The Victorian period in Britain was an age of reform. It is therefore not surprising that two of the era's most eminent intellects described themse...

Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion develops a distinctive approach to pragmatist philosophy...

This book contains selected papers presented at the international conference titled 'In Search of Creative Commons: Crisis, Catastrophe, and Respon...

Materialism - the view that facts are dependent upon or reducible to physical processes - is one of the most long-standing and controversial of all...

This book develops a moral Marxist aesthetics based on the work of Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann and Herbert Marcuse, and grounded in the aesthetic...

This book provides a comprehensive study of major issues of moral psychology throughout history, from ancient to early modern philosophy. The volum...

This book focuses on two central topics that could help us answer how Plato conceives of the physical world and its relationship to Forms. The firs...

Though Aristotle is universally acknowledged as having a mighty influence on the history of philosophy, large parts of his writings are often thoug...

This book challenges two of the most commonly held assumptions about Samuel Beckett. First, that he belongs exclusively to a literary tradition and...