History of Western Philosophy

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...

Maria W. Stewart was a trailblazing political philosopher and social reformer, who migrated from the Connecticut of her birth, south to Baltimore a...

By exploring the influence of the Andalusian philosopher, Averroes or Ibn Rushd (1126-1198 AD) on European philosophy from the 13th to the 18th cen...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...

Wie ist es möglich, dass im Erklingen einer komplexen Folge von Lauten ein Sinn offenbar wird, der mit der lautenden Gestalt selbst scheinbar wenig...

The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme provides a historical-logical analysis of Aristotles rhetorical syllogism, the enthymeme, through its Medieval...

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our...

Exploring Aristotles concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the...

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts i...

How does ideology function and, more importantly, how can we resist ideological subjugation? Egidijus Mardosas answers these questions by applyi...