History of Western Philosophy

George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages...

Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary...

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was th...

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was th...

The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as the lingu...

In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, ...

This book interprets the typical Chinese concepts of fengjian (feudalism) and jingji (economy) by reviewing the mistranslation and mismatching of c...

In Kants Struggle for Autonomy: On the Structure of Practical Reason, Raef Zreik presents an original synoptic view of Kants practical philosophy, ...

Oliver Keenan brings the medieval philosophy of Thomas Aquinas to life.Thomas Aquinas is more than a medieval curiosity. He was a reluctant revolut...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher E...

This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contempor...

This edition includes the letters exchanged between Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company between 1890 and 1913. Open Court publi...

In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of values and goods are part of...

How ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation...

This volume analyses in depth the reception of early Greek philosophy in the Epicurean tradition and provides for the first time in scholarship a c...

Herbartism in Austrian-Hungarian philosophy is often an obligatory reference, but even if quoting Herbart and his school is frequent, reading them ...

Jeffrey Ulrichs The Shadow of an Ass addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius Metamorphoses, popula...

Classical German Philosophy has traditionally been understood as the period in the history of ideas in which the investigation of the human mind ta...

The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and rea...

Theodore Metochites Aristotelian paraphrases (c. 1312), covering all 40 books of the Stagirites extant works on natural philosophy, constitute one ...

Neoanalysis has established itself as one of the two leading schools of interpretation in Homeric studies (together with the theory of Oral Poetry)...

This volume investigates diverse aspects pertaining to the historic, social, and economic value of wine, from the prehistory through to modern time...

The Elements of Greek Philosophy (1922) is an overview of the basic principles of Ancient Greek philosophy, tracing the developments of Greek thoug...

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the...

This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heideggers history of metaphysics. This beginning begins w...

A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Bosto...

This book offers an explorative analysis of the intersections between Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault that challenges the prevailing notion of in...

From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the inst...

Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy  [Rober...