History of Western Philosophy

The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced multiple reviv...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed celebrates Sartres polyvalence with an examination of Sartrean philosophy, literature, and politics....

Plutarchs writings, for a long time treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods and authors, are now studied in their own right. T...

Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybrid...

This book is an abridged version of Feng Qis two major works on the history of philosophy, The Logical Development of Ancient Chinese Philosophy an...

Shadow Philosophy: Platos Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriousl...

If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancie...

Co-Winner of the Modern Language Associations Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, 2018.The rediscovery of the thought of Giambatti...

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pr...

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

Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos contains translations of the funeral orations...

The stereotype of Casanova as a promiscuous and unscrupulous lover has been so pervasive that generations of historians have failed to take serious...

The temptation to resort to violence runs like a thread through Albert Camus works, and can be viewed as an additional key to understanding his lit...

Rousseau a bien compris, mieux que ses contemporains peut-être, le paradoxe de la communication propre aux Lumières, prises entre le développement ...