History of Western Philosophy

Dans les années 1760, latelier du baron dHolbach est, avec Ferney au temps de Voltaire, le principal lieu de diffusion des idées hétérodoxes qui pe...

Marian Hobsons work has made a seminal contribution to our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and of Diderot and Rousseau in particular. ...

While complex global problems cry out for solutions devised with moral sensitivity and responsibility, a more common mentality tends to prevail, on...

In Living Chinese Philosophy, Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology (the scienc...

This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to Pliny the Younger's Epistulae for intermediate and advanced Latin students, with the grammati...

This is an original and accessible introduction to the modern idea of history and its value, and an indispensable companion to the study of history...

In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democra...

In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of...

This is the first book dedicated to Leonardo da Vincis commission for The Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo completed fewer than twenty paintings in hi...

Hegel's Philosophy of Nature constitutes the second part of his mature philosophical system presented in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sci...

This volume offers a detailed interpretation of Platos texts and Platonic philosophy in its various forms and shapes as a living force in the histo...

Thought experiments by ancient philosophers are often open to debate: in what sense did their reasoning really concern thought experimentation? For...

This author-meets-critics volume about Robert Pasnaus After Certainty treats the history of epistemology, from Aristotle to the present. Pasnau pre...

The benefits of the digital age are huge. Our lives have been transformed, both in the developed and the undeveloped world. However, this transform...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entir...

Kant held the moral law to be an objective imperative, an entity in its own right. It carries with it prescriptive force, in parallel to other prin...

The book is a manifesto-like essay aiming to redress some globally present drawbacks characterizing current research in the humanities: 1. Fragment...

Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am presents a philosophical exploration of the world of Alien, the simultaneously horrifying and though...

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

Stephen Langton, later Archbishop of Canterbury and the famous signatory of Magna Carta, was a prominent intellectual, belonging to the first gener...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsches philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offe...

In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj iek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: H...

Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afr...

'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our ex...

The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the...