History of Western Philosophy

Called the most important critic of his time by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has ass...

With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Eur...

In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His letters from t...

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry, and he even described the Tractatus as p...

Dieses Buch versammelt neuere Forschungsbeiträge zur rechtlichen Diskussion um die Gleichstellung der Frau im 18. Jahrhundert.

Pre-modern philosophy means the line of reflection that started with Plato andvAristotle, passed through Augustine and Boethius, and reached its ac...

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was...

Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers an...

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that C...

In Pragmatisms Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological de...

The Socratic Way of Life is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophons masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows tha...

To what extent was Machiavelli a Machiavellian? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of powe...

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...