History of Western Philosophy

Francois Hemsterhuis (1721-1790) was the most significant Dutch philosopher after Spinoza. Daniel Whistler argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matt...

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...

In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent pr...

In a sustained study of the Sophist and Statesman, this book explores the use of paradigm, logos, and myth. Plato introduces in these dialogues the...

In The Metaphysics of the Material World, Tad M. Schmaltz traces a particular development of the metaphysics of the material world in early modern ...

When French theory went global in the late twentieth century its visual wing was understandably built on the work of its best-known thinkers, notab...

A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of ...

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that,...

A careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia and a demonstration of a Socratic education It is well known that Socrates was executed by ...

The concept of self-motion is not only fundamental in Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover and in ancient and medieval theories of nature, but ...

Although philosophical semantics has become both a discipline in its own right and the source of the analytic techniques used in the rest of philos...

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucaults Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life What migh...

In his monumental study of Philo of Alexandria (1947), Harry A. Wolfson argued that the philosophical method developed by Philo, in which Greek phi...

Richard Rorty was a seminal figure in philosophy, transforming the discipline during the last quarter of the 20th century and setting it on a new p...

Acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek in...

The Long Middle Ages indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period. The author tries to und...

Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power. This study examines Roman discour...

Working from newly available texts in Heidegger's Complete Works, Krzysztof Ziarek presents Heidegger at his most radical and demonstrates how the ...

Ayres examines the relationship between early Christian thought and Hellenic philosophical traditions by considering the extent to which fundamenta...