History of Western Philosophy

A Platonic evangelists lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platon...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociol...

When for the first time I saw the evening rise with its red and gray softened in the Naples sky, Nietzsche wrote, it was like a shiver, as though p...

William Ockham intended the Dialogus to be a thorough examination (a summa) of the doctrinal and political issues at stake during what in fact beca...

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, a...

From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happie...

This book examines in detail the strategic relevance of the Arthashastra. Attributed to the fourth century B.C., this classical treatise on state a...

Giambattista Vico (16681744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the principles of human...

By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one ha...

In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created ...

In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology, Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream-poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to e...

René Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii ('Rules for the Direction of the Understanding') is his earliest surviving philosophical treatise, ...

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic ...

An important contribution to the burgeoning field of the ethics of recognition, this book examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept ...

Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sens...

Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data, games, and more traditional med...

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics ...

In his most important work, Max  Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total app...

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, availa...

Heidegger, History and the Holocaust is an important contribution to the longstanding debate concerning Martin Heidegger's association with Nationa...

This title introduces students to the context, key themes and influence of Schopenhauer's major work, a key text in 19th Century German thought. Sc...

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietz...

This title presents an introduction to the influence of Kant's though on theology and the response from theology. The philosophy of Kant is widely ...