History of Western Philosophy

One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.Lucretius' poem On the Natu...

Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radica...

Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radica...

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment. Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reaso...

When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the l...

The first English-language analysis of this highly influential French philosopher's work on epistemology, poetic imagination and temporalityGaston ...

'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and...

We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to philosophize in dark times. In fact, since his death ...

This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain fo...

'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolò Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or w...

What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, th...

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and ...

'One of the most influential books about the natural world ever published' Paul Kingsnorth, Guardian'There are some who can live without wild thing...

The one book you need to master stoic philosophy!This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual li...

A Philosophical History of Love explores the importance and development of love in the Western world. Wayne Cristaudo argues that love is a materia...