Western Philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

This collection highlights the importance of Kants shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrast...

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

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida''s first r...

With a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shro...

An advanced introduction for students and a re-orientation for Nietzsche scholars and intellectual historians on the development of his thought and...

John Locke's foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Loc...

John Locke's foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke...

Ludwig Feuerbach's departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened a door for generations of radical philosophical thinkers, foremost a...

Nietzsche's Unfashionable Observations often translated as the Untimely Meditations or Thoughts Out of Season is made up of four independent essa...

Nietzsche''s Unfashionable Observations - often translated as the Untimely Meditations or Thoughts Out of Season - is made up of four independent e...

The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with poss...

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Modernity rul...

One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of We...

Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his free...

In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models ...

Walters provides commentary on Diderot''s translation of Shaftesbury''s An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and not...

Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case fo...