Western Philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Originally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, François Guizot's The History of Civilization in Europe was published to great acclaim in...

In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 an...

Originally given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, François Guizot's The History of Civilization in Europe was published to great acclaim in...

In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the best-selling and most widely read p...

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become stand...

Heiberg's Perseus represents a landmark in Golden Age culture. It was published in June 1837 as part of his long-standing campaign to convert his c...

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsia...

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated ra...

Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of the...

Max Stirners The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld...

Martin Heidegger's writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult but show an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenome...

Philosopher John Dewey called Ralph Waldo Emerson the one citizen of the New World fit to have his name uttered in the same breath with that of Pla...

The influence of Ibn 'Arabi, the 12th century Andalusian mystic philosopher extended beyond the Muslim world from Spain, to China, to Indonesia. In...

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offer...

Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers o...

Berkeley is popular in the philosophical tradition as the philosopher who denied the existence of matter in favour of spiritual substance. His esse...

Understanding Kants pre-critical philosophy is central to appreciating his three critiques. Overshadowed by the critiques, the early work stands on...

The philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel is certainly one of the richest and most complex philosophical endeavours in the history of Western thought. Hegelia...