Western Philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Recent decades have seen a remarkable upsurge of interest in German Idealism in the English-speaking world. However, out of the three leading think...

Recent decades have seen a remarkable upsurge of interest in German Idealism in the English-speaking world. However, out of the three leading think...

A COMPANION TO KIERKEGAARD Companions to important thinkers help readers focus on the main drift of their texts with the help of a dig into their o...

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

G. W. F. Hegel's first masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit, is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most chal...

More than two hundred years after the publication of his seminal The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer's influence is still fel...

This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian n...

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experimen...

During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philo...

The Discourse on Metaphysics is one of Leibniz´s fundamental works. Written around January 1686, it is the most accomplished systematic expression ...

Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Mora...

How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive valuesand subsequently moral, political, and social onescom...

Nietzsche is one of the most subversive thinkers of the western philosophical canon. Yet until recently, his ethics has been sidelined within Anglo...

Paul Rateau traces the genesis and development of G.W. Leibniz's treatment of the problem of evil, from his earliest writings through the Essays on...

Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is one of the landmark works in the history of moral philosophy; this volume presents a section-...