Western Philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which t...

Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumat...

In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, ...

This book provides an account of the development of ideas about nature from the Early German Romantics into the philosophies of nature of Schelling...

Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher. His work excited intense controversy among his contemporaries and continues to do ...

This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemo...

A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about [Nietzsche] in the past few years.Gavin Jacobson,...

The Discourse on the Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences offers a concise presentation and defense of René Descartes' m...

For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only...

Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose of the essayist...

Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was written late in his career. It presents a theory of 'radical evil' in human nature, touche...

In this wide-ranging and authoritative volume, leading scholars engage with the philosophy and writings of Wilhelm Dilthey, a key figure in ninetee...

This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil...

This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil...

How did Nietzsche the philosopher come into being? The Nietzsche known today did not develop 'naturally', through the gradual maturation of some in...

An interdisciplanary collection of essays focused on Kant's work on the concept of community. The concept of community plays a central role in Kan...

Offers a new interpretation of Butler's theology and suggests that exploration of his methods may contribute to modern thinking about ethics, langu...

What does it take to be subjectively free in an objectively rational social order? In this book Andreja Novakovic offers a fresh interpretation of ...

Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophi...

The long eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of ethics, when our moral relations to God, ourselves and others were minutely exami...

The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (17901870) brings ...