History of ideas books

The essays in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought,...  Read More >>

Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic treatment of Locke’s theory of probable assent. It shows how the theory applies...  Read More >>

This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein...  Read More >>

This book explores the impact of the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein’s thought. The contributors generate...  Read More >>

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central...  Read More >>

Taking inspiration from thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig, this...  Read More >>

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Topics covered include queer worldmaking among Orthodox Jewish gays and lesbians in Israel; the religious lives...  Read More >>

Is the self or subject discontinuous across technological platforms? Do technological developments increase inequality...  Read More >>

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Discover with me the roots of our modern thinking! ""The German Idealists - Is Patriotism Still Contemporary?""...  Read More >>

Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. His latest book is a collection of some of the more provocative...  Read More >>

Those who look for the traces of a new universalism of our time are themselves its critical builders. The conversations...  Read More >>

The Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and the Ḥatäta Wäldä Ḥəywät are enigmatic and controversial works set in 17th-century Ethiopia....  Read More >>

For a long time, much of mainstream philosophy trivialized gestures, representing them as a kind of pseudo-language....  Read More >>

This book promotes entirely new insights into women’s contributions to the history of philosophy and boasts papers...  Read More >>

New in Penguin paperback, Making Numbers Count offers quick, simple and practical hacks to understand and communicate...  Read More >>

A luminously original exploration of the relationship between appetite, diet, desire and oppression by an award-winning...  Read More >>

Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume...  Read More >>

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic...  Read More >>

This book outlines the trajectory from Paul Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil to his writings devoted to psychoanalysis,...  Read More >>

Walter Benjamin was praised as the ""unrivaled master"" (Adorno) of the essay, but scholars have largely neglected...  Read More >>