History of ideas books

Before cars were equipped with seatbelts, people instinctively put an arm out to shield passengers from sudden stops....  Read More >>

A short history of liberalism since the 1820s, one rooted in practical politics rather than abstract theorising....  Read More >>

Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Julia Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect,...  Read More >>

Before children wore seatbelts, adults instinctively used their arms to protect them during sudden stops, often...  Read More >>

How can we understand and respond to past and present entanglements of Christianity with colonisation? What kinds...  Read More >>

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A short history of liberalism since the 1820s, one rooted in practical politics rather than abstract theorising....  Read More >>

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Les textes reunis ici, dont deux sont inedits, montrent l'apport majeur de Jean-Marie Beyssade a la connaissance...  Read More >>

Consistency is insufficient to establish the truth of a conceptual system because many different systems, perhaps...  Read More >>

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This elegant hardback pocket edition presents the incredible memoir of Henry David Thoreau - a man who left his...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together nearly 650 philosophical texts from Antiquity to the present day, on the theme of...  Read More >>

Have you ever contemplated why things in our world are as they are? Thinking about politics, philosophy or science,...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together nearly 650 philosophical texts from Antiquity to the present day, on the theme of...  Read More >>

The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences is undertaking the first comprehensive historical and critical commentary of...  Read More >>

In this philosophical treatment of play Kostas Axelos traces his thinking on the world deployed as play from Heraclitus...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy is a seven-volume reference work on the history of philosophy. This...  Read More >>

A team of leading international scholars examine Middle Ages and Renaissance philosophy from the perspective of...  Read More >>

Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics...  Read More >>

This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and...  Read More >>

Life is full of contradictions-love and loss, creation and destruction, tradition and progress. We spend our days...  Read More >>

Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy...  Read More >>

The Conundrum of Being: Wrestling with Existence in an Indifferent World You never asked to be born. Yet here you...  Read More >>

International bestseller Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth; Conspiracy) is back with a fascinating and hilarious look...  Read More >>