History of ideas books

A fascinating and important history of meritocracy, and a Times book of the year Meritocracy- the idea that people...  Read More >>

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Reading The Phenomenology of Spirit through a linguistic lens, Jeffrey Reid provides an original commentary on Hegel’s...  Read More >>

It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the...  Read More >>

Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically...  Read More >>

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This book explores the many facets of naturalism in social philosophy, investigating the consequences of concepts...  Read More >>

Sam Harris, a previously unknown neuroscientist, single-handedly generated the New Atheism with his best-selling...  Read More >>

The only history of Gresham College based upon original archival research that illustrates both the substantial...  Read More >>

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Kant's critical philosophy was the reaction over the one sided (as Kant says) thinking of the rationalists and empiricists...  Read More >>

Ernst Mach: Erkenntnis und Irrtum. Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung Lesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-Schrift...  Read More >>

We are free spiritual beings. That is our eternal reality. For Ruth Huber, 'Stranded Angels' are all those human...  Read More >>

"After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the ""death of ideology,"" ideological divides and clashes have reemerged...  Read More >>

"After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the ""death of ideology,"" ideological divides and clashes have reemerged...  Read More >>

Jean Bodin's writing has profoundly marked European thought, particularly in the legal domain. From analyses of...  Read More >>

Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies....  Read More >>

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

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Rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. This work demonstrates...  Read More >>

This book examines the Jungian imperative that the Third must become the Fourth through the lens of Carl Jung’s...  Read More >>

An English translation of one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, which raises issues...  Read More >>

Published in January of 1776, Thomas Paine's fiery defense for independence came at just the right moment to turn...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledge  Read More >>