History of ideas books

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A primer on political theory from bestselling author and host of Talking Politics David Runciman.  Read More >>

Since the seventeenth century, the idea that there are 'laws' of nature that govern our world has been attended...  Read More >>

While notions of human race have created some of the most profound and destructive divisions in modern western societies,...  Read More >>

Encourages students to consider not only seminal writings by historical philosophers, but also the philosophers’...  Read More >>

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How can we understand Cioran's strange passion for failure, his fascination with the apotheosis of disaster, his...  Read More >>

This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices...  Read More >>

The Triumph of Good explains how the Cain-Abel paradigm is the key to understanding how the Divine Providence advances...  Read More >>

The German sensibility-oriented art theory of the eighteenth century had its beginnings in rationalism.This book...  Read More >>

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This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the...  Read More >>

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"The way we experience, investigate and interact with reality changes drastically in the course of history. Do such...  Read More >>

""This is a series of short summaries and brief overviews of many main ideas within general semantics, all couched...  Read More >>

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas's core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric...  Read More >>

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his...  Read More >>

In dialogue with Derrida, formulates a new philosophical problem - a complex aporia that underlines the topic of...  Read More >>

The Essential Henry David Thoreau Book Collection Contains four of Thoreau's best works: Walden, Or Life...  Read More >>

Marking the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pontus de Tyard (1521), a colloquium was held in Bissy-sur-Fley....  Read More >>

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of the treatise written by Aristotle, of which Ethics is the first...  Read More >>

The present book contextualizes Du Châtelet’s contribution to the philosophy of her time. To call an epoch an Époque...  Read More >>

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Stoicism has had a diverse reception in German philosophy. This is the first interpretive study of shared themes...  Read More >>

Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the...  Read More >>