History of ideas books

Gustav Landauer: Skepsis und Mystik. Versuche im Anschluss an Mauthners Sprachkritik Erstdruck: Berlin, Egon Fleischel...  Read More >>

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This book provides an account of the unity of Immanuel Kant’s early metaphysics, including the moment he invents...  Read More >>

De l'habitude / par Félix Ravaisson Date de l'édition originale: 1838 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique...  Read More >>

The volume is a collection of historical and systematic essays on the concept of a negative anthropology. The systemic...  Read More >>

This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of...  Read More >>

Marx meets Durkheim in an effort to reconstitute both sociology and psychoanalysis.  Read More >>

This book looks to fill the ‘blue hole’ in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation,...  Read More >>

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.  Read More >>

This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides’s...  Read More >>

This volume explores ""schematic narrative templates,"" a concept by James V. Wertsch, examining how these templates...  Read More >>

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This volume explores ""schematic narrative templates,"" a concept by James V. Wertsch, examining how these templates...  Read More >>

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism,...  Read More >>

In this book, conversion means abandoning a world view and starting over. Using this definition of conversion, the...  Read More >>

Castro-Gómez argues that in the colonial periphery of the Spanish Americas, Enlightenment constituted not only the...  Read More >>

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all...  Read More >>

Who's worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child? Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl is...  Read More >>

The present case studies on early modern travelers, dispersed often by unintended consequences of war, curiosity,...  Read More >>

How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores...  Read More >>

Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilisation. This book is a breathtaking...  Read More >>

""...there is nothing elementary about O'Grady's primer. She pulls off the feat of writing a reliable and accessible...  Read More >>

""...there is nothing elementary about O'Grady's primer. She pulls off the feat of writing a reliable and accessible...  Read More >>

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