History of ideas books

Trois textes réunis pour présenter la philosophie de Nietzsche et ses exigences de lecture, en donnant toute sa...  Read More >>

This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau....  Read More >>

Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness studies the concept...  Read More >>

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You're Doing it Wrong is an outrageous tour through the centuries of bonkers and bad advice handed down and foisted...  Read More >>

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant’s practical philosophy was forma­listic, focusing almost...  Read More >>

Despite being a major theorist of post-war Marxism in the German-speaking world, Leo Kofler remains largely unknown...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity in the Indian Age is a...  Read More >>

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In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical...  Read More >>

Catherine Evtuhov resurrects the brilliant and contradictory currents of turn-of-the-century Kiev, Moscow, and St....  Read More >>

Nocturnes is a contrubution to dramatic poetry that explores grief in the dreamworld in search of consolation.....  Read More >>

This volume presents a translation of a debate between two major theorists: sociologist Luc Boltanski and political...  Read More >>

This book provides a comparative analysis of cosmopolitan (esoteric) religious movements, such as Theosophy, Groupe...  Read More >>

Der Autor stellt die Theorien von Karl Popper dar und unterzieht diese selbst einer kritischen Prüfung. Bei der...  Read More >>

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

Exception to the law as an attribute of sovereignty: this is how political modernity would have been invented, putting...  Read More >>

Dirk Westerkamp untersucht erstmals die Sprachphilosophie des Deutschen Idealismus und führt den Nachweis der bleibenden...  Read More >>

Blaise Pascal, The precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist. The...  Read More >>

A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed...  Read More >>

Each chapter focuses on a different bodily fluid – saliva, blood, urine, milk, sweat, semen – to investigate how...  Read More >>

Exception to the law as an attribute of sovereignty: this is how political modernity would have been invented, putting...  Read More >>

First published in 1956, Frederick Wilhelmsen's Man's Knowledge of Reality remains a classic study in Thomistic...  Read More >>

Popper kritisiert in seinem Buch ""Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde"" geschlossene totalitäre Systeme. Der...  Read More >>

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