History of ideas books

This volume collects and translates 10 essays by renowned Roman and legal history specialist Yan Thomas (19432008),...  Read More >>

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents. Today, liberalism...  Read More >>

This collection combines a systematic treatment of Nietzsche as a reader with case studies investigating specific...  Read More >>

Vertrauen ist aus unserem Leben nicht wegzudenken. Es stellt die Bedingung für zentrale Formen der Kooperation dar...  Read More >>

This volume provides a systematic overview of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Philosophical,...  Read More >>

A history of hermits and eremitism from antiquity to the present: Greco-Roman influences, early Christianity, hermits...  Read More >>

Nella Roma di fine Cinquecento vedono la luce le Relazioni universali di Giovanni Botero, un'opera che descrive...  Read More >>

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Based on years of investigative reporting, Wyatt Williams offers a powerful look at why we kill animals and why...  Read More >>

This book provides a rigorous analysis of Owen Flanagan’s comparative philosophy. The contributors discuss his philosophy...  Read More >>

These essays provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of Spinoza’s views of freedom, action, and motivation...  Read More >>

This volume offers responses to philosophical naturalism from the perspectives of four different yet fundamentally...  Read More >>

This book provides new interpretations of Heidegger’s philosophical method in light of 20th-century postmodernism...  Read More >>

Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life by Bo Earle...  Read More >>

The fundamental purpose of this insightful and carefully researched book is to review Aquinas's philosophical account...  Read More >>

What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? The volume discusses anthropological themes in Augustine’s...  Read More >>

Rousseau and Nietzsche presented two of the most influential critiques of modern life and much can still be learned...  Read More >>

This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve...  Read More >>

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Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which...  Read More >>

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This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender-based violence by focusing on violent...  Read More >>

From a Marxist philosophical perspective, this collection of essays investigates the maturing self-consciousness...  Read More >>