History of ideas books

Harmonious Technology revives Confucianism for philosophical and ethical analysis of technology and presents Confucian...  Read More >>

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) is a philosophical treatise...  Read More >>

Ancient Stoic insights combined with modern psychological research help us overcome—and even benefit from—everyday...  Read More >>

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""First published in the United States of America by A. C. McClurg & Company 1903. ""The Souls of White Folk"" originally...  Read More >>

Distinguished literary biographer Robert Zaretsky upends our thinking on Simone Weil, bringing us a woman and a...  Read More >>

This book details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology. In the light of the trend...  Read More >>

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This text explores critical perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism...  Read More >>

""A new translation of Derrida's groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses...  Read More >>

From the early 1770s on, Christian Garve (1742-1798) was considered one of the luminaries of the German Enlightenment...  Read More >>

In the late 18th century, Christian Garve's works were considered the pre-eminent example of a learned yet popular...  Read More >>

Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Associated with fatalism and naturalism, it evolved...  Read More >>

Der dritte Band der naturwissenschaftlichen, medizinischen und technischen Schriften von G. W. Leibniz umfasst die...  Read More >>

L'Avocat pour et contre, ou Resumé historique et philosophique de tout ce qu'on a écrit sur la liberté du commerce...  Read More >>

Le discernement du corps et de l'âme en six discours: pour servir à l'éclaircissement de la physique... / [signé...  Read More >>

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This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives...  Read More >>

Published anonymously, this is the 1798 first edition of Malthus' provocative work of political and economic theory....  Read More >>

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A timely attempt to re-map a critical appreciation of early twentieth-century modernism through a Nordic lens.  Read More >>

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Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century...  Read More >>