History of ideas books

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This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through...  Read More >>

La grandeur des classiques reside aussi en ce qu'ils nous restent enigmatiques. C'est par excellence le cas de La...  Read More >>

Stories capture those moments of existence visible only to the most attentive observer.  Read More >>

This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspective, analysing...  Read More >>

This book addresses the changing relationships among political participation, political representation, and popular...  Read More >>

**Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021** Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as...  Read More >>

This book explains the Western colonial project and the West's attempt to legitimize it through its international...  Read More >>

The Crown, bedrock of the constitution and ultimate source of state power, is a legal fiction; ambiguous, enigmatic,...  Read More >>

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart...  Read More >>

Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, with his work...  Read More >>

**Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021** Coping with the climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face as...  Read More >>

In this book, Rupert Read outlines the first resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein...  Read More >>

This collection of fourteen original essays addresses the seminal contribution of Franz Brentano and his heirs,...  Read More >>

This book is intended to offer a historical, conceptual and methodological analysis of selected iconic shifts (revolutions)...  Read More >>

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote a strong text to explain his belief system in ""The World as Will and...  Read More >>

Der Impuls, die Wahrheit und die Schönheit von Kants Philosophie zu würdigen und zu bewahren, hat in jüngerer Vergangenheit...  Read More >>

H. Taine / par Amédée de Margerie, ... Date de l'édition originale: 1894 Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une...  Read More >>

M. Victor Cousin, sa vie et sa correspondance. Tome 3 / par J. Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire Date de l'édition originale:...  Read More >>

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

Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning, and Society is the eighth volume of the series published by the International...  Read More >>

The famous letters of Bernard of Clairvaux attacking the philosopher Peter Abelard and a vituperative response to...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch beleuchtet diese Herausforderungen aus drei Perspektiven: aus der Perspektive des einzelnen Individuums,...  Read More >>

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures  Read More >>

Owen Ware here develops and defends a novel interpretation of Fichte's moral philosophy as an ethics of wholeness....  Read More >>