History of ideas books

This book presents an accessible and carefully argued challenge to conventional approaches to thinking about free...  Read More >>

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The phrase ""ingeniousness of justice"" stems from Nietzsche, who professed to value this form of genius as much...  Read More >>

The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and...  Read More >>

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""This title contains revised translations of Plotinus's opus. In addition to the translations, included is an appendix...  Read More >>

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""This title contains revised translations of Plotinus's opus. In addition to the translations, included is an appendix...  Read More >>

Auf die Frage ""Was ist Wahrnehmung und welche Rolle spielt sie für die Objektivität der Erfahrung?"" hätte Ernst...  Read More >>

Representative sampling of Thoreau's most frequently read and cited essays: ""On the Duty of Civil Disobedience""...  Read More >>

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Transparency has a long history, but it is ambiguous in its effects  Read More >>

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain....  Read More >>

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Im interdisziplinären Dialog zwischen der Geschichts, Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft sowie der Kirchen- und Rechtsgeschichte...  Read More >>

Your best friend deserves to know the secrets of how to live a good life, too  Read More >>

Recurrent questions about space have dogged philosophers since ancient times. Can an ordinary person draw from his...  Read More >>

This book examines the wide-ranging implications for historical research of the view that everything is physical...  Read More >>

This collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders whatFriedrich Hlderlin's work reveals...  Read More >>

A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find...  Read More >>

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This book deepens and challenges discourses in current continental philosophy relating to the experience of alienation...  Read More >>

This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage...  Read More >>

This book defends an understanding of Kant's theory of the pure aesthetic judgment of taste as detailing an operation...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's ideas are a major reference point for virtually all philosophical theories of human rights. Yet...  Read More >>