History of ideas books

Wilhelm Dilthey: Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften. Versuch einer Grundlegung für das Studium der Gesellschaft...  Read More >>

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An entertaining yet substantial guide to being good in the 21st century including a whistle-stop tour of contemporary...  Read More >>

Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life...  Read More >>

In a letter written to historian Jakob Burckhardt in 1886, referring to Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche wrote ""please...  Read More >>

This book attempts to demonstrate how Jean-Paul Sartre manages to solve two serious problems within the history...  Read More >>

Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life...  Read More >>

This volume explores Nietzsche’s decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays...  Read More >>

This exciting book explores the fate of ancient Greek gods, philosophy and tragedy amongst the wars and revolutions...  Read More >>

Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built...  Read More >>

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The first-ever comprehensive examination of Tzvetan Todorov's cultural theory and his place in European thought....  Read More >>

""The Decision of Desire is a thorough and highly inventive interpretation of the whole of Lacan's work, with an...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of texts from philosophical ethology to classical texts, and from continental philosophy...  Read More >>

A spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom  Read More >>

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The Founding Fathers are well known in the history of the United States for building the economic and political...  Read More >>

Der Band bietet aus verschiedenen Perspektiven eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritik, die drei führende Theoretiker...  Read More >>

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling: Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur als Einleitung in das Studium dieser Wissenschaft...  Read More >>

Ob Kunstwerke, im emphatischen Sinne des Wortes, in der Moderne überhaupt produziert werden können, hat Heidegger...  Read More >>

Hat die Reformation einen neuen Zugang zur Philosophie eingeführt? Wie hat es die wichtigsten Denker in der Geschichte...  Read More >>

This translation of Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates was first published in 1712, and is here printed from the...  Read More >>

Written by a sociologist and historian of ideas whose works include ""Madness and Civilization"", ""The Archaeology...  Read More >>

Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways...  Read More >>

Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have...  Read More >>