History of ideas books

In his classic study Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624)’, Robert Jones explores the practical and...  Read More >>

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead  Read More >>

First published in 1926, Bertram S. Puckle's Funeral Customs is a comprehensive account of traditional funerary...  Read More >>

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second...  Read More >>

A study of the literature of the 'art of travel' in eighteenth-century France, showing how consideration of who...  Read More >>

Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a ""movement"" rather than as a presentation...  Read More >>

In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of...  Read More >>

The volume is inspired by Gilles Deleuze's philosophical project, which builds on the critique of European Humanism...  Read More >>

Etrange parcours que celui du Logos qui, de Heraclite a nos jours, tend a s'effacer, dans ce monde actuel, tout...  Read More >>

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The First Alcibiades or is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato,...  Read More >>

The First Alcibiades or is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato....  Read More >>

Eine Reflexion aus Kants handschriftlichem Nachlass, in der von einer anthropologia transcendentalis die Rede ist,...  Read More >>

Men, Women, and Gods is a classic essays collection by Helen H. Gardener. Nothing gives me more pleasure, nothing...  Read More >>

Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato (Steph. 70-100). It appears to attempt to determine the definition...  Read More >>

A dissertation on utilitarianism based on an examination of the utilitarianism of J.S. Mill  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of Isaiah Berlin's philosophy. Berlin was a major figure in 20th-century Anglophone...  Read More >>

Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II.  Read More >>

And herein lies both Wilson's typically mischievous nature and serious intent - Ishtar Rising is nothing less than...  Read More >>

Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under which the old Greek philosophy finally presented itself...  Read More >>

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This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab intellectual history. It reassesses Arabic...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive account of the initial development of the 'Grotian tradition' in international relations...  Read More >>

Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century - a man who set ideas on fire. His defence...  Read More >>