History of ideas books

Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental...  Read More >>

Originally published: Discours, figure. Paris: Klincksieck, 1971.  Read More >>

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue,...  Read More >>

In How Language Informs Mathematics Dirk Damsma shows how Hegel’s and Marx’s dialectics allow us to understand the...  Read More >>

This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics,...  Read More >>

The Advancement of Learning (full title is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon. It inspired the taxonomic structure of...  Read More >>

This title, which at first sight seems curious, shows Pieper’s philosophical work as rooted in the basics. He takes...  Read More >>

Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Leo Baeck, Theodor Lessing, Jakob Wassermann, Walter Hasenclever, and Lion Feuchtwanger...  Read More >>

These essays provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of Spinoza’s views of freedom, action, and motivation...  Read More >>

Ontology: Laying the Foundations is the first volume of Nicolai Hartmann's monumental four volume ontological work....  Read More >>

Although Franz Brentano was one of the most influential turn-of-the-century philosophers, he, like Ludwig Wittgenstein,...  Read More >>

This book fills a remarkable gap in literature. It provides an overview of the main philosophical theories about...  Read More >>

The sequel to a lifetime of collected quotes, sayings, philosophies, viewpoints & thoughts. This is the fourth book...  Read More >>

This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics,...  Read More >>

The articles of this volume shed new light on the reception of Origen's concepts of free will and universal salvation...  Read More >>

In spite of the commonly held opinion according to which Galen's authority was gradually superseded by Vesalius...  Read More >>

Building on critical and contemporary theory, these essays address the multiple ways in which the Turkish regime...  Read More >>

Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge...  Read More >>

What world lies just beyond our own, far too out of reach for anyone to clearly perceive? Such mysteries have led...  Read More >>

This volume analyses the possibilities and limits of Lacanian theory when it comes to studying non-European religions...  Read More >>

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Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge...  Read More >>

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John Perry offers a rethinking of Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language, which had a dominant...  Read More >>

This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual...  Read More >>