History of ideas books

This volume offers a unique comparative perspective on post-war conservatism, as it traces the rise and mutations...  Read More >>

Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious...  Read More >>

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Drawing from original source material, contemporary scholarship, and Wilfred Bion’s psychoanalytic writings, Zen...  Read More >>

One of Hegel’s most controversial and confounding claims is that “the real is rational and the rational is real.”...  Read More >>

Elucidates the historical context and the subsequent influence of Paine's text, as well as the major problems in...  Read More >>

The outbreak of World War I in August 1914,set in chain a series of crises and re-configurations, which have continued...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Rembrandt als Erzieher About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...  Read More >>

Papers from a conference held September 1999, by the Forschungsstèatte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft in...  Read More >>

This book contains twelve engaging philosophical lectures given by Alexandru Dragomir, most of them given during...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a number of original articles by leading Leibniz scholars to address the meaning and...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch vertritt eine provokative neue These: Kant befand sich bis kurz vor seinem Tode durchaus im Vollbesitz...  Read More >>

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Considering novels by Abraham Cahan, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside the educational thought...  Read More >>

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This groundbreaking study of one of the defining political problems of our era traces the development of ideas about...  Read More >>

Reception studies has profoundly transformed Classics and its objects of study: while canonical texts demand much...  Read More >>

This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism,...  Read More >>

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Im ersten Band der „Ausgewählten Schriften von Claus Offe“ sind wichtige Arbeiten zu Arbeitsmarkt und Arbeitsgesellschaft...  Read More >>

Neo-Thomism has served as source of inspiration for various concepts of modernization and progress. It helped to...  Read More >>

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This volume traces the history of animals in philosophy, from antiquity down to contemporary times. Negative attitudes...  Read More >>

This book unearths Carter’s deconstruction of the male-dominated discipline of Western thought. By re-examining...  Read More >>

Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion...  Read More >>