History of ideas books

Reviving Nietzsches use of the ancient gods Apollo and Dionysus as notions for seeing the emergence, growth, and...  Read More >>

Explores the origins of Japanese psychology through the contributions of pioneering individuals, charting cross-cultural...  Read More >>

This Oxford Handbook offers a broad critical survey of the development of phenomenology, one of the main streams...  Read More >>

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

What can Western Philosophy tell us about purpose and meaning in our lives?  Read More >>

This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a ""real"" or ""universal"" character: a scientific and objective...  Read More >>

How communist movements from 1880 to 1935 betrayed Marx's vision, lucid accounts of the theories of Western Marxism...  Read More >>

Jay Sherry sheds light on how this network grew and how Jung applied his unique view of the image-making capacity...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The first multidisciplinary study of the De Nola (Venice 1514), a Latin antiquarian work written by the Nolan humanist...  Read More >>

Nakamura zeigt, dass die hegelsche Rechtsphilosophie einen kritischen Maßstab für die Analyse der modernen Staaten...  Read More >>

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

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This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...  Read More >>

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Voltaire publie en 1759 un conte philosophique, Candide. Pour avoir embrassé la belle Cunégonde, le jeune Candide...  Read More >>

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After the publication of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations (Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen) the term 'Untimely' was...  Read More >>

"Es dürfte wohl niemand vor bzw. außerhalb der ""General Systems Theory"" unserer Tage das Systemthema auf so allgemeiner...  Read More >>

During his seminary studies, Ross became acquainted with the positions of the """"new atheists."""" Ross observed...  Read More >>

This book establishes a dialogue between colonial studies and the history of science, contributing to a renewed...  Read More >>