History of ideas books

De Gruyter feiert Immanuel Kants 300. Geburtstag mit einer Sonderausgabe aller Kant-Bände aus der Reihe Klassiker...  Read More >>

""Alexander Baumgarten's Ethica Philosophica (1740) served as a chief textbook of philosophical instruction in German...  Read More >>

This book aims to re-evaluate the relations between two major ideologies that have been increasingly contested in...  Read More >>

""A version of this work was originally published in Italian in 2001 under the title Il totalitarismo.""  Read More >>

If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

This open access book sheds light on the term gongsheng/kyōsei, which is used in Chinese and Japanese to not only...  Read More >>

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""A version of this work was originally published in Italian in 2001 under the title Il totalitarismo.""  Read More >>

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This open access book sheds light on the term gongsheng/kyōsei, which is used in Chinese and Japanese to not only...  Read More >>

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Based on a vast collection of 17th-century texts, this book examines an important and neglected moment in the history...  Read More >>

Louis Chardon (1595-1651) est l'un des plus grands ecrivains de la litterature. Exact contemporain de Descartes,...  Read More >>

The lines between human and machine are blurring. Transhumanism promises extraordinary possibilities: gene editing...  Read More >>

The commentary offered in this edition of The Critique of Pure Reason provides a close textual reading of the key...  Read More >>

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You can be Black or African American. The choice is yours: Culture or Skin Color. Black History Month makes the...  Read More >>

Ziel der 1704 von G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) verfassten ""Neuen Abhandlungen"" ist die rationale Kritik Lockes sensualistischer...  Read More >>

This book is the first to give a comprehensive overview of and critically engage with Nietzsche's lyrical legacy...  Read More >>

Nietzsches Dichtung ""Also sprach Zarathustra"" (1883-85) sank zuletzt, etwa im Sog der verkaufstrachtigen Nietzsche-Biographie...  Read More >>

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Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of...  Read More >>

"Forget the cozy fireplaces and nature walks! This isn't your grandmother's Transcendentalism. Dive into the radical,...  Read More >>

Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love God and love others. While much of the secular social and emotional...  Read More >>

In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late,...  Read More >>