History of ideas books

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, clandestine literature facilitated the expression and spread of heterodoxies....  Read More >>

One of the key routes for the dissemination of philosophical ideas in Europe between 1685 and 1750 was the exchange...  Read More >>

The most studied clandestine texts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are philosophical treatises drawing...  Read More >>

The existence of an ""offense of opinion"" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries did not prevent a certain...  Read More >>

Chiara Graf examines the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger,...  Read More >>

Can we speak of skeptical ""criteria""? Whether practical or epistemic, can a criterion be compatible with philosophies...  Read More >>

Historical reappraisal – history of the University When the Vienna School of Applied Arts was elevated to...  Read More >>

This book examines the concept of humanness and the ontological grounding it requires. A new ontological model,...  Read More >>

The question of Nietzsche's use of political theory has a long and vexed history. The contributors re-situate debates...  Read More >>

Nihilism seems to be linked to violence per definition. This historical and intellectual context has shaped the...  Read More >>

This volume reconstructs the emergence and development of Marx' theory of economic crises. Marx lived through five...  Read More >>

How can we reconcile systematic observations of religion with the question of the human? This is the question guiding...  Read More >>

This book places Peirce in the broad frame of Hegelian philosophy and his account of concept formation. This new...  Read More >>

This edition includes the letters exchanged between Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company from...  Read More >>

This volume examines (1) the philosophical sources of the Kantian concepts ""apperception"" and ""self-consciousness"",...  Read More >>

C.S. Peirce's mathematics, elaborated between 1870 and 1910, have acquired an enormous impact a century later. His...  Read More >>

This study examines the problem of the objective validity of transcendental arguments in dialogue with post-Kantian...  Read More >>

The importance of Nietzsche's unpublished works for his philosophy was long disputed. This new edition is true to...  Read More >>

The author explores the thought of one of the most important contemporary philosophers, Axel Honneth, in his attempt...  Read More >>

In the ecological tradition of reading Marx, this book provides philosophical reflections on the ecological crisis...  Read More >>

The place of God in Nietzsche's thought remains central and controversial. Nietzsche's proclamation of 'the death...  Read More >>

Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten or erased women's contributions. Their agency is a glaring blind spot...  Read More >>

This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity. James Hamilton explores...  Read More >>

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The question of the animal soul appears in Spinoza's philosophy in an unexpected context. Having rarely examined...  Read More >>