History of ideas books

In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the loss of the classic values...  Read More >>

The volume provides the first book-length study of Chrysostomus Javelli’s philosophical works. In this volume, a...  Read More >>

On the contrary, Rancière understands sociology to constitute a problematic, a set of assumptions and interpretative...  Read More >>

Argues for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art and everyday life, taking Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This book offers twelve examples, from 1600-2000, of the development of scientific ideas that were shaped by religious...  Read More >>

This book expands the known canon by presenting arguments and concepts from women philosophers, from all periods...  Read More >>

This pioneering monograph provocatively explodes current research paradigms for the modern and the medieval by showing...  Read More >>

Positions processes of making and doing, in creative and critical practice, within a feminist new materialist framework...  Read More >>

Argues for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art and everyday life, taking Shakespeare...  Read More >>

An exploration of Martin Luther's multifaceted impact on the translation, interpretation and use of scripture, on...  Read More >>

The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse offers a re-evaluation of Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory and argues for its...  Read More >>

The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief...  Read More >>

Las aportaciones centrales del libro son tres: una traducción de un texto inédito a cualquier idioma del autor,...  Read More >>

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain....  Read More >>

Despite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original...  Read More >>

Psychiatry has to be taken seriously. An ever-increasing proportion of the population are prescribed long-term,...  Read More >>

This Oxford Handbook engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German...  Read More >>

Darin Weinberg offers a new theorization of addiction that incorporates history, ethnography, and critical theory...  Read More >>

Psychiatry has to be taken seriously. An ever-increasing proportion of the population are prescribed long-term,...  Read More >>

This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods,...  Read More >>

Temporal Experiments uses literature, music, and visual art to think through the subtle workings of time in our...  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James’ moral philosophy: an ""ethics of responsible self-fashioning.""...  Read More >>

This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It...  Read More >>

This book defends the controversial view that Nietzsche is a metaphysician against a tendency to sever Nietzsche...  Read More >>

This book offers new perspectives on the theoretical elements of the Opus postumum. The contributors read the OP...  Read More >>