Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 books

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.” —Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience...  Read More >>

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The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets Originally published...  Read More >>

This revisionist history traces an influential theory of practical reason from its origins in ancient Greece to...  Read More >>

This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German...  Read More >>

One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and nineteenth-century science, Liedman’s work is...  Read More >>

Conversations with My Dog by Hannah Gold is a tale for those who love to seek new adventures and the promise of...  Read More >>

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

A founding figure of German idealism, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) developed a radically new version of transcendental...  Read More >>

In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist...  Read More >>

The late renowned scholar M. A. Stewart offers a comprehensive account of the life and works of David Hume. Stewart...  Read More >>

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early...  Read More >>

This book highlights the powerful impact of some important Spanish Jesuits (Suárez, Acosta, Ribadeneira, Mariana)...  Read More >>

This book provides a new account of the emergence of the philosophy of personal identity in the early modern period....  Read More >>

By drawing on the insights of diverse scholars from around the globe, this volume systematically investigates the...  Read More >>

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Scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian...  Read More >>

This collection of the finest post-war German-language scholarship on Nietzsche's philosophy ranges over his concept...  Read More >>

This book re-conceptualizes teaching through an engagement with Jean-Paul Sartre’s early existentialist thought....  Read More >>

Au cours de mes voyages, je me suis trouvé avec un humoriste qui avait chez lui un modelage de la Méduse de Rondanini,...  Read More >>

Grand Canyon Ecstasy: The Psyche of Water and Stone is an exploration of the practical and philosophical aspects...  Read More >>

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Nicolas Bickmann shows that in the early phase of his philosophizing (1793-1800), Fichte develops various, extremely...  Read More >>

Combining careful historical and textual analysis with comparisons across past and present political theory, this...  Read More >>