Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

The last decade or so has seen a strong renewal of interest in Kant's Legal Philosophy. The current volume brings...  Read More >>

Examining history through the lens of Bertrand de Jouvenel's high-low vs. middle mechanism, C.A. Bond lays bare...  Read More >>

Approaching the reign of John V of Portugal from a cross-disciplinary point of view, this volume illustrates to...  Read More >>

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; 1785; also known as the...  Read More >>

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While every biographer has something to say concerning Thomas Jefferson’s cavernous mind—his varied interests and...  Read More >>

Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world’s greatest science writers...  Read More >>

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Responses to the Meditations, a landmark work in the history of Western philosophy, demonstrate what philosophical...  Read More >>

This volume investigates Kant's conception of what a human being is and how a human being can act autonomously....  Read More >>

This book offers new critical perspectives on the relationship between the notions of speculation, logic and reality...  Read More >>

Do you want to be logical like Einstein, observant like Sherlock, and rational like Plato? These great names...  Read More >>

This collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau...  Read More >>

Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new...  Read More >>

This second edition of a classic in Anglo-American legal philosophy reopens the dialogue between Bentham's work...  Read More >>

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. The...  Read More >>

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Georges Dicker here provides a commentary on John Locke's masterwork, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding-the...  Read More >>

The first to analyse comprehensively the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, this study traces Catherine’s...  Read More >>

Georges Dicker here provides a commentary on John Locke's masterwork, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding-the...  Read More >>

Was ist Geist? Das ist eine der Grundfragen der Philosophie. Sie betrifft das Selbstverstandnis unseres bewussten...  Read More >>

The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought and argues that we should liberate ourselves from...  Read More >>

The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought and argues that we should liberate ourselves from...  Read More >>

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