Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist best known for his contributions to the...  Read More >>

Using a complete interpretation of Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings, this book argues that Whitehead...  Read More >>

Emma Gilby reassesses Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises,...  Read More >>

The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters  Read More >>

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Suitable for student readers and more advanced scholars who would like an introduction to experimental philosophy,...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the connections between reinterpreting Descartes and Spinoza.  Read More >>

This volume widens the scope of research into the relation between religion and Enlightenment. The contributions...  Read More >>

Suitable for student readers and more advanced scholars who would like an introduction to experimental philosophy,...  Read More >>

English summary: Arnold presents the first systematic study of the early biblical and exegetical writings from Schelling's...  Read More >>

La France est une nation legere - ce lieu commun antique est abondamment repris tout au long du XVIIIe siecle, temoignant...  Read More >>

This book argues that the Essay is unified from beginning to end around its compositional theory of ideas and the...  Read More >>

This book presents Rousseau’s normative account of truthseeking, his account of what human beings must do if they...  Read More >>

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over...  Read More >>

Indem Locke die Unterscheidung zwischen deutlichen und verworrenen Ideen auf eine neue Weise au?asst, namlich auf...  Read More >>

The Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including...  Read More >>

Hegel’s critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy...  Read More >>

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic...  Read More >>

How, theorists ask, can our private experiences guide us to knowledge of a mind-independent reality? Exploring topics...  Read More >>

Although many historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed ‘Age of Reason’, Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Our understanding of human rationality has changed significantly since the beginning of the century, with growing...  Read More >>

This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen...  Read More >>

A collection of original essays offering a comprehensive history of the emergence of scientific naturalism.  Read More >>

""...there is nothing elementary about O'Grady's primer. She pulls off the feat of writing a reliable and accessible...  Read More >>