Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

This is a unique guide to the built heritage of Edinburgh from the time of the Scottish Enlightenment, which includes...  Read More >>

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Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau....  Read More >>

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Although indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau's actual...  Read More >>

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Excited by the scientific breakthroughs of the day, David Hume set out to construct a science of the mind. 1748's...  Read More >>

Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course...  Read More >>

David Hume’s 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology...  Read More >>

Do we need religion to be good people? When Immanuel Kant tackled this question in 1793, he produced a book that...  Read More >>

René Descartes posed questions about the nature of knowledge and the nature of being that philosophers still debate...  Read More >>

There is a long tradition, in the history and philosophy of science, of studying Kant’s philosophy of mathematics,...  Read More >>

Born in Britain in 1737, Thomas Paine had a humble, religious upbringing and very little formal education. The course...  Read More >>

Rousseau's famous work sets out the radical concept of the 'social contract': a give-and-take relationship between...  Read More >>

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Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.  Read More >>

The vital, carefullycrafted discussion on Wagner's masterpiece, offering deep insight into both thework itself and...  Read More >>

This book includes both the original German version and, for the first time, an English translation of Carl Wilhelm...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an ethically and politically engaged philosophy of...  Read More >>

This book examines John Locke’s political thought and activity surrounding oceans with a focus on law and freedom...  Read More >>

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from...  Read More >>

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from...  Read More >>

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

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