Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

This anthology of 81 articles is the first attempt to translate and collect the most significant political writing...  Read More >>

Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical...  Read More >>

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Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was...  Read More >>

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Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France,...  Read More >>

The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France,...  Read More >>

In tracing the history of the anti-mercantilist movement, the author shows that many of the ideas and attitudes...  Read More >>

A study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment. In tracing the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, Buffon,...  Read More >>

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Offers insights about how we come to understand and have knowledge of our world and, in so doing, alter our relationship...  Read More >>

This anthology of 81 articles is the first attempt to translate and collect the most significant political writing...  Read More >>

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Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology draws attention to a largely overlooked piece of Hegel’s philosophy: his substantial...  Read More >>

China in the German Enlightenment examines the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism,...  Read More >>

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. The texts in this...  Read More >>

Kenneth R. Westphal presents an original interpretation of Hume's and Kant's moral philosophies. He argues that...  Read More >>

One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale...  Read More >>

This fifth volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including...  Read More >>

First published in 1666, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s Description of a New World, Called the Blazing...  Read More >>

From the INTRODUCTION. The restlessness so characteristic of modern thought generally is even more noticeable in...  Read More >>

Nicholas F. Stang explores Kant's theory of possibility, from the precritical period of the 1750-60s to the Critical...  Read More >>

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