Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

Revolutionary, mathematician, economist, philosopher and politician, Condorcet (1743–1794) wrote a compelling view...  Read More >>

This introduction explores the basis of Kant's anti-naturalist, secular, humanist vision of human flourishing. Kant's...  Read More >>

"Kant's central task in the ""First Critique"" is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature...  Read More >>

"Kant's central task in the ""First Critique"" is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature...  Read More >>

Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work...  Read More >>

Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion...  Read More >>

Kant’s ""Critique of Pure Reason"" is so outstanding among modern philosophical works, that it can be termed ""the""...  Read More >>

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The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies examines the creation of the academic Bible. Beginning with...  Read More >>

The father of modern philosophy, Descartes is still one of the most widely discussed philosophers today. Putting...  Read More >>

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Descartes' characterisation of the mind as a 'thinking thing' marks the beginning of modern philosophy of mind....  Read More >>

Previously unexplored sources such as newspaper indexes and introductions, plays, auction catalogues and a unique...  Read More >>

"In this biography -- translated for the first time into English -- German theologian Oswald Bayer describes the...  Read More >>

Fascinating study of the relationship between the philosopher and the psychoanalyst by major Slovenian scholar....  Read More >>

Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

A collection of essays exploring the implicit dispute between Gilles Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and Kant's...  Read More >>

The first English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist,...  Read More >>

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This book aims to add to existing knowledge of how eighteenth-century ideas of human nature and rights, of universal...  Read More >>

An important new study of a central figure in Modern Philosophy focusing on the vital issues of human freedom and...  Read More >>

Exploring the history of the concept of 'rationality', Deborah K. Hakes argues that feminism should seek to develop...  Read More >>

This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism....  Read More >>