Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

"The recent renewal of the faith-reason debate has focused attention on earlier episodes in its history. One of...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, is an essential contribution...  Read More >>

New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present....  Read More >>

Hospitality, in particular hospitality to strangers, was promoted in the eighteenth century as a universal human...  Read More >>

Hume on Causation provides a sustained discussion and comparison of the major interpretative positions concerning...  Read More >>

A comprehensive introduction to the work of Immanuel Kant, the pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment.  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Un ‘Dictionnaire’ rassemble les notices, classées par ordre alphabétique des noms des personnages évoqués, présentant...  Read More >>

Spinoza regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, but his theory of freedom has not received...  Read More >>

The volume will consist of a series of interpretative studies of Locke’s philosophical and religious thought in...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Although Joseph de Maistre has long been regarded as characterising the Counter-Enlightenment, his intellectual...  Read More >>

Though Emile is considered the central pedagogical text of the French Enlightenment, a myriad of lesser-known thinkers...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs, using the tools of propositional logic, thirty-six of the central arguments from Immanuel...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs, using the tools of propositional logic, thirty-six of the central arguments from Immanuel...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early...  Read More >>

Several essays by acclaimed Kant scholars broach a vastly neglected problem in discussions of Kant's idealism, namely...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His revolutionary ideas are systematically...  Read More >>

Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His revolutionary ideas are systematically...  Read More >>

The 'German Socrates', Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and...  Read More >>

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Addresses a broad...  Read More >>

A clear and accessible graphic guide to all the puzzling questions this important philosopher asked about human...  Read More >>

On ne peut penser les Lumières sans l’auteur du Contrat social et l’Emile, mais on ne saurait cependant nier que...  Read More >>