Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

Melnick explains the ""third status"" of the self by identifying it with intellectual action that does not arise...  Read More >>

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Presents a fresh approach to philosophy of mind that combines naturalistic and rationalist perspectives usually...  Read More >>

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What constituted the ‘private’ in the eighteenth-century? In Representing private lives of the Enlightenment authors...  Read More >>

This brilliant and concise book from internationally renowned historian Tzvetan Todorov establishes the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

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This volume presents published articles by the distinguished scholar of early modern philosophy, Louis Loeb. Loeb...  Read More >>

This volume presents published articles by the distinguished scholar of early modern philosophy, Louis Loeb. Loeb...  Read More >>

An iconic figure in the movement for Greek independence, Adamantios Korais (1748-1833) also played a major role...  Read More >>

The essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel...  Read More >>

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and...  Read More >>

"Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth century were committed to the ideal of reflective autonomy--the principle...  Read More >>

Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment.  Read More >>

"Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains his play...  Read More >>

‘Women seem to be destined solely for our pleasure. When they no longer have that attraction, they have lost everything’...  Read More >>

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains essays on...  Read More >>

Depuis David Hume et Adam Smith, la notion de sympathie valorise l’activité irréfléchie de la sensibilité pour mieux...  Read More >>

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed...  Read More >>

Argues that the Enlightenment conception of rationality that feminists are fond of attacking is no longer a live...  Read More >>

Nietzsche - The Key Ideas is a comprehensive guide to one of the most influential and controversial philosophers...  Read More >>

This collection of essays, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discusses Kant's philosophical...  Read More >>

Before he had even conceived of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire there was another Edward Gibbon, a young...  Read More >>

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed...  Read More >>

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