Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

Eighteenth-century Epicureanism is often viewed as radical, anti-religious and politically dangerous. But to what...  Read More >>

A work that is based on the author's university lectures from 1967-8. It focuses upon two of the twentieth century's...  Read More >>

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

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This collection of twelve new essays by distinguished scholars in the fields of history and the philosophy of economics...  Read More >>

True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy focuses on the practicality of Spinoza's thought. This is revealed...  Read More >>

Rousseau's major works, available for the first time in a uniform English edition, continue with a work that situates...  Read More >>

This is the third of three volumes which together comprise a selective historical and critical study of the development...  Read More >>

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes' philosophical followers....  Read More >>

Presents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was...  Read More >>

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most notorious and pious of Rene Descartes' philosophical followers....  Read More >>

Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping...  Read More >>

In this book, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking...  Read More >>

Presents a radical assessment of Hegel. This title reveals the problems and limitations of sociological method....  Read More >>

Aucun autre siècle n’a autant inspiré grand comme petit écran, de l’époque des Frères Lumière à celle de Kubrick,...  Read More >>

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, this volume studies the role censorship played in the intellectual...  Read More >>

Kant's Moral Religion argues that Kant's doctrine of religious belief if consistent with his best critical thinking...  Read More >>

This book explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence as a means...  Read More >>

Voltaire’s turbulent relationship with the courts of law of ancien régime France reveals much about his social and...  Read More >>

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Hegel's Metaphysics is a series of essays analysing the metaphysical ideas and influence of the great German philosopher...  Read More >>

Shows Goethe, the most famous of German writers, as a child of the Enlightenment.  Read More >>

Presents an examination of the ideas of the early modern philosophers on the nature of mind. This book examines...  Read More >>

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