History Criticism category: 15616 books
Divine Fury
A History of Genius
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Genius. The word connotes an almost unworldly power: the power to create, to grasp universal secrets, even to destroy. As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury, the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised...
The Philosopher's Toolkit
A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection
Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods...
Against the Current
Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings...
by Anthony Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Anthony Gottlieb’s landmark The Dream of Reason and its sequel challenge Bertrand Russell’s classic as the definitive history of Western philosophy.
Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years....
by James Garvey, Jeremy Stangroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2005
Philosophy has been under way for more than two thousand years. The Great Philosophers traces the biggest and most influential thoughts in philosophy's long stride through history, beginning with the Ancient Greeks and Early Romans, the first philosophical thinkers in the West, to whom much is owed....
Philosophy 101
From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions!
Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology,...
Philosophy in the Modern World
A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries...
by Stephen Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts.
In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses...
by Johanna Oksala
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual...
by Stefano Ulliana
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
This e-book tries to describe fairly quickly, but at the same time precisely and in an articulated way, the structure in becoming of the thought of G.F.W. Hegel (1870-1831), an idealist German thinker. This work analyzes his thought from its first phase, animated by Jacobin and revolutionary ideals,...
The Wisdom of Generations
Using the Lessons of History to Create a Values-Based Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Wisdom of Generations, the sixth book in The Language of Conscience Evolution, exposes a method of thinking that already has the world's greatest influencers, policy makers, and leaders applauding because the book touches the very heart of cultural existence at every level- at home, in the community,...
by Paul Guyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
In this updated edition of his outstanding introduction to Kant, Paul Guyer uses Kant’s central conception of autonomy as the key to his thought.
Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant’s life and times, Guyer introduces Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, carefully explaining his...
Evidence and Faith
Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2005
Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the seventeenth century to the present, with an emphasis on shifting views of faith and the nature of evidence. The book begins with the movement called Cambridge Platonism, which formed a bridge...
The Invention of Autonomy
A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1997
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for...