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The Philosophy Book
From the Vedas to the New Atheists, 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality—and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field over the last 3,500 years. The brief, engaging entries cover a range of topics...
by Simon Critchley
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives
Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives...
by James Knowlson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
For centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe. Yet as early as the first half of the seventeenth century, scholars, philosophers, and scientists were beginning to turn their attention to the possibility of formulating a totally new universal language. This wide-ranging...
Reason Without Freedom
The Problem of Epistemic Normativity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
We call beliefs reasonable or unreasonable, justified or unjustified. What does this imply about belief? Does this imply that we are responsible for our beliefs and that we should be blamed for our unreasonable convictions? Or does it imply that we are in control of our beliefs and that what we believe...
The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom
The Crisis over the Eastern Church in the Era of the Crimean War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This new political history of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire explains why Orthodoxy became the subject of acute political competition between the Great Powers during the mid 19th century. It also explores how such rivalries led, paradoxically, both to secularizing reforms and to Europe's last great war of religion - the Crimean War.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 842-992 (1518-1519)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus' life and in the history of his times. He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann Froben during the crucial phases in the production of his revised New Testament, the edition that he...
by A.P. Martinich
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English philosopher and one of the most important theorists of human nature and politics in the history of Western thought.
This superlative introduction presents Hobbes' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes' philosophy. A.P. Martinich...
Brains and Numbers
Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
A group of Oxford graduates, influenced by Arnold and later by Comte, formed the core of a generation of academic radicals who attempted to define the role of an educated élite in an emerging industrial mass democracy. This perceptive study of the English academic scene traces the emergence of Comtism...
Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition
Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book explores the activities of early modern Irish migrants in Spain, particularly their rather surprising association with the Spanish Inquisition. Pushed from home by political, economic and religious instability, and attracted to Spain by the wealth and opportunities of its burgeoning economy...
The Autocritique of Enlightenment
Rousseau and the Philosophes
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Of all the critiques of the Enlightenment, the most telling may be found in the life and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This searching, long overlooked auto critique receives its first full treatment by Mark Hulliung. Here he restores Rousseau to his historical context, the world of the philosophes,...
Thinking with Rousseau
From Machiavelli to Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Although indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau's actual place within that tradition, and the legacy of his thought, remains hotly disputed. Thinking with Rousseau reconsiders his contribution to this tradition through a series of essays exploring...
Auguste Comte and Positivism
The Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Although Auguste Comte is conventionally acknowledged as one of the founders of sociology and as a key representative of positivism, few new editions of his writings have been published in the English language in this century. He has become virtually dissociated from the history of modern positivism...
Boundaries, Extents and Circulations
Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space to a few canonical forms. This volume gives a much needed antidote. The contributing chapters examine...
The Discourse of Sensibility
The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is then necessarily to enter into...