History of Western philosophy books

Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. From Socrates to Judith...  Read More >>

Italian philosophy constitutes one of the most vibrant and fruitful...  Read More >>

"""An investigation into the reasons for the inclusion and exclusion of Chinese and Indian philosophical thought...  Read More >>

Best known for the progressive school he founded in Dessau during the 18th century, Johann Bernhard Basedow was...  Read More >>

Stoicism has had a diverse reception in German philosophy. This is the first interpretive study of shared themes...  Read More >>

Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the ‘father of philosophy of nature’ owing to his profound influence...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their...  Read More >>

Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the...  Read More >>

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In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican...  Read More >>

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Wir leben in einem Zeitalter gesteigerter Mobilitat - Merkmale sind eine hochtechnisierte Geschwindigkeit bei Verkehr,...  Read More >>

"What would a ""reappeared"" Plotinus answer today if asked how we might build a divinely-ordered city? That is...  Read More >>

We live in a remarkable world: science and technology has shifted our understanding of what's possible and transformed...  Read More >>

The Sceptical Chymist from Robert Boyle. Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor (1627...  Read More >>

They were Europe's greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love? Lovers of Philosophy explores the love...  Read More >>

Offers insights about how we come to understand and have knowledge of our world and, in so doing, alter our relationship...  Read More >>

Thomas Paine was Deist, a believer in God, but highly critical of priests and appeals to the authority of holy books....  Read More >>

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Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This...  Read More >>

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This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new...  Read More >>

First published in French in 1933 as Le temps vecu, this edition of this classic work of phenomenological psychiatry...  Read More >>

Italian philosophy constitutes one of the most vibrant and fruitful...  Read More >>