History of Western philosophy books

Benjamin on Fashion reconstructs and redefines Walter Benjamin’s complex, fragmentary and yet influential fashion...  Read More >>

Existential phenomenology can be a particularly helpful philosophical method for understanding human experience....  Read More >>

This book presents the first English translation of Alexander Baumgarten’s Initia Philosophiae Practicae Primae,...  Read More >>

What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space...  Read More >>

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This book investigates the emergence and development of early analytic philosophy and explicates the topics and...  Read More >>

This volume is the first book length treatment of the elusive and intriguing fourth-century CE philosopher, teacher,...  Read More >>

This book challenges a Western modernist perspective for the history of science. The study of ancient societies...  Read More >>

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Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas....  Read More >>

Die dritte der Unzeitgemäßen Betrachtungen Friedrich Nietzsches. Erstmals in einer neuen Ausgabe in moderner Rechtschreibung....  Read More >>

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Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which...  Read More >>

"In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed. That upward...  Read More >>

Challenging the standard interpretation of Nietzsche’s last published work, Ecce Homo, as frivolous autobiography,...  Read More >>

Charles E. Snyder considers the New Academy’s attacks on Stoic epistemology through a critical re-assessment of...  Read More >>

Horst Ruthrof revisits Husserl’s phenomenology of language and highlights his late writings as essential to understanding...  Read More >>

Tracing the notion of ‘the gift’ in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Emilio Corriero provides a new interpretation...  Read More >>

Collects 18 previously published essays and two new essays by one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze...  Read More >>

biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise,...  Read More >>

The Questioning of Intelligence is an inquiry by intelligence of intelligence. It is a questioning of the ground...  Read More >>

An indispensable resource for anyone studying and researching Gadamer, hermeneutics and the history of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Collects 18 previously published essays and two new essays by one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze...  Read More >>

This book offers a recasting of traditional political philosophy by interpreting core social phenomena as modes...  Read More >>

Individuals in the Social Lifeworld is an analysis of Dasein's Being-in-the-world by asking how an individual Dasein...  Read More >>