History of Western philosophy books

This center consists of theological developments involving the adoption of Peter Lombard’s Sentences as a theological...  Read More >>

This first volume examines how sexual mores and behavior, religious dogma and practice, and artistic creativity...  Read More >>

This second volume examines how sexual mores and behavior, religious dogma and practice, and literary creativity...  Read More >>

Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy.  Read More >>

A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.  Read More >>

Argues that symbolism is an important and unique element of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.  Read More >>

Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought....  Read More >>

Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a “movement” rather than as a presentation...  Read More >>

Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement,...  Read More >>

Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and...  Read More >>

Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their...  Read More >>

A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.  Read More >>

Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the...  Read More >>

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This collection of four volumes re-examines Marx and Engels’ theories of the development trajectory of Eastern societies....  Read More >>

Argues that mediation is a central theme in this Platonic dialogue dedicated to the exploration of what it means...  Read More >>

Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German...  Read More >>

Advances an interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement.  Read More >>

Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must...  Read More >>

Early Christianity did not originate in a vacuum but in a world of linguistic, social, religious, and cultural richness...  Read More >>

Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue’s philosophical argumentation.  Read More >>

"Occasionalism is the thesis that God alone is the true cause of everything that happens in the world, and created...  Read More >>

"John Richardson here organizes Nietzsche's thinking around the central and unifying concept of values. Richardson...  Read More >>

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This book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the...  Read More >>