Humanities books

In a global landscape shaped by technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive force, redefining...  Read More >>

The Animals of Ancient Egypt Then and Now provides a simultaneous guide to some 60 species of mammal, bird, reptile,...  Read More >>

This Element describes early Chinese views of the heart-mind (xin 心) and its relation to the psychology of a whole...  Read More >>

This Element critically examines leading normative accounts of group discrimination-harm, disrespect, and inequality-and...  Read More >>

This Element reconstructs Kant's puzzling statements about the moral feeling of respect (Achtung), which is 'a feeling...  Read More >>

This Element reassesses narratives of intercultural transmission in medieval European magic, highlighting complex...  Read More >>

Ireland's Empire examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the...  Read More >>

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate...  Read More >>

Augustine’s point of engagement with Platonic political thought, this book argues, is the division between the few...  Read More >>

This book critically engages Colin Gunton’s trinitarian theology of culture in the context of modern debates in...  Read More >>

This is the first scholarly monograph that systematically presents and applies Bavinck’s theological anthropology...  Read More >>

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the nature and function of the oneiric in David Lynch's different phases and audio-visual...  Read More >>

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

From Marxist revolution and class struggle to market reforms and national rejuvenation, the Communist Party of China...  Read More >>

Written for young adults, this biography of Frederick Douglass covers the life of the most famous black abolitionist...  Read More >>

Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of medieval women and gender,...  Read More >>

Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of slavery, this book covers...  Read More >>

Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of women in ancient Egypt, this...  Read More >>

Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of Roman women and gender, this...  Read More >>

Science in the Ancient World presents a worldwide history of science, from prehistoric times through the medieval...  Read More >>

A literal and philosophical journey through the experiences of the tea ritual and its aesthetic motives, unwrapping...  Read More >>

Defines a unique period in British youth culture and lifestyle publishing, drawing on oral history, editorial analysis...  Read More >>

What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds...  Read More >>