The Great Thinkers is a collection of some of the most important ideas of Eastern and Western culture - drawn from the works of those philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, artists and...

Lord Acton's essays on liberal Catholicism demonstrate the breadth and brilliance of his thought and the strength of his advocacy as the liberal intellectual of the last century.-- Professor S. W...

The nature of matter was as intriguing a question for ancient philosophers as it is for contemporary physicists, and Matter, Space, and Motion presents a fresh and illuminating account of the rich...

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Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called “Age of Reason” to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, social,...

A persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements. Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy,...

Il titolo della mostra allude a una teoria dell’arte, fondata sul culto dell’antichità classica, cui si ispirarono molti degli artisti italiani attivi a Roma nel corso del Seicento, Alessandro...

Une présentation de la réflexion hégélienne sur les arts du visible.

Lucrèce entièrement annoté de la main de Montaigne! Les remarques et commentaires, la plupart en français, jusqu'aux traces de sa plume traînante dans les marges, indiquent les réactions de Montaigne...

Democracy is the most potent political idea in the world today, yet the future of democracy is increasingly uncertain. Key assumptions of democratic thinking and practice are being undermined by...

This is the most detailed biography of Prussian general and intellectual Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

“Labor is the living, form-giving fire,” Marx wrote. “It is the transitoriness of things, their temporality, as their transformation by living time.” How is it, then, that labor, with all its...

The Idea of Nature propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek...

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), one of the founders of critical theory has become a subject of renewed attention and appreciation in Germany in the last decade, especially since the publication of the...

After years of exile during the Second World War, Theodor Adorno returned home to Germany. Having stated, "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," what would he now have to say about the...

" . . . elegant and provocative . . . Exhibit[s] a subtle mastery of Heidegger's works." —Review of Metaphysics" . . . splendidly precise study of Heidegger . . . to be recommended not only to...

Containing the debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky on epistemology and politics, this book also features the most significant essays by the most important French thinkers who influenced...