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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
This study offers an original exploration of Milton’s relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton... Les mer
Inventing our Selves
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity,... Les mer
Terence: Eunuchus
Terence’s Eunuchus (The Eunuch) was his most successful play in his lifetime but has been surprisingly neglected by modern commentators. In this... Les mer
Posidonius
Posidonius was a major intellectual figure of the Hellenistic world whose interests and contribution spread over the whole intellectual field:... Les mer
Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Life Span
In the last two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators of behavior,... Les mer
Theocritus: A Selection
This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow’s edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the... Les mer
Perspectives on Activity Theory
Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by... Les mer
Coercion and Punishment in Long-Term Perspectives
Children must learn to act appropriately, in ways that differ from society to society and from context to context. The question of how best to... Les mer
Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience
In this book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s approach to... Les mer
Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967
This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is... Les mer
Kant’s Ethical Thought
This is a major new study of Kant’s ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that... Les mer
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
This book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079–1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a... Les mer
Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience
The perspective that deaf people should be regarded as a cultural and language minority group rather than individuals with an audiological disability... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable.... Les mer
Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism
This is the first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the political, legal, and cultural writings of Carl Schmitt, perhaps this century’s... Les mer
Substance and Individuation in Leibniz
This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz’s metaphysics. In contrast to traditional... Les mer
Hegel’s Art History and the Critique of Modernity
In this study, Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel’s theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history, Hegel viewed the... Les mer
Hobbes: A Biography
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) is recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for his... Les mer
Nietzsche
This classic biography of Nietzsche, first published in the 1960s, was enthusiastically reviewed at the time. The biography is now reissued with its... Les mer
Critique of Pure Reason
This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal... Les mer
The God of Spinoza
This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza’s philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a... Les mer
William James and the Metaphysics of Experience
William James is frequently considered one of America’s most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion.... Les mer
The Divided Self of William James
This book offers a powerful interpretation of the philosophy of William James. It focuses on the multiple directions in which James’s philosophy... Les mer
Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity
In this book Gary Gutting offers a powerful account of the nature of human reason in modern times. The fundamental question addressed by the book is... Les mer