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Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game
This is the first book-length treatment of the unique nature and development of Nietzsche’s post-Zarathustran political philosophy. This later...
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Reclaiming the History of Ethics
The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All the...
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Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
This book offers a revisionary account of key epistemological concepts and doctrines of St Thomas Aquinas, particularly his concept of scientia...
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The Cambridge Companion to William James
William James (1842–1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The...
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Idealism as Modernism
Modernity has come to refer both to a contested historical category and to an even more contested philosophical and civilisational ideal. In this...
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Kant and the Experience of Freedom
This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant’s aesthetics and his ethics....
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Idealism as Modernism
Modernity has come to refer both to a contested historical category and to an even more contested philosophical and civilisational ideal. In this...
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Making a Necessity of Virtue
This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of Aristotelian and Kantian ethics together, in a way that remains faithful to the texts and...
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Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance
This book examines Aristotle’s metaphysics and his account of nature, stressing the ways in which his desire to explain observed natural processes...
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The Roman Cultural Revolution
This book places culture centre-stage in the investigation of the transformation of Rome from Republic to Empire. It is the first book to attempt to...
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Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion
Ludwig Feuerbach is traditionally regarded as a significant but transitional figure in the development of nineteenth-century German thought. Readings...
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The Forensic Stage
Graeco-Roman New Comedy has traditionally provided a source for legal historians examining the language and operation of law both in Athens in the...
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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...
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The Grammar of Meaning
What is the function of concepts pertaining to meaning in socio-linguistic practice? In this study, the authors argue that we can approach a...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European...
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The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains...
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Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven
A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European...
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Adorno’s Aesthetics of Music
This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal...
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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical...
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Singularities
The possibility of literary theory has been repeatedly put at risk by the apparently simple question ‘What is a literary text?’ Throughout the...
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Aratus: Phaenomena
Aratus of Soli was a highly original poet of the early third century BC, famous throughout antiquity for his didactic epic on constellations and...
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Nietzsche: Daybreak
Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche’s "mature" philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and...
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Singularities
The possibility of literary theory has been repeatedly put at risk by the apparently simple question What is a literary text? Throughout the...
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