Bøker fra Cambridge University Press
Kun lagervarer
Salvador Dalí’s Art and Writing, 1927–1942
This book examines the evolution of Dalí’s art during the 1920s and 1930s when he was associated first with the Catalan avant-garde and then with...
Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together...
Les mer
Time, Labor, and Social Domination
Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx’s mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions...
Les mer
Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics
The doctrines of the Hellenistic Schools - Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics - are known to have had a formative influence on later thought, but...
Les mer
Stoic Studies
For the past three decades A. A. Long has been at the forefront of research in Hellenistic philosophy. In this book he assembles a dozen articles on...
Les mer
Nietzsche contra Rousseau
Keith Ansell-Pearson’s book is an important and very welcome contribution to a neglected area of research: Nietzsche’s political thought....
Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Bacon
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) is one of the most important figures of the early modern era. His plan for scientific reform played a central role in the...
Les mer
Hegel’s Phenomenology
The Phenomenology of Spirit is both one of Hegel’s most widely read books and one of his most obscure. The book is the most detailed commentary on...
Les mer
Natural Law and Moral Philosophy
This major contribution to the history of philosophy provides the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, sets out the full...
Les mer
Towards Justice and Virtue
Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of justice and those who commend...
Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes
It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the...
Les mer
Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
Thinking and writing about the past has always been of critical importance to the way that any culture or civilization views itself and its role in...
Les mer
Robert Boyle
In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627–91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted ‘Nature’...
Les mer
Mourning Becomes the Law
In Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or ‘despairing rationalism withour reason’. Arguing that...
Les mer
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
Who invented the Greek alphabet and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay...
Les mer
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In...
Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most...
Les mer
The Beginning and the End of Religion
The common view that religion is something quite separate from politics, art, science, law and economics is one that is peculiar to modern Western...
Les mer
The Triumph of Odysseus
The Triumph of Odysseus is part of the highly successful Reading Greek series. It presents the complete Greek text of Books 21 and 22 of Homer’s...
Les mer
Robert Boyle
In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627–91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted ‘Nature’...
Les mer
Idealism and Freedom
Henry Allison is one of the foremost interpreters of the philosophy of Kant. This new volume collects all his recent essays on Kant’s theoretical...
Les mer
The Psychology of Freedom
This book presents an alternative theory of the will - of our capacity for decision making. The book argues that taking a decision to act is...
Les mer
Writing Rome
The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of...
Les mer
