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The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza
Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza has been one of the most inspiring and influential philosophers of the modern era, yet also one of the most difficult...
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Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy
This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these...
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Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688) deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In...
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Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker
Using Kierkegaard’s later religious writings as well as his earlier philosophical works, David Gouwens explores this philosopher’s religious and...
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Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism
This unusually accessible account of recent Anglo-American philosophy focuses on how that philosophy has challenged deeply held notions of...
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Alexis: The Fragments
This is the first detailed commentary to be compiled on the fragments of the Greek comic poet Alexis. Alexis seems to have had an important effect on...
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Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker
Using Kierkegaard’s later religious writings as well as his earlier philosophical works, David Gouwens explores this philosopher’s religious and...
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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan’s theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject...
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Medieval Reading
This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary...
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La Mettrie
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and...
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Comte after Positivism
This book provides a detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte. Apart from offering an...
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The Sublime
This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic...
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The Annals of Tacitus: Book 3
Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus’ Annals were edited and annotated in two earlier volumes of this series (1972 and 1981) by the late F. R. D. Goodyear. Now...
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Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole were philosophers and theologians associated with Port-Royal Abbey, a centre of the Catholic Jansenist movement in...
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Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
This collection brings together thirteen essays by some of the most respected contemporary scholars of Schopenhauer’s aesthetics from a wide...
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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
This is the first book to explore the full range and import of Lacan’s theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject...
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History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts
These seminal essays introduce the reader to the interdisciplinary approach of New Testament scholarship which is affecting the way the Book of Acts...
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Anne Conway
Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her mastery of the intricate doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah, her authorship of a...
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Social Freedom: The Responsibility View
When is it correct to say that a person’s freedom is restricted? Can poverty constrain freedom? Can you constrain your own freedom, for instance...
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Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio
In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the...
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Schleiermacher: On Religion
A classic of modern religious thought, Schleiermacher’s On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is here presented in Richard Crouter’s...
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The Claims of Common Sense
The Claims of Common Sense investigates the importance of ideas developed by Cambridge philosophers between the World Wars for the social sciences...
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Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very...
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