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Freedom and Ground

A new interpretation of Schelling's 1809 treatise on freedom, demonstrating how the work is an answer to the problem of ground.

Myth and Authority

Argues that Giambattista Vico's early modern account of Roman mythology was a sophisticated attempt to present an epistemological and political critique of the aristocratic way of conceiving the world.

Heidegger and the Human

Original and critical essays by leading scholars on the question of the human in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

The Future of the World Is Open

Conversations with prominent Italian feminist thinkers Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavaero, as well as three essays - appearing in English for the first time - by author, journalist, and renown political figure Rossana Rossanda.

Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education

The first book-length study of Leo Strauss' understanding of the relation between modern democracy, technology, and liberal education.

The Humanistic Background of Science

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.

D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring

A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind.

John Dewey's Later Logical Theory

A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.

Bergson and History

Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.

The Art of Jihad

Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.

Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy

Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.

Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement

Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.

The Politics of Paradigms

Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

With a Diamond in My Shoe

The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.

Atomistic Intuitions

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

Plato and the Body

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.

The Hand of the Engraver

A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.

Hegel and Right

By Philip J. Kain
Subjects: Philosophy

An especially accessible introduction to Hegel’s moral and political philosophy.

Another white Man's Burden

Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.

Statement on the True Relationship of the Philosophy of Nature to the Revised Fichtean Doctrine

Schelling's 1806 polemic against Fichte, and his last major work on the philosophy of nature.

Another Mind-Body Problem

Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy’s mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.

Platonic Mysticism

Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how mysticism helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.

Lessing and the Enlightenment

A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.

The Metaphysics of the Pythagorean Theorem

Explores Thales’s speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams.

Philosophy, History, and Tyranny

The first comprehensive examination of the debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on the subject of philosophy and tyranny.

Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers.

Power

Deepens our understanding of power through a survey of how its dynamics have been understood from ancient times to the present.

Leo Strauss, Philosopher

European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.

Kant and Aristotle

By Marco Sgarbi
Subjects: Philosophy

A historical and philosophical reassessment of the impact of Aristotle and early-modern Aristotelianism on the development of Kant’s transcendental philosophy.

Contingency and Commitment

Offers the first comprehensive survey of Mexican existentialism to appear in English.

Existence and Heritage

Explores overlapping concerns and themes in African(a) and continental philosophy.

Lectures on the Theory of Ethics (1812)

Lectures from the late period of Fichte’s career, never before available in English.

Thomas Hobbes

By Otfried Höffe
Translated by Nicholas Walker
Subjects: Philosophy

An introduction to Thomas Hobbes as a systematic and not merely political philosopher.

Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy

Argues for revitalizing the place of honor in contemporary life.

Complicated Presence

A synthetic assessment of Heidegger’s entire path of thinking as a radical attempt to thematize and rethink the fundamental notions of unity dominating the Western metaphysical tradition.

Sparks Will Fly

Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.

Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History

Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.

Wonder

By Sophia Vasalou
Subjects: History

Synthesizes the most important recent work on wonder and brings a number of disciplines into conversation.

John Dewey's Earlier Logical Theory

Analysis of Dewey's pre-1916 work on logic and its relationship to his better-known 1938 book on the topic.

Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy

By Lydia B. Amir
Subjects: Philosophy

An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications.

Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences

Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

Kant and the Concept of Race

Edited and translated by Jon M. Mikkelsen
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries.

Goodbye, Kant!

A penetrating and freewheeling evaluation of Kant's magnum opus.

Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

Hegel on Religion and Politics

Edited by Angelica Nuzzo
Subjects: Philosophy

Critical essays on Hegel's views concerning the relationship between religion and politics.

Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

Essays on Beauvoir’s influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.

Essential Difference

Proposes a new way of understanding the nature of metaphysics, focusing on nonreductionist emergence theory, both in ancient and modern philosophy, as well as in contemporary philosophy of science.

The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling

Correspondence and texts by Fichte and Schelling illuminate their thought and the trajectory of their philosophical falling out.

The Closed Commercial State

Critical scholarly edition of J. G. Fichte's Closed Commercial State

Archaeology and the Origins of Philosophy

Detailed study of how Anaximander’s cosmological and philosophical conceptions were affected by architectural technologies.

Methodologies of Comparative Philosophy

A much-needed consideration of methodology in comparative philosophy.

The Lockean Commonwealth

Timely reappraisal of John Locke’s thoughts on the clash between executive emergency power and the importance of the rule of law.

John Dee's Occultism

A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the towering figures of Renaissance mysticism.

Tragedy and Citizenship

A study of attitudes towards tragedy in both democratic and nondemocractic political theory.

John Dewey in China

Shows how John Dewey’s visit to China from 1919 to 1921 influenced his social and political thought.

Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology

The first comprehensive examination in English of Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.

Troubling Play

By Kelsey Wood
Subjects: Philosophy

This new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides emphasizes its treatment of time and language—insights especially relevant for those working in the Continental tradition.

Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment

Interprets Kant's conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason.

Heidegger and Aristotle

Interprets Heidegger’s phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s philosophy.

The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy

Argues that there are original positions to be found in the work of Latin American philosophers.

Madness and Death in Philosophy

Demonstrates the significance of the concepts of madness and death for the history of philosophy.

The Social Authority of Reason

Explores the social ramifications of Kant's concept of radical evil.

Sojourns

Heidegger's philosophical journal, written during his first visit to Greece in 1962, and appearing here in English for the first time.

Hegel and the Other

A new, highly accessible commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

The Science of Knowing

The first English translation of Fichte’s second set of 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.

The Gathering of Reason

This second edition of the author's classic study of Kant's First Critique includes a new preface and extensive afterword.

Questioning Platonism

Explores interpretations of Plato by Heidegger, Derrida, Irigaray, Cavarero, and Gadamer.

Panpsychism

Edited by D. S. Clarke
Introduction by D. S. Clarke
Subjects: Philosophy

An anthology of readings in panpsychism, spanning two millennia.

The Ethics of Ontology

A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle.

Hegel and Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Twenty-three of the most important writings by contemporary continental thinkers on the work of Hegel.

Kant on Causation

An in-depth examination of the nature of Kant's causal principle.

Hegel's History of Philosophy

Top scholars address Hegel’s History of Philosophy.

The Limits of Doubt

By Petr Lom
Subjects: Philosophy

Shows how different forms of skepticism can lead to remarkably different moral and political implications.

Descartes and Husserl

Presents the first book-length study of the profound influence of Descartes' philosophy on Husserl's project for phenomenology.

Ethical Vegetarianism

Edited by Kerry S. Walters & Lisa Portmess
Subjects: Philosophy

For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides ...

Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophy in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries has traditionally been characterized as being primarily concerned with epistemological issues. This book is not intended to overturn this characterization ...