Key Philosophical Writings

DescriptionJean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political t...

Reducere. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philo...

Philosophy: Basic Readings is an acclaimed anthology that brings philosophy to life with a rich and stimulating selection of philosophical writings...

This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early c...

Reducere. Knowledge of key philosophic terms or concepts is vital to the understanding of many issues in Christian theology. Diogenes Allen's book Philosophy...

The first entirely new translation of Galileo's major writings for more than fifty years, this marvelous volume includes selections from all of his...

Reducere. The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'mode...

DescriptionThough most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Ch telet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own righ...

John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. ...

The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating ...

Widely regarded as the founder of the Islamic philosophical tradition, and as the single greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle by his su...

The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth-century p...

Reducere. The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leadi...

Reducere. Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical "pos...

Reducere. Quickly Find and Understand Key Theological TermsChristianity is a faith built upon the Word and understood through words, both written and spoken,...

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collect...

Reducere. First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of co...

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and eco...

DescriptionThe Philosophy of Death Reader presents a collection of classic readings from across the centuries and the continents. Organised around ...

The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinking The rapid pace of emerging technologies...

Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity...

Reducere. This book explores the work of the religious philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) by focusing on the way he develops his own expansive adaptatio...

Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geni...

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this ph...

Reducere. In Force, Drive, Desire, Rudolf Bernet develops a philosophical foundation of psychoanalysis focusing on human drives. Rather than simply drawing u...

Reducere. Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was a monk and theologian whose combustive historical era, committed doctrinal reflection, and loud and influential...

Reducere. "Paradigms for a Metaphorology may be read as a kind of beginner's guide to Blumenberg, a programmatic introduction to his vast and multifaceted oe...

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true ha...