Philosophy: History of Philosophy

By Matt Priselac

John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of human knowledge, opinion, and ignorance. The actual text of the Essay, in stark contrast, takes a long and seemingly meandering path before returning to that goal…

Hardback – 2016-03-01 
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Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

By Christopher Thacker

First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late…

Hardback – 2016-02-29 
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By Willard Moonan

First published in 1981. Martin Buber has been acclaimed as one of the major philosophical and religious thinkers of the twentieth century with his influence and achievements spanning numerous fields — however in each of these areas his work has also been severely criticised and his influence…

Hardback – 2016-02-29 
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By John H. Muirhead

Originally published in 1931, Muirhead’s study aims to challenge the view that Locke’s empiricism is the main philosophical thought to come out of England, suggesting that the Platonic tradition is much more prominent. These views are explored in detail in this text as well as touching on its…

Hardback – 2016-02-05 
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Routledge Revivals

By Jonathan Riley

In this major reinterpretation and contemporary defence of Mill's political philosophy, Riley offers a new reading of Mill's radical doctrine that is quite distinct from the prevalent and vague understanding of the term 'liberalism'. Based on the argument of On Liberty, the book begins by…

Hardback – 2016-01-01 
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

By Robert C. Scharff

In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts…

Paperback – 2015-12-23 
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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

By J.S. Mackenzie

J.S. Mackenzie surveys Western philosophy from Socrates to the New Realists in an uncomplicated and approachable style. Originally published in 1917, this text serves as a useful introduction to philosophy and well-summarises the key theories of great philosophers throughout the centuries and their…

Hardback – 2015-12-20 
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Edited by Kristin Gjesdal

Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy offers an engaging and in-depth introduction to the philosophical questions raised by this rich and far reaching period in the history of philosophy. Throughout thirty chapters (organized into fifteen sections), the volume surveys the intellectual…

Paperback – 2015-11-24
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Key Debates in the History of Philosophy

By Jason T Eberl

The Routledge Guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae introduces readers to a work which represents the pinnacle of medieval Western scholarship and which has inspired numerous commentaries, imitators, and opposing views. Outlining the main arguments Aquinas utilizes to support his conclusions on…

Paperback – 2015-11-17
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The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

Edited by Gabriele Gava, Robert Stern

Philosophers working within the pragmatist tradition have pictured their relation to Kant and Kantianism in very diverse terms: some have presented their work as an appropriation and development of Kantian ideas, some have argued that pragmatism is an approach in complete opposition to Kant. This…

Hardback – 2015-11-16
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

By Zed Adams

In On the Genealogy of Color, Zed Adams argues for a historicized approach to conceptual analysis, by exploring the relevance of the history of color science for contemporary philosophical debates about color realism. Adams contends that two prominent positions in these debates, Cartesian…

Hardback – 2015-11-10
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Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

By Rosine Jozef Perelberg

Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex examines the progressive construction of the notion of paternal function and its central relevance in psychoanalysis. The distinction between the murdered (narcissistic) father and the dead father is seen as providing a paradigm for the…

Paperback – 2015-11-06
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The New Library of Psychoanalysis