History of Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Plato's Dialectic on Woman

   Equal, Therefore Inferior

   By Elena Blair

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

   Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

   By Frances Nethercott

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. French Liberalism in the 19th Century

   An Anthology

   Edited by Robert Leroux, David Hart

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Political and economic liberalism has generally been considered to be of marginal import in France, but at an intellectual level, it is a different story. An exploration of the history of French economic thought shows how a rich intellectual tradition developed during the nineteenth century, which...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Pierre Bayle's Cartesian Metaphysics

   Rediscovering Early Modern Philosophy

   By Todd Ryan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   In his magnum opus, the Historical and Critical Dictionary, Pierre Bayle offered a series of brilliant criticisms of the major philosophical and theological systems of the 17th Century. Although officially skeptical concerning the attempt to provide a definitive account of the truths of metaphysics...

   Published April 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe

   Edited by Costica Bradatan

   Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe charts the intellectual landscape of twentieth century East-Central Europe under the unifying theme of 'precariousness' as a mode of historical existence. Caught between empires, often marked by catastrophic historic events and grand...

   Published March 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Exceedingly Nietzsche

   Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation

   Edited by David Farrell Krell, David Wood

   Originally published in 1988, this collection brings together a wide range of original readings on Friedrich Nietzsche, reflecting many aspects of Neitzsche in contemporary philosophy, literature and the social sciences. The Nietzsche these contributors discuss is the Nietzsche who exceeds any...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Authenticity and Learning

   Nietzsche's Educational Philosophy

   By David Cooper

   David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Russell vs. Meinong

   The Legacy of "On Denoting"

   Edited by Nicholas Griffin, Dale Jacquette

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience

   By Marc Djaballah

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on the...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Nietzsche-Arg Philosophers

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge