Modern Philosophy (16th Century-18th Century) Books

New and Published Books

1. Tensions of Modernity

   Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment

   By Daniel R. Brunstetter

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy

   By David Sepkoski

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The German Mittelweg

   Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant

   By Michael G. Lee

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published several garden theory texts. These works are unique in that a close-knit group of philosophers had never before--and has not since--produced so many works on the topic of garden design. In essence, this cohort sought to imbue...

   Published May 14th 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. The Ethics of Need

   Agency, Dignity, and Obligation

   By Sarah Clark Miller

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Kant and Education

   Interpretations and Commentary

   Edited by Klas Roth, Chris Surprenant

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world today...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

   Edited by John M. Robertson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1905, this reissued edition of The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon is an edited collection based upon the definitive seven volume edition of 1857, translated and prefaced by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding. Of great historical, philosophical and scientific interest,...

   Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations

   By Cecilia Wee

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’s Meditations approaches Descartes’s Meditations as an intellectual journey, wherein Descartes’s views develop and change as he makes new discoveries about self, God and matter. The first book to focus closely on Descartes’s notion of material falsity, it...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
9. Hobbes

   Morals and Politics

   By D D Raphael, D. D. Raphael

   First published in 1977 this book is both expository and critical and concentres on Hobbes' ethical and political theory, but also considering the effect on these of his metaphysics. Updated, with a new preface especially for this re-issue, which brings together recent scholarship on Hobbes, a...

   Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge
10. Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion

    Descartes and Beyond

    Edited by Peter Anstey, Dana Jalobeanu

    Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

    This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the...

    Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge