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

New and Published Books

1. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. What is Enlightenment?

   By Samuel Fleischacker

   Series: Kant's Questions

   "Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosophy. The problems it addressed, such as the proper extent of individual freedom and the challenging...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

   Edited by G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Jill Kraye

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. What is the Human Being?

   By Patrick R. Frierson

   Series: Kant's Questions

   Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. It is also a question that Kant thought about deeply and returned to in many of his writings. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant’s philosophy of human nature - which is essential for...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding

   By E. J. Lowe

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   John Locke is widely acknowledged as the most important figure in the history of English philosophy and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is his greatest intellectual work, emphasising the importance of experience for the formation of knowledge. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   By Sandrine Berges

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Debates in Modern Philosophy

   Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses

   Edited by Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo

   Series: Key Debates in the History of Philosophy

   Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy. It presents 13 key interpretive debates to students, and ranges in coverage from Descartes' Meditations to Kant's Critique of Pure...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Self, Reason, and Freedom

   A New Light on Descartes' Metaphysics

   By Andrea Christofidou

   Freedom and its internal relation to reason is fundamental to Descartes’ philosophy in general, and to his Meditations on First Philosophy in particular. Without freedom his entire enquiry would not get off the ground, and without understanding the rôle of freedom in his work, we could not...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Kant and Non-Conceptual Content

   Edited by Dietmar Heidemann

   Conceptualism is the view that cognizers can have mental representations of the world only if they possess the adequate concepts by means of which they can specify what they represent. By contrast, non-conceptualism is the view that mental representations of the world do not necessarily presuppose...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Nothing

    On Sovereignty

    Edited by Clare Monagle, Dimitris Vardoulakis

    This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge