"Sartor Resartus is the 'sunniest and most philosophical' of Carlyle's works."—Henry David Thoreau "The way to test how much [Carlyle] has left us all were to consider, or try to consider, for the moment the array of British thought, the ...

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy.

Presents an introduction to the ideas of major Western philosophers, including Aristotle, Augustine, John Locke, and Karl Marx.

This is a systematic account of the wide-ranging philosophical ideas of Leibniz. The author, a highly respected analytical philosopher, has brought his own abilities to bear on the unwieldy and inaccessible corpus of Leibniz's work.

A collection of three interviews granted by Derrida that serve to clarify his thought and writing.

This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions.

"A thrilling narrative of scientific discovery that rewrites the intellectual history of the middle ages"--Back cover.

First published in 1962, this landmark book is one of the first to dispute the deep-seated assumption that dialectics provides the only possible basis for radical thought.

Translated by Krzysztof Filjalkowski and Michael Richardson Winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt for Biography Georges Bataille (1897–1962), philosopher, writer and founder of the influential literary review Critique, had an enormous impact ...