From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an accessible and fascinating biography of Moses Mendelssohn, the seminal Jewish philosopher "A fascinating portrait of an important Enlightenment figure."—Library Journal The “German Socrates ...

This volume contains the first critical edition and a complete English translation of the well-known correspondence conducted by the fourteenth-century 'sceptic' author, Nicholas of Autrecourt, with Bernard of Arezzo and a Master Giles.

This remarkable collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciations of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world, sometimes both.

In this comprehensive introduction, Julian Young covers the major aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy. He discusses the central areas of Schopenhauer's metaphysics, fundamental to understanding his work as a whole.

This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought.

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

Ce dictionnaire est consacré aux philosophes et aux témoins importants de la tradition philosophique grecque et romaine, des Présocratiques aux derniers Néoplatoniciens.

Using works written over the course of 1,500 years, considers philosophers’ autobiographies as a genre of philosophical writing.

Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an influence on the later history of philosophy, that it has not been possible to confine him to one volume.

A professor embarks on a search for the best of possible worlds. He visits Militaria, Communitaria, Utilitaria and Libertaria and concludes all of them are false Utopias. A spoof on the political theories of our time. A first novel.