Human Science / Philosophy

Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato)

by A E Taylor

Plato's Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people's general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation...

Plato's Metaphysics of Education

by Samuel Scolnicov

This volume provides a comprehensive, learned and lively presentation of the whole range of Plato's thought but with a particular emphasis upon how Plato developed his metaphysics with a view to supporting...

Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato)

by J G Warry

This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference...

The Message of Plato (Rle: Plato): A Re-Interpretation of the Republic

by Edward J Urwick

Edward Urwick's original work draws upon Plato's best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato's teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to interpret...

Plato and His Contemporaries (RLE: Plato): A Study in Fourth Century Life and Thought

by G C Field

This book helps understand Plato's writings by describing the circumstances in which they were produced. The author begins with an account of Plato's life and development and a brief analysis of some of the...

Plato: The Midwife's Apprentice (RLE: Plato)

by I M Crombie

In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the...

An Examination of Plato's Doctrines (RLE: Plato): Volume 1 Plato on Man and Society

by I M Crombie

Ian Crombie's impressive volumes provide a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's doctrines. Volume 1 contains topics of more general interest and is mainly concerned with what Plato has to say in the fields...

An Examination of Plato's Doctrines Vol 2 (RLE: Plato): Volume 2 Plato on Knowledge and Reality

by I M Crombie

Ian Crombie's impressive volumes provide a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's doctrines. Volume 2 deals with more technical philosophical topics, including the theory of knowledge, philosophy of nature,...

Plato's Philebus (RLE: Plato)

by Donald Davidson

The Philebus is hard to reconcile with standard interpretations of Plato's philosophy and in this pioneering work Donald Davidson, seeks to take the Philebus at face value and to reassess Plato's late philosophy...

Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology

by Erika Fischer-Lichte & Benjamin Wihstutz

From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion,...

Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives

by Lisa Folkmarson Käll

Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences...

China on the Mind

by Christopher Bollas

Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are now converging...

The Dawn Of Universal History: Selected Essays From A Witness To The Twentieth Century

by Raymond Aron

"A must read for every opponent of totalitarianism and partisan of a chastened or mature liberalism."-- The New Criterion

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory

by George Sher

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. It includes sixty-six...

Plato and the English Romantics (RLE, Plato)

by E Douka Kabitoglou

This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary critical theory, especially hermeneutics and deconstruction,...

Creative Evolution

by , Henri Bergson

This early work on evolution is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains an explanation of Henri Bergman's proposal that the mechanisms of evolution are motivated by humanity's natural...

Concerning Being and Essence

by , St. Thomas Aquinas

This early work of philosophy is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains metaphysical ideas of being and essence by influential philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. This is a...

Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed

by Cornelis de Waal

Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, is a hugely important and influential thinker in the history of American philosophy. His philosophical interests were broad and he made significant contributions...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes

by S.A. Lloyd

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. His contributions to ethics, political philosophy and psychology in particular were hugely innovative...

20th Century Aesthetics: Towards A Theory of Feeling

by Mario Perniola & Massimo Verdicchio

Written by Mario Perniola, one of Italy's leading contemporary thinkers, and available in English for the first time, this is a new account of Continental aesthetic thought in the 20th Century.

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