Two major interpretations of Mendelssohn's achievements have attained prominence in recent works. One interpretation, defended most recently by David Sorkin and Edward Breuer, casts Mendelssohn as a J ... Read more
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Fenelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, and yet today even s ... Read more
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In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argued that human reason is inherently conflicted, because it demands a form of unconditioned knowledge which is unattainable; his solution to this conflict of rea ... Read more
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Foucault is a widely influential philosopher and writer whose opinions are still relevant today
A major influence on Queer Theory, Foucault also wrote about penal systems, power, knowledge, and i ... Read more
Provides a wide-ranging but non-systematic treatment of some highlights of Foucault's life and thought
New edition includes feminist criticisms of Foucault's apparently sexist treatment of the Jo ... Read more
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing ... Read more
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The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations fo ... Read more
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The first full biography of one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century
Captures and reflects upon all aspects of his short life and extensive work
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Eva Picardi (1948-2017) was one of the most influential Italian analytic philosophers of her generation. She taught for forty years at the University of Bologna, raising three generations of students. ... Read more
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John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language. Frege's innovations provided the basis of modern logic, but his influence in other areas should not b ... Read more
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