What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in "The Kingdom and the Garden", Giorgio Agamben uses it as a starting point for an investigation of human nature and t...

Karl Marx (1818-1883) – philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor – was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Je...

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

Because it laid the foundation for nearly all subsequent epistemologies, Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" has overshadowed his other interests in natural history and the life sciences, which scholars have long considered as separate from his...

Soren Kierkegaard's radical protestant philosophy of the individual – in which a person's leap of faith is favored over general ethics – has become a model for many contemporary political theorists. Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou have...

Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century – and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of importan...

Distinguished scholar and philosopher Tom Rockmore examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion – idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, he surveys and classifies some of its...

This landmark book is now reissued in a new edition that has been vastly rewritten and updated to respond to recent Kantian literature. It includes a new discussion of the Third Analogy, a greatly expanded discussion of Kant's "Paralogisms", and enti...

If Kant had never made the "critical turn" of 1773, would he be worth more than a paragraph in the history of philosophy? Most scholars think not. But in this pioneering book, John H. Zammito challenges that view by revealing a precritical Kant who w...

Currently fashionable among critics of enlightenment thought is the charge that Kant's ethics fails to provide an adequate account of character and its formation in moral and political life. G. Felicitas Munzel challenges this reading of Kant's thoug...