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A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
Wiley 2008; US$ 218.95A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to the most significant philosophers and philosophical concepts of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Provides a comprehensive guide to all the important modern philosophers and modern philosophical movements. Spans a wide range of philosophical areas and problems, including... more...
Spinoza's 'Ethics'
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00Nadler explains the doctrines and arguments of the Ethics and examines the philosophical background to Spinoza's thought and the dialogues in which Spinoza was engaged. He shows why Spinoza's endlessly fascinating ideas may have been so troubling to his contemporaries, as well as why they are still highly relevant today. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 30.00The French philosopher and theologian Nicolas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. He tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with religious Platonism. This is the first collection of essays to address Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically. more...
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008; US$ 7.99In the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city?s intellectual and cultural riches. He benefited, above all, from his friendships with... more...
A Book Forged in Hell
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 17.95When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author... more...
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 27.95In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark hair, a mustache, and heavy-lidded eyes, and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch... more...
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 4
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 49.99Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. - ;Oxford Studies in Early... more...
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 3
Clarendon Press 2006; US$ 84.99Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating... more...
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