Philosophie – Allgemeines

Ever since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the discipline’s disposal have grown more and more more sophisticated. This book provides a historical introdu …

Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeed …

This study of Weber“s sociology, written by an eminent authority, is a clear and illuminating discussion of the most important elements of Weber“s thinking. The book concentrates on four main eleme …

This is Volume XX of a series of twenty-two looking at 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1924, this includes part one of two of a collection of personal statements by contributors like …

Geoffrey Pilling’s treatment of this complex issue in political economy, first published in 1986, concentrates on a review of Keynes’ writings rather than the vast literature that has developed surro …

The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader is a collection of brand new papers by seventeen Marcuse scholars, which provides a comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Marcuse“s critical …

First published in 1967, The Transcendence of the Cave is the second in a series of Gifford Lectures on philosophical issues, and continues the themes of the first series entitled The Discipline …

John Locke (1632-1704) was a leading seventeenth-century philosopher and widely considered to be the first of the British Empiricists. One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, his major wo …

Economists increasingly recognise that engagement with social ontology – the study of the basic subject matter and constitution of social reality – can facilitate more relevant analysis. This growing …

Thomas Aquinas is the most widely read and arguably most influential of the medieval philosophers. He is famous for his impressive and coherent synthesis of Greek Philosophy and Christian Theology an …