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An important Marxist work, Prison Notebooks (1948) argues that we must understand societies both in terms of their economic relationships and their cultural beliefs.
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Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, challenged conventional thinking about democracy when it first appeared and is still cited today for its in-depth analysis of what makes a successful democracy.
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Before the publication of Nature’s Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, following separate lines of development and maturity.
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Hamid Dabashi suggests that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9 would not have taken place had it not been for the influential ideas set out by eight Iranian Islamic thinkers in the decades before it occurred.
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Written amid the political fallout and `war on terror’ following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York—Dabashi’s adopted city—in 2001, Iran: A People Interrupted offers an insider’s insight into the Iranian psyche.
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First published in 1790, Burke’s Reflections rejects the ideas that had inspired radical... Læs mere
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More than 2,500 years after it was written, Symposium remains a key text for philosophers, historians, writers, artists and politicians. Plato imagines seven important historical figures, including the philosopher Socrates, debating eros (human love and desire).
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No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast who systematically... Læs mere
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Considered the father of the philosophical movement known as Christian existentialism, which focuses on the living human being, Kierkegaard takes readers on a journey from the human self, its spirit, despair and sin, through to faith in this major 1849 work.
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Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is... Læs mere
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Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two... Læs mere
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Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind... Læs mere