The allegiance of Thomas Hobbes

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution. It rejects the prevailing understanding of Hobbes as a consistent, if idiosyncratic, royalist, and vindicates the contemporaneous view that the publication of Leviathan marked Hobbes's ...

Spinoza's ethics

a reader's guide

This is a comprehensive and thorough guide to Spinoza's masterpiece of Rationalist thought. "The Ethics" is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body ...

Cogito, Ergo Sum

the life of René Descartes

Rene Descartes is the philosophical architect of our modern world. In metaphysics, he established the view that mind and body are distinct substances, a position foundational for any belief that the human soul is immortal. In mathematics, he invented analytic geometry - the basis of calculus ...

Spinoza and the stoics

power, politics and the passions

This important new book examines Spinoza's moral and political philosophy. Specifically, it considers Spinoza's engagement with the themes of Stoicism and his significant contribution to the origins of the European Enlightenment. Firmin DeBrabander explores the problematic view of the relationship between ethics and ...

Estudios sobre Fichte y otros escritos

Antología de textos filosóficos de Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), fundamentalmente conocido por su obra literaria, que comprende el extenso 'Estudios sobre Fichte', que da nombre al libro; la colección de fragmentos 'Polen'; la colección de fragmentos de temática política 'Fe y amor'; el discurso 'La ...

L'autorité des maîtres

scolastique, normes et société au XIIIe siècle

La scolastique a mauvaise réputation. C'est pourtant dans l'université médiévale et en particulier à la faculté de théologie de Paris, au XIIIe siècle, que se forgèrent et s'échangèrent les opinions savantes sur des questions d'actualité fort concrètes, qui intéressaient la société ...

Locke

a biography

This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Roger Woolhouse interweaves an ...

El gobierno de los afectos en Baruj Spinoza

Durante mucho tiempo los estudios sobre Baruj Spinoza se centraron sólo en sus textos más racionalistas haciendo de su pensamiento un ejemplo estilizado de sistema geométrico. Sin embargo, recientes investigaciones han puesto en primer plano aspectos de su filosofía que habían sido olvidados o injustamente ...

Locke

Thought by many to be the quintessential philosopher of the modern age, Locke's ideas are the key to understanding society and politics in the West. This work explores Locke's works and looks critically at his legacy. In this, it argues, we find the ...

Hobbes

a guide for the perplexed

"Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...

Hegel's critique of metaphysics

Hegel's Science of Logic has received less attention than his Phenomenology of Spirit, but Hegel himself took it to be his highest philosophical achievement and the backbone of his system. The present book focuses on this most difficult of Hegel's published works. Beatrice ...

Rousseau

a guide for the perplexed

"Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...

El hereje y el cortesano

Spinoza, Leibniz, y el destino de Dios en el Mundo Moderno

El autor nos ofrece un interesante retrato de dos de los más importantes y fascinantes pensadores de la Era Moderna y de su compleja relación. El autor no sólo hace sus ideas perfectamente accesibles, sino que lleva a cabo un brillante trabajo iluminando para el ...

Lecturas de filosofía moderna y contemporánea

En los más de veinte años transcurridos desde la muerte de Manuel Sacristán, la huella de su labor intelectual y de su compromiso personal no ha dejado de acrecentarse. No en balde se trata de uno de los filósofos españoles más destacados de la segunda ...

Retórica y artes de memoria en el humanismo renacentista

(Jorge de Trebisonda, Pedro de Ravena y Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas)

La presente obra consta de dos partes fundamentales. En la primera de ellas se analizan diferentes aspectos de la doctrina contenida en las Artes memoriae del Renacimiento, atendiendo a sus fuentes clásicas y advirtiendo la filiación retórica de las mismas. La segunda parte incluye la ...

Leibniz

a guide for the perplexed

Gottfried Leibniz is one of the most influential and important European philosophers of the early modern period. Although he wrote no single comprehensive explanation of his philosophy, his contributions to areas of philosophical thought range from mathematics to cultural exchange. However, his ideas often seem ...

Spinoza

a guide for the perplexed

Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...

Julia, o la nueva Eloísa

"Julia o la Nueva Eloísa#, obra epistolar publicada en 1760 que gozó de un enorme éxito en su época, nos sumerge en un análisis profundo de los sentimientos humanos: la pasión amorosa y el amor filial, el deber, el honor y la virtud, la amistad ...

Hume

a guide for the perplexed

Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...

Kant

a guide for the perplexed

Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...