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 ...

Descartes vivo

ejercicios de hermenéutica cartesiana

Obra colectiva de interrogación y escucha de la obra de Descartes más allá de los tópicos habituales. Descartes vivo aborda diferentes aspectos relacionados con una «hermenéutica cartesiana»; aporta una relectura de la obra de Descartes y, al mismo tiempo, una explicitación de la teoría y ...

Understanding german idealism

"Understanding German Idealism" provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged in 1781, with the publication of Kant's monumental "Critique of Pure Reason", and ended fifty years later, with Hegel's death. The thinkers of this period, and the themes they developed ...

Immanuel Kant

vigencia de la filosofía crítica

La vigencia de la filosofía crítica se explica por su carácter paradójicamente inconcluso. La crítica de la razón, de la que Kant decía que no podía ser sino una, y en la que de ningún modo es permitido opinar, nunca estará acabada porque en el ...

The Cambridge companion to Hobbes's Leviathan

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and ...

The Cambridge companion to Renaissance Philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and ...

El discurso del método

El Discurso, texto eminentemente filosófico, marca el punto de ruptura con el mundo conceptual del medievo, dominado por la escolástica. Al mismo tiempo, y junto a su valor fundamental, es también una crónica del pensamiento, un libro de memorias, una elaboración científica en la que ...