Exploring the imaginative habits of thought of early modern thinkers—including Shakespeare, Milton, Sidney, Bacon, Spenser, and Cavendish—Possible Knowledge enacts a history of ideas that centers literary studies and suggests that what we term a history of science might ultimately be a history of the imagination.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers. Utilizing newly available archival sources, Martin Woessner shows how a philosophy student searching for meaning became the most talked-about director of his generation.
Humanism and Intellectual Life in the Early Twentieth Century
Paul Murphy
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512830217
Pub Date: January 2027
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Many American intellectuals hoped humanism would be the source of shared values in a secular age. The Dividing of the American Mind examines the New Humanists and religious humanists, both of whom attempted to show how. Rather than creating a unified national mind, they helped divide it more than ever.
In Instrumental Indians, Matthew Villeneuve explores how John Dewey, the nation’s most prominent philosopher of democracy and education, articulated his ideas in part by invoking imaginary Indians while utterly failing to account for his Indigenous contemporaries’ struggles to achieve self-determination in schools.
Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Jane F. Thrailkill
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829624
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
This collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—lights up their shared intellectual project: showing how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risks. Philosophical Siblings offers a fresh way of thinking about literary encounters, one that approaches even the most iconic texts with serious lightness.
Property damage constitutes a commonplace feature of global political protest. How then to evaluate it? Rejecting the tendency to conflate it with political violence, William E. Scheuerman grapples with the question of when, if ever, politically motivated property harms are justifiable, drawing on a wide range of timely real-world examples.
The Social Philosophers argues that Western social philosophy emerged during the disintegration of the ancient Greek and Roman communities. Robert Nisbet contends that Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality take on their distinctive character as aspects of humankind’s search for community.
In Xenophon's Socratic Education, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, Dustin Sebell shows how Socrates ascended, with his students in tow, from moral or political opinion to knowledge.
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
Brendon Westler
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826005
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
In The Revolting Masses, Brendon Westler argues that we need to look beyond José Ortega y Gasset’s arguments about populism and democracy in his most famous work to recover the philosopher’s expansive political outlook and to identify his valuable contributions to the history and advancement of liberalism.
The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Judith N. Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law.
