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Feminist History of Philosophy: the Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought by Eileen O'Neill (Editor); Marcy P. Lascano (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030181178
Publication Date: 2019-07-08
This collection of essays evaluates past women's published philosophical work and introduces readers to newly recovered female figures; the collection also makes contributions to the history of the philosophy of gender, and to the history of feminist social and political philosophy.
Cosmo-Nationalism by Oisín Keohane
ISBN: 1474431151
Publication Date: 2018-02-08
Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisín Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation.
Logoi and Muthoi : Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and Literature by Wians, William Robert
ISBN: 1438474903
Publication Date: 2019
Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle. - Google Books
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza; George Eliot (Translator); Clare Carlisle (Editor)
ISBN: 9780691197043
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical work. This edition makes Eliot's translation of the Ethics available to today's readers while also tracing Eliot's deep engagement with Spinoza both before and after she wrote the novels that established her as one of English literature's greatest writers.

Philosophy E-texts

The InteLex Past Masters database contains many classic works of philosophy, either in the original or English translations. Authors include Aristotle, Kant and Hegel.

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Digitized primary and source documents by and about great historical figures from Saint Thomas Aquinas to Yeats. Covering figures in philosophy, theology, politics and literature. Full text.

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