HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
  
Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
  
Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
  
Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Romanticism (1785-1830):
     
Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900)
:
     
'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
  
Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
     
Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic

   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
  
Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

HISTORY OF THOUGHT


PERIODS

PHILOSOPHY /  THEORY

LITERATURE, LITERARY THEORY & RHETORIC

FEMINIST THEORY

POST-COLONIAL THEORY

c.700 BCE - c.350 CE

Ancient:

Pre-Socratics (c.650 - c.500 BCE)

Classical

Ancient (Classical)

Ancient (Classical)

Sophists (c.500 - c.300 BCE)

Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Thought (c.300 BCE - c.150 CE)

c.300-c.1400

Medieval

Medieval

Medieval

Medieval

c.1400-c.1600

Renaissance

Renaissance

Renaissance

Renaissance

c.1600-c.1785

Early Modern
(17th & 18th Century)

Neo-Classical

Early Modern

Early Modern

c.1785-c.1890

Nineteenth Century:

Romanticism (c.1785-c.1830)

Romantic
(c.1785-c.1830)

19th Century

19th Century

Mid-Century and Fin de Siecle
(c.1830-c.1890)

Mid-Century and Fin de Siecle
(c.1830-c.1890)

c.1890-Present

Twentieth Century:

Analytic Philosophy

Twentieth Century

Feminist Theory:

Analytic Feminist Philosophy

Post-colonial Theory:

Analytic Post-colonial Philosophy

Continental Philosophy:

Idealism

Continental Feminist Theory

Continental Post-colonial Theory

Marxism

Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics

Psychoanalysis

(Post-)Structuralisms:

Derridean Deconstruction

Deleuzean Theory

Dialogism (the Bakhtinian Circle)

Foucauldian Discourse Theory

Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism

Structuralist Marxism

Structuralist (Lacanian) Psychoanalysis

Modernism, Myth Criticism, and New Criticism

Modernist, Mythological and New Critical Feminist Theory

Modernist, Mythological and New Critical Post-colonial Theory

Pragmatism

Pragmatist Feminist Theory

Pragmatist Post-colonial / African American Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • Transcendental Philosophy: its History and Nature, Annual Conference, British Society for the History of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, April 14-17

2008:

  • Causation: 1500-2000, Annual Conference, British Society for the History of Philosophy, University of York, March 25-27

2007:

  • Cultural Encounters and Historical Practice in the Context of European Colonial Expansion after 1500, Carlsberg Akademi, Copenhagen, November 7-9

2006:

2005:

  • Literature, Philosophy and Commerce in Europe and the Americas, 1750-1900, Stanford University, April 7-9
  • Rethinking Secularisation, International Society for Intellectual History, University of California, Davis, March 31-April 3

2004:

  • Theories of Matter and Mind in the Seventeenth Century, Foundations of Modern Thought: Princeton / Arad Seminar in Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Research Center in conjunction with University of Bucharest and Vasile Goldis University, Arad, Romania, September 6-12

  • Uses and Abuses of Reason, International Society for Intellectual History, University of Helsinki, July 27-31

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

  • Turning Points, International Society for Intellectual History, University of Chicago, September 21-24

1999:

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1998:

1997:

COURSES

JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Baird, Forrest, and Walter Kaufmann, eds.  Philosophic Classics.  6 Vols.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994-2003.

      • From Plato to Derrida.  Combined Edition.  2003.
      • Twentieth-Century Philosophy.  Vol. 5.  2003.
      • Nineteenth-Century Philosophy.  Vol. 4.  2003.
      • Modern Philosophy.  Vol. 3.  2003.

      • Medieval Philosophy.  Vol. 2.  2003.

      • Ancient Philosophy.  Vol. 1.  1994..

    • Baumer, Franklin, ed.  Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present.  New York: Knopf, 1952.  4th Ed.: New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.
    • Beardsley, Monroe, ed.  The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche.  New York: Modern Library, 1960.  Rpt. Random House, 2002.
    • Burt, Edwin Arthur, ed.  The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill.  New York: Random House, 1977.
    • Cahn, Steven M., ed.  Classics of Western Philosophy.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1977.
    • Ellmann, Richard, and Charles Feidelson, eds.  The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1965.
    • Margolis, Joseph, ed.  An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry: Contemporary and Classical Sources.  New York: Random House, 1978.  
    • Pojman, Louis P., ed.  Classics of Philosophy.  3 Vols.  Oxford: OUP.

      • Combined Edition.  2002.

      • The Twentieth Century.  Vol. 3.  2000.

      • Modern and Contemporary.  Vol. 2.  1998.

      • Ancient and Medieval.  Vol. 1.  1998.

    • Feminist Thought:

      • Dykeman, Therese B., ed. The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers from the First to the Twentieth Century.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1999.

      • Schneir, Miriam, ed.  Feminism: the Essential Historical Writings.  New York: Vintage, 1992.

    • Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives:

      •  

  • Selected Individual Works:

    •  

    • Feminist Thought:

    • Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives:

      •  

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Baumer, Franklin L., ed.  Intellectual Movements in Modern European History.  New York: Macmillan, 1965.
    • Boas, George, et al., eds.  Studies in Intellectual History.  1953.

    • Cambridge History of Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP.
      • Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1945.  Ed. Thomas Baldwin.  2003.
      • Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.  Ed. Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers.  1998.
      • The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy.  Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye.  1988. 
      • Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100–1600.  Ed. Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, Jan Pinborg, and Eleonore Stump.  1988.
      • Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy.  Ed. D. M. Armstrong.  1967.
      • Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy.  Ed. Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, and Malcolm Schofield.  1999.
    • Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, ed.  New Dictionary of the History of Ideas.  6 Vols.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, an imprint of Thomson Gale, 2004 .

    • Kenny, Anthony, ed.  Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.
    • Marino, Joseph, and Melinda W. Schlitt, eds.  Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History: Essays in Honor of Nancy S. Struever.  2001.

    • Parkinson, G. H. R., and S. G. Shanker, eds.  Routledge History of Philosophy.  10 Vols.  London: Routledge, 1993-1997.
      • Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge, and Value in the Twentieth Century.  Vol. 10.  Ed. John V. Canfield.  1997.
      • Philosophy of Science, Logic, and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century.  Vol. 9.  Ed. Stuart G. Shanker.  1996.
      • Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy.  Vol. 8.  Ed.  Richard Kearney.  1994.
      • The Nineteenth Century.  Vol. 7.  Ed. C. L. Ten.  1994.
      • The Age of German Idealism.  Vol. 6.  Ed. Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins.  1993.
      • British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment.  Vol. 5.  Ed. Stuart Brown.  1996.
      • The Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism.  Vol. 4.  Ed. G. H. R. Parkinson.  1993.
      • Medieval Philosophy.  Vol. 3.  Ed. John Marenbon.  1998.
      • From Aristotle to Augustine.  Vol. 2.  Ed. David Furley.  1999.
      • From the Beginning to Plato.  Vol. 1.  Ed. C. C. W. Taylor.  1997.
    • Popkin, Richard, ed.  The Pimlico History of Western Philosophy.  New York: Columbia UP, 1998.

    • Struever, Nancy, ed.  Language and the History of Thought.  Rochester: U of Rochester P, 1995.

    • Wiener, Philip P., ed.  The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas.  5 Vols.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74.

    • Feminist Thought:
      • Bridenthal, Renate, et al., eds. Becoming Visible: Women in European History
      • Dykeman, Therese Boos.  American Women Philosophers, 1650-1930:  Six Exemplary Thinkers.  Edward Mellen Press, 1993
      • Lloyd, Genevieve, ed.  Feminism and History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.

      • McAlister, Linda Lopez, ed.  Hypatia’s Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.

      • Muir, Edwin, et al., eds.  Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective
      •  
      • Osborne, Martha Lee, ed.  Women in Western Thought.  New York: Random House, 1979.

      • Waithe, Mary Ellen, ed.  A History of Women Philosophers.  4 Vols.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1987-1994.
    • Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives:

      •  

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Baumer, Franklin L.  Modern European Thought: Continuity and Change in Ideas, 1600-1950.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
    • Copleston, Frederick C.  A History of Philosophy.  9 Vols.  London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne; New York: Newman, 1946-1974.  Rpt. New York: Doubleday, 1993-1994.
      • Modern Philosophy: from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss.  Vol. 9.  1974. 
      • Modern Philosophy: Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America.  Vol. 8.  1966.
      • Modern Philosophy: from the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.  Vol. 7.  1963.
      • Modern Philosophy: from the French Enlightenment to Kant.  Vol. 6.  1960.
      • Modern Philosophy: the British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume.  Vol. 5.  1959.
      • Modern Philosophy: from Descartes to Leibniz.  Vol. 4.  1960. 
      • Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.  Vol. 3.  1953.
      • Medieval Philosophy.  Vol. 2.  1950.
      • Greece and Rome.  Vol. 1.  1946.
    • Durant, Will.  The Story of Philosophy: the Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926.
    • Frost, S. E.  Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers.  New York: Anchor, 1962.
    • Gillespie, Michael Allen.  The Theological Origins of Modernity.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008.

    • Gottlieb, Anthony.  The Dream of Reason: a History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance.  New York: Norton, 2000.

    • Harré, Rom.  One Thousand Years of Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
    • Hunnex, Milton D.  Chronological and Thematic Charts of Philosophies and Philosophers.  Zondervan, 1986.

    • Jones, W. T.  A History of Western Philosophy.  5 Vols.  London: Harcourt, 1969.

      • The Twentieth Century of Quine and Derrida.  Vol. 5.

      • Kant and the Nineteenth Century.  Vol. 4.

      • Hobbes to Hume.  Vol. 3.

      • The Medieval Mind.  Vol. 2.

      • The Classical Mind.  Vol. 1.

    • Kenny, Anthony.  A Brief History of Western Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
    • Kenny, Anthony.  A New History of Western Philosophy.  4 Vols.  Oxford: OUP.
      • Philosophy in the Modern World.  Vol. 4.  2007.
      • The Rise of Modern Philosophy.  Vol. 3.  2006.
      • Medieval Philosophy.  Vol. 2.  2005.
      • Ancient Philosophy.  Vol. 1.  2004.
    • Lavine, T. Z.  From Socrates to Sartre: the Philosophic Quest.  New York: Bantam, 1985.
    • Magee, Bryan.  The Story of Philosophy.   London: Dorling Kindersley, 1998.
    • Magee, Bryan.  The Great Philosophers: an Introduction to Western Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1987.
    • Matson, Wallace I.  A New History of Philosophy.  2 Vols. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999.

      • From Descartes to Rawls.  Vol. 2. 

      • From Thales to Ockham.  Vol. 1.

    • Melchert, Norman.  The Great Conversation: a Historical Introduction to Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1991.

    • Neiman, Susan.  Evil in Modern Thought: an Alternative History of Philosophy.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002.

    • Oxford History of Western Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1988-2001.
      • Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945.  Vol. 8.  By Thomas Baldwin.  2001.

      • Continental Philosophy since 1750: the Rise and Fall of the Self.  Vol. 7.  By Robert C.  Solomon.  1988.

      • English-Language Philosophy 1750-1945.  Vol. 6.  By John Skorupski.  1993.
      • The Empiricists.  Vol. 5.  By R. S. Woolhouse.  1988.
      • The Rationalists.  Vol. 4.  By John Cottingham.  1988.
      • Renaissance Philosophy.  Vol. 3.  By Brian P. Copenhaver and Charles B. Schmitt.  1992.
      • Medieval Thought.  Vol. 2.  By David Luscombe.  1997.
      • Classical Thought.  Vol. 1.  By Ed. Terence Irwin.  1989.
    • Russell, Bertrand.  History of Western Philosophy.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945.
    • Scruton, Roger.  From Descartes to Wittgenstein.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. 
      • A Short History of Modern Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1995.  Rpt. 2002.
    • Solomon, Robert, and Kathleen Higgins.  A Short History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.

    • Warburton, Nigel.  Philosophy: the ClassicsLondon: Routledge, 1998.
    • Watson, Peter.  Ideas: a History from Fire to Freud London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
    • Feminist Thought:
      • Tuana, Nancy.  Woman and the History of Philosophy.  London: Paragon, 1992.

    • Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives:

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