Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work.

The most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text.

With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.

This 2001 book offers an exciting reinterpretation of Auguste Comte, the founder of French sociology.

This volume is an essential source for scholars seeking to understand the contemporary significance of the dawning of the modern era.

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Covering such issues as the aims of science, the role it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibiliby of the scientist, the function of a university, and the choice between reason and revolution, this book defends science and ...

It has been thoroughly revised for this series and provided with a new and longer introduction, a chronology on Leibniz's life and career and a guide to further reading.

Also included in this edition is a brief introduction to Descartes and the Meditations, revised and expanded from Andrew Bailey’s acclaimed anthology, First Philosophy.

This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.