The first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought. A landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and for those in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.

Introduction: Patterns of Thinking Panayiota Vassilopoulou and Daniel Whistler Part 1: Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume 1. Thinking Like a Hero Casey Perin 2. The Primacy of Practice and the Centrality of Outlook: Reflections on Chinese Ethical Traditions Kwong-loi Shun 3. Thinking, Theorising and Theoria Stephen Clark Part 2: The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel 4. The Myth of the Mental: an Augustinian critique of Dreyfus and McDowell Catherine Pickstock 5. Romantic Thinking Nicholas Halmi 6. Pure and Impure Thinking in Hegel’s Encyclopedia Markus Gabriel 7. Denkicht—Thicket-Thinking with Walter Benjamin around 1917 Peter Fenves 8. Formal-Syntactical Thinking and the Structure of the World Paul M. Livingston Part 3: Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger 9. Plotinus: Philosophical Thinking as Self-Creation Panayiota Vassilopoulou 10. Thinking’s History: Descartes and the Past Tense of Thought Andrea Gadberry 11. Polyp-Thinking in the Eighteenth Century Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler 12. The Mythic Imagination as an ‘Experiment in Philosophy’: Erich Unger’s Contribution to the Phenomenology of Thinking Bruce Rosenstock Part 4: Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray 13. Thinking about the Unthinkable: Hypothesizing the khôra in the Timaeus Luc Brisson 14. Thought in Motion: Lucretius’ Materialist Practice Thomas Nail 15. Thinking Philosophically in the Middle Ages: The Case of the Early Franciscans Lydia Schumacher 16. The ‘Thought-Work’; Or, The Exuberance of Thinking in Kant and Freud Stella Sandford 17. Thinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin Rachel Jones Part 5: The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille 18. Thinking without Commitment: Two Models Richard Bett 19. Thinking, Acting, and Acting by Thinking: Marx and Althusser Gregor Moder 20. ‘Thoughts and purposes have come to me in the shadow I should never have learned in the sunshine’: The Development of Philosophical Thinking in the Literature of Frances E.W. Harper Catherine Villanueva Gardner 21. The Void of Thought and the Ambivalence of History: Chaadaev, Bakunin, Fedorov Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet 22. The Destruction of Thought Gil Anidjar. Index