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  • The Sea

    A Philosophical Encounter

    Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately began. Yet the sea is also dark and mysterious and often spells catastrophe and death. The sea is a ... Read more

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  • Three Encounters

    Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida and, through many letters and visits, come to know him well. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and Krell's warmly told personal recollections, Three Encounters presents an intimate and highly insightful look ... Read more

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  • Derrida and Our Animal Others

    Derrida's Final Seminar, "The Beast and the Sovereign"

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Jacques Derrida's final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty—the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West. David Farrell Krell offers a detailed account of these seminars, placing them in the context of Derrida's late work and his critique of Heidegger. ... Read more

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  • Daimon Life

    Heidegger and Life-Philosophy

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    "Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." –John LlewelynDisclosure of Martin Heidegger's complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger's philosophy exhibit a kind of organicism readily transformed into ideological "blood and soil"? Or, rather, did ... Read more

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  • This Dagger, My Heart

    A Novel

    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Historical fiction centered around the life and tragic death of the German Romantic poet and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode.In 1806, when she was only twenty-six, Karoline von Günderrode plunged a dagger through her heart. She was a gifted poet and philosopher, a member of the circle of Romantic writers such as Bettine Brentano, Clemens Brentano, and Achim von Arnim. Women were not admitted ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • On the Deities of Samothrace

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    In 1815, F. W. J. Schelling presented a lecture titled "On the Deities of Samothrace" to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The lecture offered a startlingly original reading of the ancient Greek mystery religion on the island of Samothrace. It would be the last book Schelling himself published, and it is the key to his influential Philosophy of Mythology.Now, for the first time in English, this ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Cudgel and the Caress

    Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness

    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.The Cudgel and the Caress explores the enduring significance of tenderness and cruelty in a range of works across philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. Divided into two parts, the book initially focuses on tenderness, with David Farrell Krell delivering original readings of Homer's Iliad, Sophocles's Antigone, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Ecstasy, Catastrophe

    Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks

    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Lectures on ecstatic temporality and on Heidegger's political legacy.In Ecstasy, Catastrophe, David Farrell Krell provides insight into two areas of Heidegger's thought: his analysis of ecstatic temporality in Being and Time (1927) and his "political" remarks in the recently published Black Notebooks (1931–1941). The first part of Krell's book focuses on Heidegger's interpretation of time, which ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • A Black Forest Walden

    Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando

    Series series SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
    Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Essay CategoryA Black Forest Walden is a work of philosophical reflection, nature description, and sly humor. In brief chapters, or aphorisms, the American philosopher David Farrell Krell recounts his experiences in a cabin located in ... ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Struck by Apollo

    Hölderlin's Journeys to Bordeaux and Back and Beyond

    Series series SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
    Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.2024 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleIn the winter of 1801–02, Friedrich Hölderlin traveled more than one thousand kilometers from his home near Stuttgart to Bordeaux, partly on foot, partly by post coach. It took him two months. Then, after four months serving as a tutor ... Read more

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  • Encounters with Alphonso Lingis

    Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished contributors to this volume ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Exceedingly Nietzsche

    Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation

    Originally published in 1988, this collection brings together a wide range of original readings on Friedrich Nietzsche, reflecting many aspects of Neitzsche in contemporary philosophy, literature and the social sciences. The Nietzsche these contributors discuss is the Nietzsche who exceeds any attempt at determinate interpretation, the Nietzsche whose capacity for renewing thought seems limitless. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD