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  • Struggling with Israel in a Marriage

    by Gina Crandell, David Roochnik ...
    Why do you call yourself Jewish when you haven't stepped into a synagogue for years? Gina asks. David responds: Your questions about being Jewish make me shudder. Gina Crandell and David Roochnik have published many books in their academic fields but in Struggling with Israel in a Marriage, they dig into their memories to ask where their sometimes conflicting views about Israel came from. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deaths of Famous Philosophers

    An Imaginative History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

    by David Roochnik ...
    Deaths of Famous Philosophers is inspired by Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, a third-century CE anthology of biographical sketches of Greek philosophers. Each of its twenty-three chapters is a fictionalized depiction of the protagonists when they are near death and are taking stock of their lives. Written in contemporary vernacular, Deaths of Famous Philosophers will offer ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking Philosophically

    An Introduction to the Great Debates

    by David Roochnik ...
    Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates presents a highly accessible introduction to five of the most fundamental debates in world philosophy.Introduces five fundamental philosophical debates in a highly engaging and accessible manner that invites readers to enter the discussion themselvesFeatures chapters that each consider a central philosophical question dialectically by ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis

    by David Roochnik ...
    Series series SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
    An urgent, contemporary defense of AristotleIn 1935 Edmund Husserl delivered his now famous lecture "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity," in which he argued that the "misguided rationalism" of modern Western science, dominated by the model of mathematical physics, can tell us nothing about the "meaning" of our lives. Today Husserl's conviction that the West faces a crisis is no longer ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Retrieving the Ancients

    An Introduction to Greek Philosophy

    by David Roochnik ...
    Provides an accessible introduction to ancient Greek philosophy, enhanced with new features and contentRetrieving the Ancients offers a clear and engaging narrative of one of the most fertile periods in the history of human thought, beginning with the Ionian Philosophers of the sixth century and concluding with the works of Aristotle. Organized chronologically, this student-friendly textbook ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Tragedy of Reason

    Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos

    by David Roochnik ...
    First Published in 1991. This book attempts to defend a conception of reason—or to use the Greek word "logos"—that I contend can be extracted from the dialogues of Plato. The very notion of defending Plato may seem strange. Why would a philosopher enshrined for centuries as "classic" need a defense? A defense against whom and what charge? What does it mean to defend an author so long dead? Can he ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Tragedy of Reason

    Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos

    by David Roochnik ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Idealism
    The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era. Its enemies range from Descartes, who complains that logos is not sufficiently useful or precise, to Derrida who hopes to liberate Western thought from its bondage to "logocentrism."At least since the time of Nietzsche, Plato has been damned as the chief architect of the classical conception of logos. He ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Eat, Drink, Think

    What Ancient Greece Can Tell Us about Food and Wine

    by Professor David Roochnik ...
    What role does food play in the shaping of humanity? Is sharing a good meal with friends and family an experience of life at its best, or is food merely a burdensome necessity? David Roochnik explores these questions by discussing classical works of Greek literature and philosophy in which food and drink play an important role.With thoughts on Homer's The Odyssey, Euripides' Bacchae, Plato's ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Plato's Cleitophon

    On Socrates and the Modern Mind

    by Jan H. Blits, Clifford Orwin, David Roochnik ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    It had been thought that theCleitophon was a spurious dialogue. Its brevity and the fact that Socrates does not respond to accusations from Cleitophon suggested to scholars that it was only a fragment. However, in the last fifteen years, the complete and authentic dialogue was rediscovered. Upon its discovery, scholars have almost universally agreed that the Cleitophon is the introduction to Plato ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Plato's Laws

    Force and Truth in Politics

    by Robert D. Metcalf, Mark Munn, Mitchell Miller, David Roochnik, Patricia Fagan, John Russon, Eric Salem, Sara Brill, Catherine H. Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Francisco J. Gonzalez ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on the work as a whole. In their introduction, editors Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday explore the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Socrates

    Ironist and Moral Philosopher

    by Gregory Vlastos ...
    This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Plato's Republic: A Study

    by Stanley Rosen ...
    In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue ... Read more

    $16.99 USD