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  • Iliad ad Nihilum: Psychê, Conscience, Wonder

    by Michael Degener ...
    Achilles, paragon of aristocratic valor, an "idol of idiot worshippers," as Shakespeare's Thersites soliloquizes? The Renaissance bard's Troy story, his much disregarded Troilus and Cressida, has long baffled readers; why would Shakespeare satirize the noble epic tradition, the 'divine' Homer? The answer: Shakespeare's parody of Achilles' tale pays homage to The Iliad, itself already a parody of ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Kierkegaard

    by Soren Kierkegaard ...
    Collected here in one volume are three of Søren Kierkegaard's most important works: Fear and Trembling, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, and Sickness Unto Death. Fear and Trembling: In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further. It would perhaps be rash to ask where these people are going, but it is surely a sign of breeding and culture for me to assume that ... Read more

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  • Existentialism For Dummies

    by Christopher Panza, Gregory Gale ...
    Have you ever wondered what the phrase “God is dead” means? You’ll find out in Existentialism For Dummies, a handy guide to Nietzsche, Sartre, and Kierkegaard’s favorite philosophy. See how existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and literature to world events and discover whether or not existentialism is still relevant today.You’ll find an introduction to existentialism and ... Read more

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  • Nature

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a fabulous philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff. ... Read more

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  • Essays in Aesthetics

    by Jean-Paul Sartre, Susan Braudy ...
    Translated by Wade Baskin ...
    R enowned French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre references artists such as Tintoretto, Calder, Lapoujade, Titian, Raphael, and Michaelangelo in discussing how great art of the past relates to the challenges of his eraEssays in Aesthetics is a provocative collection that considers the nature of art and its meaning. Sartre considers the artist's "function," and the relation of art and the artist to ... Read more

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  • The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are three of Nietzsche's three most important books: The Anti-Christ, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spake Zarathustra, as well as The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken. A perfect book for new readers of Nietzsche or anyone hoping to understand his writing and philosophy more thoroughly. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry ... Read more

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  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Thinking of Others

    On the Talent for Metaphor

    by Ted Cohen ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Problem of Naturalism

    Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues

    by Brian Lightbody ...
    Philosophers often use the term “naturalism’ in order to describe their work. It is commonplace to see a metaphysical, epistemological and/or ethical position self-described and described by others as one that is “naturalized.” But what, if anything, does the term naturalized add--or subtract---to the position being articulated? I demonstrate in The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Life In The Infinite : EXPANSIO

    The Incomplete Range

    by Ethan Lesley ...
    Series series The Incomplete Range
    Life In The Infinite is the first release for my very first free verse poetry collection, The Incomplete Range. Infinite deals with the basics of human emotion, existentialism, ageing, self-destruction, identity, and mid-life crises. Expansio edition features a total of 25 poems. ... Read more

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  • Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger

    by Wesley Phillips ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting. This is connected to the historical materialist project of social change by way of the radical Italian composer Luigi Nono. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Value of Popular Music

    An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics

    by Alison Stone ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-‘n’-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music’s stress on materiality gives it aesthetic value, drawing ... Read more

    $40.49 USD