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  • On Goethe

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume—newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive introduction—display a variety of styles and cover a vast array of topics. The collection revolves around two strikingly different essays. Whereas "Goethe's Elective Affinities" develops a theory ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Toward the Critique of Violence

    A Critical Edition

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory.The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Politics and Truth in Hölderlin

    Hyperion and the Choreographic Project of Modernity

    by Professor Anthony Curtis Adler ...
    While few would question the importance of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) for the development of German idealism and twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and critical theory, Hölderlin scholarship remains largely inaccessible to those working in English. This is especially true for his novel Hyperion - otherwise his most accessible work - which has not had a book-length study in English ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Modernity as Exception and Miracle

    by Eduardo Sabrovsky ...
    Translated by Javier Burdman ...
    Series series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
    Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.Translated from the Spanish De lo extraordinario: Nominalismo y Modernidad, this book argues that a defining aspect of modernity is an ever-increasing pursuit of, and need for, what Eduardo Sabrovsky calls "the extraordinary," a term that encompasses both the exception and the miraculous. Sabrovsky shows the degree to which ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Late Kant

    Towards Another Law of the Earth

    by Peter Fenves ...
    Immanuel Kant spent many of his younger years working on what are generally considered his masterpieces: the three Critiques. But his work did not stop there: in later life he began to reconsider subjects such as anthropology, and topics including colonialism, race and peace.In Late Kant, Peter Fenves becomes one of the first to thoroughly explore Kant's later writings and give them the detailed ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin

    by Werner Hamacher ...
    Translated by Julia Ng, Anthony Curtis Adler ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin shows how the poet enacts a radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an intense engagement with both Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the book presents Werner Hamacher's major attempts at developing a critical practice ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Messianic Reduction

    Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time

    by Peter Fenves ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By concentrating on a neglected dimension of Benjamin's friendship with Gershom Scholem, who was a student of mathematics before he became a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Kant: A Biography

    by Manfred Kuehn ...
    This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known that Kant spent his entire life in an isolated part of Prussia living the life of a typical university professor. This has given rise to the view ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Schopenhauer

    A Biography

    by David E. Cartwright ...
    In his quest to solve 'the ever-disquieting riddle of existence', Schopenhauer explored almost every dimension of human existence, developing a darkly compelling worldview that found deep resonance in contemporary literature, music, philosophy, and psychology. This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Goethe, Kant, and Hegel

    Discovering the Mind

    by Walter Kaufmann ...
    Series series Discovering the Mind Series
    This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities.Kaufmann's version of psychohistory ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • What Is Enlightenment?

    Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions

    Edited by James Schmidt ...
    Series Book 7 - Philosophical Traditions
    This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Nietzsche's Philosophy of History

    by Anthony K. Jensen ...
    Nietzsche, the so-called herald of the 'philosophy of the future', nevertheless dealt with the past on nearly every page of his writing. Not only was he concerned with how past values, cultural practices and institutions influence the present - he was plainly aware that any attempt to understand that influence encounters many meta-historical problems. This comprehensive and lucid exposition of the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD