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What Nietzsche Really Said

by Robert C. Solomon & Kathleen M. Higgins

What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.

Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence,...


Unpopular Essays

by , Bertrand Russell

This early work by Bertrand Russell is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of essays on the ideologies and philosophies that drove early twentieth century thought....


Hitler's Philosophers

by Yvonne Sherratt

Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader" and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this...


The Treasure of the Humble

by , Maurice Maeterlinck

Originally published in 1907, this little volume presents M. Maeterlinck in a new character, not as a dramatist, but as a philosopher and an aesthetician. It is some sort of an 'apology' for his theatre. He...


Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria

by Francis Hutcheson

This Liberty Fund publication of Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is a parallel edition of the English and Latin versions of a book designed by Hutcheson for use in the classroom. General Editor...


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich

by William H.F. Altman

By subjecting Nietzsche to a Platonic critique, Altman punctures his “pose of untimeliness” while making use of Nietzsche’s own aphoristic style of presentation. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—named for...


The Emotions and Cultural Analysis

by Ana Marta González

Amidst prevailing debates that construe rationality and emotionality as polar opposites, this book explores the manner in which emotions shape not only prevailing conceptions of rationality, but also culture...


Anti-Badiou: The Introduction of Maoism into Philosophy

by Francois Laruelle & Robin Mackay

This compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, François Laruelle.

At face value, the two have...


Schizoanalytic Cartographies

by Felix Guattari & Andrew Goffey

Schizoanalytic Cartographies represents Félix Guattari's most important later work and the most systematic and detailed account of his theoretical position and his therapeutic ideas.

Guattari sets out to provide...


The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work: t/c

by Alain De Botton

We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us.

The Pleasures and...


The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes

by S.A. Lloyd

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. His contributions to ethics, political philosophy and psychology in particular were hugely innovative...


The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments

by Gertrude Himmelfarb

In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time...


In the Beginning, She Was

by Luce Irigaray

In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses...


The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger

by Felix O Murchadha

This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution. Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character of such an event...


Derrida and the Writing of the Body

by Irwin

Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, 'the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years'. This book reinterprets Jacques Derrida's work from this period, most especially in L'Écriture...


J.G. Fichte and the Atheism Dispute (1798-1800)

by Yolanda Estes & Curtis Bowman

The atheism dispute is one of the most important philosophical controversies of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of the leading philosophers of the period, was...


Augenblick: The Concept of the 'Decisive Moment' in 19th- and 20th-Century Western Philosophy

by Koral Ward

Augenblick, meaning literally 'In the blink of an eye', describes a 'decisive moment' in time that is fleeting, yet momentously eventful and incredibly significant. In this book, Koral Ward investigates the...


Truth and Normativity: An Inquiry into the Basis of Everyday Moral Claims

by Iain Brassington

By posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political...


Hellenic Philosophy: Origin and Character

by Christos C. Evangeliou

Radical and revisionary in nature, this work challenges many of the long cherished myths about the influence of Classical Hellenic philosophy on the tradition of Western thought. Tracing the historical origin...


Between Hegel and Spinoza: A Volume of Critical Essays

by Hasana, Dr Sharp & Jason E Smith

Recent

work in political philosophy and the history of ideas presents Spinoza and

Hegel as the most powerful living alternatives to mainstream Enlightenment

thought. Yet, for many philosophers and political theorists...