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Kierkegaard Within Your Graspby Shelley O'Hara
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 5.99Philosophy's greatest luminaries brought down to earth. Kierkegaard Within Your Grasp offers fast, easy access to the life and works of the legendary architect of existentialism. In fewer than 100 pages, you'll get all the essentials in everyday language. A short biographical sketch sets the scene, followed by chapters illuminating Kierkegaard's overall philosophy and his most important writings. For students and lifelong learners seeking an entry point into this remarkably prolific thinker's social commentary, Kierkegaard Within Your Grasp is the springboard to enriched understanding. Inside you'll find all the vital details, including: Life * Family and upbringing * Religion-from influence to critique * The Copenhagen intellectual scene... more...
Imaginaryby Jean-Paul Sartre; Jonathan Webber
Routledge 2004; US$ 31.95The Imaginary marks the first attempt to introduce Husserl's work into the English-speaking world. This new translation rectifies flaws in the 1948 translation and recaptures the essence of Sartre's phenomenology. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theoryby Fred Rush
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00An international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Adorno, Benjamin, and Habermas, and surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to this philosophical school. The result is an illuminating and authoritative guide to Critical Theory. more...
Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Differenceby Alison Stone
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 33.00Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural. Providing a new interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray, she defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture. more...
The Nietzsche Readerby Keith Ansell Pearson; Duncan Large
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 110.95The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche’s writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche’s life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas. • Includes selections from all the major texts, including The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti-Christ, and Ecce Homo • Offers new translations of key pieces from Nietzsche’s unpublished “Lenzer Heide” notebook • Provides a wealth of pedagogical features, such as editorial sections on Nietzsche’s life and importance, an opening introduction to his philosophical ideas, introductions... more...
Comic Reliefby Kathleen Marie Higgins
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 110.00This text offers a unorthodox analysis of Nietzsche by examining a neglected aspect of his scholarly personality - his sense of humour. While often thought of as ponderous and melancholy, the Nietzsche of Higgins's study is a surprisingly subtle and light-hearted writer. more...
Kierkegaards "Furcht und Zittern" als Bild seines ethischen Erkenntnisbegriffsby Joachim Boldt
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 104.00An interpretation of Kierkegaard?s most provocative work, in which the Danish philosopher makes the biblical account of Abraham?s sacrifice of Isaac the epitome of faith. more...
Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophyby John Rundell; Danielle Petherbridge; Jan Bryant; John Hewitt; Jeremy Smith
BRILL 2004; US$ 90.00Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy brings together a range of essays concerning ways of conceptualising modernities, subjectivities, and recognition. It highlights recent developments in German critical and social philosophy and includes essays by Martin Seel, Christoph Menke, Max Pensky, Andrew Bowie, and Karl Ameriks, and critical discussions of the works of Manfred Frank, Theodor Adorno and Axel Honneth. more...
Cosmos and Psycheby Richard Tarnas
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 16.99From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Richard Tarnas explores the planetary correlations of epochal events like the French Revolution, the two world wars, and September 11. Whether read as astrology updated for the quantum age or as a contemporary classic of spirituality, Cosmos and Psyche is a work of immense sophistication, deep learning, and lasting importance. more...
Colonization of Psychic Spaceby Kelly Oliver
University of Minnesota Press 2004; US$ 66.00Eloquently arguing that we cannot explain the development of individuality or subjectivity apart from its social context, Kelly Oliver makes a powerful case for recognizing the social aspects of alienation and the psychic aspects of oppression.Oliver explores the ways in which the alienation unique to oppression leads to depression or violence; and how these affects can be transformed into agency, individuality, solidarity, and community. more...









