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On the Genealogy of Morality
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1998; US$ 14.95This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsches style but also to convey his meaning accuratelyand thus to be an important advance on previous translations of this work. A superb set of notes ensures... more...
Gadamer's Ethics of Play
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 59.99Gadamer's Ethics of Play examines the ethical dimensions of understanding by focusing on the concept of dialogical 'play' in Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method. The book is accessible to an undergraduate audience, while also being relevant to ongoing debates among Gadamer scholars. more...
Sartre Explained
Open Court 2011; US$ 19.95The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905?1980) was the major representative of the philosophical movement called ?existentialism,? and he remains by far the most famous philosopher, worldwide, of the post?World War Two era. This book will provide readers with all the help they will need to find their own way in Sartre?s works. Author David Detmer... more...
Kant and Sartre
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This book challenges the view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies arguing that Kant was one of Sartre's most significant predecessors. The book identifies several fundamental theses of Sartre's practical philosophy, and shows Sartre to be closer to Kant in this respect than many contemporary Kantian theories are. more...
Understand Existentialism
Hodder & Stoughton 2010; US$ 20.83Understand Existentialism breaks down a complex mode of thought into more manageable sections, enabling you to get to grips with the key concepts within the movement. Chart the origins and development of existentialism in a variety of disciplines and learn about significant thinkers from Sartre and De Beauvoir to Beckett and Camus. Whether you are... more...
Understand Existentialism
Hodder & Stoughton 2010; Not AvailableUnderstand Existentialism breaks down a complex mode of thought into more manageable sections, enabling you to get to grips with the key concepts within the movement. Chart the origins and development of existentialism in a variety of disciplines and learn about significant thinkers from Sartre and De Beauvoir to Beckett and Camus. Whether you are... more...
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 32.00In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition’s origins in radical questioning. For Heidegger and Strauss, the recovery of the original premises of philosophy... more...
The Flame of Eternity
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 39.50The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on human life are inextricably linked to time, which in turn cannot be conceived of without eternity.... more...
Action and Existence
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained. more...
Plato's Laws
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 21.99Readers 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... more...









