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Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful Dean Rickles 9780691240619
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.18Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death... -
The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity by Barbara Hahn 9780691116143
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $69.85"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been... -
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $83.60An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the... -
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib 9780691167251
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia 9780691223209
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.00A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135106
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.52During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller 9780691259307
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an... -
Of Joints and Other Articulations: The Futures of Arthrosophy Michael Marder 9780810149625
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $90.95Articulates a philosophical mode of thinking modeled after our bodily construction points What if we were to reimagine bodies of all kinds - biological and ecosystemic, political and textual,... -
God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars by Benjamin Lazier
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.10Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the... -
Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Loewith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse by Richard Wolin 9780691168616
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted... -
French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture by David Carroll
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.13This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist... -
Interpreting Modern Philosophy by James Daniel Collins 9780691619927
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $72.21James Collins probes the meaning and methods of historical interpretation in philosophy by analyzing the creative reciprocity between the modern source thinkers--the great classical philosophers from... -
The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity by Barbara Hahn 9780691171470
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.10"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been... -
The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism Wendy Steiner 9780226772240
Booksplease Price: $31.99Surveying a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence, from canon-revision in the academy to the scandals that have surrounded Anthony... -
Politics and the Imagination by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of... -
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic by Stanley Corngold
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.37The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual lifeWalter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.99On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with... -
Authorizing Marriage?: Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions by Mark D. Jordan 9780691123462
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $63.97The opponents of legal recognition for same-sex marriage frequently appeal to a "Judeo-Christian" tradition. But does it make any sense to speak of that tradition as a single teaching on marriage?... -
A Short History of German Philosophy by Vittorio Hosle 9780691183121
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96The story of German philosophy from the Middle Ages to todayIn an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hoesle traces the evolution of German philosophy and... -
New French Thought: Political Philosophy by Mark Lilla 9780691605678
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.31The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into English for the first time essays by some of the best young French... -
Creative Man: The Collected Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 2 by Erich Neumann 9780691279152
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $52.15An essential exploration of creativity by one of the twentieth century's foremost Jungian psychologistsThough said to be C. G. Jung's favorite and most innovative student, Erich Neumann provoked... -
Existential Epistemology: A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Approach by John Richardson 9780198249061
Booksplease Price: $75.70This study introduces the `existential phenomenology' of Martin Heidegger, and shows how Heidegger's ideas bear on the central problem of epistemology, that of how we can have objective knowledge... -
Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought by David N. Myers
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the... -
The Power of Cute Simon May 9780691271149
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.30An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty... -
Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt by Dana R. Villa
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $61.66Hannah Arendt's rich and varied political thought is more influential today than ever before, due in part to the collapse of communism and the need for ideas that move beyond the old ideologies of... -
American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines by Thomas Bender
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $60.04In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the... -
Public Freedom Dana Villa 9780691135946
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.76The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and... -
Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany by Patrice Petro
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.22Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in... -
Beauty and Holiness: The Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion by James Alfred Martin
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.48In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of... -
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691192352
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the... -
Heidegger and the Greeks: Interpretive Essays by Drew A. Hyland
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.85Martin Heidegger's sustained reflection on Greek thought has been increasingly recognized as a decisive feature of his own philosophical development. At the same time, this important philosophical... -
The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time by Theodore Kisiel
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $36.84This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been... -
Heidegger's <I>Volk</I>: Between National Socialism and Poetry by James Phillips 9780804750707
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $107.91In 1933 the philosopher Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to Hitler. Ever since, scholars have asked to what extent his work is implicated in Nazism. To address this question properly involves... -
The New Heidegger by Miguel de Beistegui 9780826470614
Booksplease Price: $44.47A comprehensive and accessible overview of, and introduction to, the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers, Martin Heidegger, by one of the world's foremost Heidegger... -
The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God by Mitchell Cohen 9780691628134
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $52.15In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. While many Parisian... -
Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music by Michael P. Steinberg
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.34This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth... -
Adventures in Philosophy by Brendan O'Donoghue 9780717179398
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.45'I wish you all, young and old, great adventures with this most welcome work.' Sabina Coyne Higgins Step into the unknown and venture deeper into the word-forest of your soul. Read the wondrous... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.82In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on... -
The Seduction of Culture in German History by Wolf Lepenies 9780691164618
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $27.80During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it... -
The Great Detour: Heidegger and the Question of the Animal by S. Montgomery Ewegen 9798855804669
RRP: $112.88Booksplease Price: $107.70An in-depth and unique take on Martin Heidegger's understanding of animality, showing that the question of the animal was central to Heidegger's philosophical project from beginning to end.The Great...