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On Theology and Psychology: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Adolf Keller by C. G. Jung 9780691198774
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $66.36Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicistsOn Theology and Psychology brings together C. G. Jung's correspondence with Adolf Keller, a celebrated... -
The Mind of Kierkegaard by James Daniel Collins 9780691612904
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $84.90This introductory overview of Kierkegaard's writings summarizes their central arguments and places them in their historical context. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses... -
The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God by Mitchell Cohen 9780691628134
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $88.12In 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... -
Between Philosophy and History: The Resurrection of Speculative Philosophy of History within the Analytic Tradition by Haskell Fain 9780691621104
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92This work provides a welcome antidote to some of the distortions and biases which the two dominant schools of Anglo-American philosophical thinking, logical positivism and ordinary language analysis... -
Mapping Literary Modernism by Ricardo J. Quinones 9780691611938
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $84.90Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 1940, and beyond, and not as an entity centered on the... -
William James on Consciousness beyond the Margin by Eugene Taylor
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.94At the turn of the twentieth century, William James was America's most widely read philosopher. In addition to being one of the founders of pragmatism, however, he was also a leading psychologist and... -
On Four Modern Humanists: Hofmannsthal, Gundolph, Curtius, Kantorowicz by Arthur R. Evans 9780691620961
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $68.92Five experts present their viewpoints on four of the most important figures in recent intellectual and cultural history. Professor Egon Schwarz evaluates Hofmannsthal as a critic; Professors C. V... -
Faulkner: Myth and Motion by Richard Perrill Adams 9780691622392
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Faulkner said that "Life is motion" and that "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at... -
Reims on Fire - War and Reconciliation between France and Germany Thomas W. Gaehtgens 9781606065709
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $87.36As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The... -
Einstein in Spain: Relativity and the Recovery of Science by Thomas F. Glick 9780691605364
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $119.39From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous academic freedom and unfettered scientific inquiry that strikingly contrasted with the repressive atmosphere of the periods before and after... -
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain by Ross Carroll
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justiceThe relaxing of censorship in Britain at the... -
The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough by John B. Vickery
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $116.93Frazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern literature. One of the great nineteenth-century syntheses, The Golden Bough was the... -
Liberal Socialism by Carlo Rosselli 9780691603414
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.94First published in 1930, amidst the collapse of socialist ideals and the onset of fascism throughout parts of Europe, Liberal Socialism is a powerful and timely document on the ethics of political... -
Einstein in Bohemia by Professor Michael D. Gordin 9780691177373
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.57A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a... -
Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy by Matthew Affron 9780691027371
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $104.14Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse,... -
Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History by Karl S. Guthke 9780691628158
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92Whether Goethe actually cried "More light!" on his deathbed, or whether Conrad Hilton checked out of this world after uttering "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub," last words,... -
The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel by Herman Meyer 9780691622583
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $74.49This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil... -
Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $69.55This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual... -
Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI: Ethical and World-View Philosophy by Wilhelm Dilthey 9780691195575
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $92.93This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on... -
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain by Ross Carroll 9780691241777
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $52.94How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justiceThe relaxing of censorship in Britain at the... -
Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical by James Olney 9780691616261
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $112.04Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy... -
Essays on European Literature by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691618883
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $159.81Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages,... -
Hofmannsthal: Three Essays by Michael Hamburger 9780691619231
Booksplease Price: $69.15Contents: Poems and Verse Plays; Plays and Libretti; Hofmannsthal's Debt to the English-speaking World Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand... -
Katherine Mansfield and Psychology by Gerri Kimber
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors of this volume read Mansfield's work alongside figures like William James and Henri Bergson, opening up new... -
Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past by James Longenbach 9780691609720
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $93.03By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies... -
The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson 9780691050492
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 14 (English): The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, April 1923-May 1925 (English Translation Supplement) - Documentary Edition by Albert Einstein 9780691164229
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $118.61In the almost one hundred writings and more than one thousand letters included in this volume, Einstein is revealed yet again as the consummate puzzler of myriad scientific problems as well as the... -
Bergson, Politics, and Religion by Alexandre Lefebvre
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Henri Bergson is primarily known for his work on time, memory, and creativity. His equally innovative interventions into politics and religion have, however, been neglected or dismissed until now. In... -
Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances by MaoHui Deng 9781474486989
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $39.96Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework. Analysing the aesthetics of films like A... -
Bergson Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318116
Booksplease Price: $22.05Leszek Kolakowski shows how Henri Bergson sought to reconcile Darwin's theory with his own beliefs about the nature of the universe. Bergson believed that time could be thought of in two different... -
Human Rights and the Care of the Self by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780822371229
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self... -
Proust, Photography, and the Time of Life: Ravaisson, Bergson, and Simmel by Professor Suzanne Guerlac 9781350152236
Booksplease Price: $62.81Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust's contemporaries, Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of Things Past (A... -
A Bergsonian Approach to Translation and Time: Toward Spiritual Translation Studies by Salah Basalamah (University of Ottawa, Canada) 9780367748999
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $90.47This innovative book offers a systematic conceptual exploration of translation through the lens of time, challenging the traditional notion of translation as mere linguistic transfer and advancing a... -
Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson by John O Maoilearca 9780197613917
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $169.03Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson covers a fascinating yet little known moment in history. At the turn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson and his... -
Sacred Monster Of Thomism - Life & Legacy Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Richard O.p. Peddicord 9781587317644
Booksplease Price: $36.60This new paperbound edition of The Sacred Monster of Thomism (the epithet comes from Francois Mauriac) is the first full-length study of the life and thought of the most influential Dominican... -
Action at a Distance by John Durham Peters
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an 'acting at a distance,' an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the... -
Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France by Larry Sommer McGrath
Booksplease Price: $65.88The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily... -
Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France by Larry Sommer McGrath 9780226699790
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $185.96The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily... -
Objects Untimely – Object–Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology by G Harman
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore, who defend radical... -
Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan by Naveeda Khan 9780822352174
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $153.32In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan...