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Was Socrates an ironist? Did he mock his interlocutors and, in doing so, show disdain for both them and the institutions of Athenian democracy?  These questions were debated with …

Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan …

Peter och Willy flyger österut. De var nyss i Frankrike på ledighet, när ett oväntat besök ändrade deras planer. Willy är först inte särskilt intresserad när Peter berättar om …

Provides a survey of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political philosophy, from their roots in myth to the philosophers and Sophists of the fifth century. This title …

The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the …

This volume demonstrates how Wittgenstein’s philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new ways of conceptualizing democratic theory and practice. Its focus …

"The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." --P.J. O'RourkeHailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. …

The origins both of modern science and modern philosophy lie in Greek civilization of the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. It was then that a series of thinkers, usually known as "the …

A study of the Presocratics and Sophists. It offers a selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates.

Dive into the intellectual origins of Western philosophy with "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers." This comprehensive translation brings to life the fragments of wisdom left …

This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins with …