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Morality, Culture, and History
Raymond Geuss has been a distinctive contributor to the analysis and evaluation of German philosophy and to recent debates in ethics. In this new collection he treats a variety of …
A World without Why
Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic …
History and Illusion in Politics
The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically some of the most widely held and important preconceptions about contemporary politics held in advanced …
A Philosopher Looks at Work
Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual …
Public Goods, Private Goods
Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding …
Outside Ethics
Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary …
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche’s discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish …
The Idea of a Critical Theory
Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from the natural sciences as …
At Cross Purposes
This title records the story of a wandering German cleric's encounter with the limited hospitality of a 10th-century Parisian monastery. It was originally written in Latin and Old …
Politics and the Imagination
In 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 …
Philosophy and Real Politics
A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for changeMany contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is …
Nietzsche: Writings from the Early Notebooks
Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of …