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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 …
Yesterday's Tomorrow
Seeing Double
The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of …
Not Thinking like a Liberal
In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world's most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his …
Invention of God
Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Romer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms-Yhwh, God, or Allah-by tracing Israelite beliefs and …
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 …
The Greeks and Their Histories
In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the …
Who Needs a World View?
One of the world's most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems-the perceived need for a world view.We live in a unitary cosmos …
Yesterday's Tomorrow
How the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes.The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose class structures and …
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Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of …