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In Praise of Failure
Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and …
Dying for Ideas
What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your …
In Marx's Shadow
Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist …
Philosophy as a Literary Art
Despite philosophers’ growing interest in the relation between philosophy and literature in general, over the last few decades comparatively few studies have been published dealing …
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe charts the intellectual landscape of twentieth century East-Central Europe under the unifying theme of …
Dying for Ideas
What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your …
In Praise of Failure
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"e;Charming and brilliant."e; -Times Literary Supplement"e;Provocative, stimulating, wise-the book that our success-obsessed …
Cinema and Sacrifice
Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, …
The God Beat
"In the wake of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attacks we, as an increasingly secular nation, were reminded that religion is, for good and bad, still significant in the modern world. …
On the Genealogy of Morals (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Nietzsche referred to his critique of Judeo-Christian moral values as 'philosophizing with the hammer'. "On the Genealogy of Morals" (originally subtitled "A Polemic") is divided …
Beyond Good and Evil (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Supposing that truth is a woman, what then? This is the very first sentence in Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil". Not very often are philosophers so disarmingly explicit in their …