W. W. Norton & Company, May 2022. Hardcover. Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by "content." Written long before the advent of..... More

Allworth Press, November 1997. Paper Back. Out of print for decades, the enchanting classics in this new edition will be welcomed by teachers and students of literature, art history, and aesthetics. Written by an esteemed nineteenth-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature, the "imaginary portraits" are fictionalized accounts of historic..... More

State University of New York Press, September 1985. Trade Paperback. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction provides an assessment of two dominant modes of thinking and writing in continental philosophy today. It addresses central issues in the theory of interpretation and in the strategies of textual reading. Placed in the context of contemporary..... More

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 2000. Trade Paperback. This book explores what anyone interested in ethics can draw from Heidegger's thinking. Heidegger argues for the radical finitude of being. But finitude is not only an ontological matter; it is also located in ethical life. Moral matters are responses to finite..... More

University of Chicago Press, March 1994. Trade Paperback. In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's "The American Scholar," this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the..... More

Routledge, August 1991. Trade Paperback. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More

Wiley-Blackwell, January 1996. Trade Paperback. Covers creased; previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More

Mariner Books, April 2022. Hardcover. Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: "Quality" "The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment. --Robert M. Pirsig, 1962..... More

Modern Library, November 2000. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Peter Gay Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts..... More

Oxford University Press, February 1984. Trade Paperback. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith's first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment..... More

Basic Books, December 1994. Trade Paperback. Using newly available documentary evidence in diaries and letters, the authors present a startling new view of one of the legenday sexual and intellectual partnerships of the 20th century--the relationship between the matriarch of modern feminism and and father of existentialism. More

Harcourt, Brace & World, January 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. No dustjacket. Dusted tan cloth covered boards with umber and lemon yellow lettering. Darkened spine and margins to cloth cover. Previous owner's name rubber stamped top textblock edge and on front free end page and front pastedown. Also hand written..... More

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, December 2016. Trade Paperback. This collection brings together two of Schopenhauer's most respected works, wherein the philosopher shares his views on life and what he believes to be follies of human behavior. Writing with incisive poise and a great sense of humor, Schopenhauer introduces the various..... More