Liveright, November 2021. Hardcover. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ("John of Silence"), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch, W. H. Auden..... More
Dover Pubns, July 1982. Paper Back. Quarto. Foxing to first and last inside pages. Mild toning to cover. Unmarked interior pages, without underlining, notes, etc. 84 pages. More
NYRB Classics, May 2019. Paper Back. A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures. Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgängers, wraiths, and..... More
Broadway, June 1988. Oversize Softcover. The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminient scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the..... More
Oxford University Press, April 2005. Hardcover. Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among the blacks of America. Jackson notes that no one has offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among Blackamericans (a coinage he explains and defends) but not among white Americans or..... More
Perigee Trade, February 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Hill and Wang, January 2006. Trade Paperback. A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent..... More
Metropolitan Books, November 2021. Hardcover. Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff When we lose someone we love, when we suffer..... More
Dover Publications, June 1994. Trade Paperback. In this fascinating and comprehensive collection of Chinese myths and legends, E. T. C. Werner drew upon material readily available to him as a member of the Chinese government's' Historiographical Bureau in Peking. A former barrister and British consul in Foochow, Werner presents a...... More
Anchor Books, August 1983. Trade Paperback. This collection of over two hundred folk and fairy tales from all over the world is the only edition that encompasses all cultures. Arranged geographically by region--West and East Europe, British Isles, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe, Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, North America..... More
Routledge, September 2006. Oversize Softcover. Introducing Hinduism is the ideal starting point for students wishing to undertake a comprehensive study of this fascinating religion. This lively introduction explores the complexities of Hinduism, including its social structures, especially its caste system, its rituals and many scriptures, its vast mythology and varieties..... More
Three Rivers Press, August 2002. Trade Paperback. Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and create versions that are definitive for our time. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular..... More
Vintage, March 1990. Trade Paperback. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is. More
St. Martin's Essentials, November 2021. Hardcover. An accessible biography of Muhammad, Islam's founding prophet, tracing his development from orphan to political leader and providing insights into his personal life and tastes. --New York Times Book Review A joyous read, presenting the Prophet Muhammad both as human and humane. Insightful, thoughtful..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, February 2001. Trade Paperback. In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis' legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The..... More
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Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, August 1997. Novelty. Frits Blok, the translator and editor of this edition, stays as close as possible to the original ancient Chinese, but has left out the classical commentaries, resulting in a text that leaves space for the reader's personal interpretation. The book is presented in..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, September 2021. Hardcover. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of..... More
Turtle Island Foundation, Netz, January 1983. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Soiling to textblock top edge & fore-edge. Also small bits of soiling cover and spine. More
University of Illinois Press, March 2003. Hardcover. An important figure in the development of Nietzsche scholarship, Mazzino Montinari (1928-86) dedicated himself to the detailed study of the philosopher's writings. This lifetime of scholarship crystallized in Montinari's work as coeditor of the critical edition of Nietzsche's collected writings. Reading Nietzsche, now..... More
Princeton, NJ Princeton U.P, January 1968. Hardcover. Second printing. Jacket wear. More
Penguin USA, 1978. Trade Paperback. Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1977. Trade Paperback. The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few writers in any..... More
Cambridge University Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This..... More
Cambridge University Press, July 2016. Hardcover. How did Nietzsche the philosopher come into being? The Nietzsche known today did not develop 'naturally', through the gradual maturation of some inborn character. Instead, from an early age he engaged in a self-conscious campaign to follow his own guidance, thereby cultivating the critical..... More
Open Court, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Schopenhauer's analyses of causation and related concepts . . . rival and probably surpass in their depth and brilliance the more celebrated discussions of David Hume. Where Hume grossly oversimplified these problems and left them riddled with paradoxes, Schopenhauer disentangled them and shed light..... More
