- The Affirmation of Life
- Bernard Reginster
- While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life brings it sharply into focus. Reginster identifies overcoming nihilism as a central objective of Nietzsche's philosophical project, and shows how this concern systematically animates all of his main ideas.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
- Hilary Putnam
- If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philosophical thought: the idea that while factual claims can be rationally established or refuted, claims about value are wholly subjective, not capable of being rationally argued for or against.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Defenders of the Text
- Anthony Grafton
- This book traces the relationship between humanism and science from the mid-fifteenth century to the beginning of the modern period and demonstrates that humanism was neither a simple nor an impractical enterprise, but worked hand-in-hand with science in developing modern learning.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Derrida
- Christopher Norris
- Norris demonstrates that Derrida's texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. He explains the significance of Derrida's writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placing him squarely within that tradition. He also discusses some of the reasons for the massive institutional resistance that has so far prevented philosophers from engaging seriously with Derrida's work.
- Paperback
- The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century
- Donald J. Wilcox
- Hardcover 1969
- The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and the Reformation
- Erika Rummel
- In the last half of the fifteenth century, the classic Platonic debate over the respective merits of rhetoric and philosophy was replayed in the debate between humanists and scholastics over philology and dialectic. The intense dispute between representatives of the two camps fueled many of the most important intellectual developments of the Renaissance and Reformation.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Lessons of the Masters
- George Steiner
- When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- Manuscript Essays and Notes
- William James
- Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupkelis
- When William James died in 1910 he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. The most important of these manuscripts are those of the years 1903 and 1904 called "The Many and the One." The manuscripts in the rest of the volume contain James's reflections over a period of forty years in the form of drafts, memoranda, and notebook entries. The diverse subjects are arranged under the headings of Philosophy, Psychology, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Religion. Of special interest are the early notes in which James began to work out his own philosophical point of view.
- Hardcover 1988
- Manuscript Lectures
- William James
- Introduction by Ignas K. Skrupskelis
- This final volume of The Works of William James provides a full record of James's teaching career at Harvard from 1872 to 1907. It includes extensive working notes for lectures in more than twenty courses. Because his teaching was so closely involved with the development of his thought, this material adds a new dimension to our understanding of his philosophy.
- Hardcover 1988
- Pragmatism
- William James
- Fredson Bowers, Textual Editor
- Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Associate Editor
- Introduction by H.S. Thayer
- Hardcover 1975
- Return to Reason
- Stephen Toulmin
- Stephen Toulmin argues that the potential for reason to improve our lives has been hampered by a serious imbalance in our pursuit of knowledge. The centuries-old dominance of rationality has diminished the value of reasonableness. Toulmin issues a powerful call to redress the balance between rationality and reasonableness.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003
- Rewiewing Liberty
- Joan S. Bennett
- Hardcover 1988
- The Self Awakened
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- In this long-awaited work of general philosophy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger proposes a radical reorientation of established ideas about nature, mind, society, politics, and religion. The Self Awakened mobilizes the resources of several philosophical traditions, and develops the unrecognized revolutionary implications of the most influential of these traditions today--pragmatism. Avoiding technical jargon and needless complication, this book makes a case for philosophy as the supreme activity of the intellect at war, insisting on its power to deal with what matters most.
- Hardcover 2007