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Modern and Postmodern

Contesting Nietzsche

Acampora, Christa Davis
April 2013 New Book E-book

Church and the Kingdom

Agamben, Giorgio
June 2012 New Book

Nymphs

Agamben, Giorgio
July 2013 New Book

State of Exception

Agamben, Giorgio
January 2004 E-book

Unspeakable Girl

Agamben, Giorgio
The Myth and Mystery of Kore
August 2013 New Book

Symbolic Construction of Reality

Barash, Jeffrey
The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer
December 2008 E-book

Camus

Bronner, Stephen Eric
Portrait of a Moralist
October 2009

This New Yet Unapproachable America

Cavell, Stanley
Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein
June 2013 New Book E-book

Islam and the West

Chérif, Mustapha
A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
November 2008 E-book

New Gods

Cioran, E. M.
March 2013 New Book E-book

Tombe

Cixous, Hélène
August 2013 New Book

Uncivil Unions

Daub, Adrian
The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
March 2012 E-book

Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I

Derrida, Jacques
November 2009 E-book

Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II

Derrida, Jacques
October 2011 E-book

Death Penalty, Volume I

Derrida, Jacques
November 2013 New Book

Signature Derrida

Derrida, Jacques
April 2013 New Book E-book

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Foucault, Michel
The Function of Avowal in Justice
October 2014 New Book E-book

Nietzsche's Enlightenment

Franco, Paul
The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
October 2011 E-book

Excommunication

Galloway, Alexander R.
Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
November 2013 New Book

End of Philosophy

Heidegger, Martin
April 2003

Identity and Difference

Heidegger, Martin
June 2002

Forgiveness

Jankelevitch, Vladimir
April 2005

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Kanterian, Edward
May 2007 E-book

Practices of the Self

Larmore, Charles
December 2010 E-book

Socrates and the Jews

Leonard, Miriam
Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
June 2012 New Book E-book

Arthur Schopenhauer

Lewis, Peter B.
September 2012 New Book

Leo Strauss's Defense of the Philosophic Life

Major, Rafael
Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?"
January 2013 New Book E-book

Erotic Phenomenon

Marion, Jean-Luc
November 2006

God Without Being

Marion, Jean-Luc
Hors-Texte, Second Edition
July 2012 New Book E-book

Kant's Organicism

Mensch, Jennifer
Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy
June 2013 New Book E-book

Romantic Absolute

Nassar, Dalia
Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804
December 2013 New Book

Hermeneutics and the Humanities

Paul, Herman
Dialogues with Hans-Georg Gadamer
June 2013 New Book

Philosophy of Discomfort

Pezeu-Massabuau, Jacques
June 2012 New Book

Sex and Terror

Quignard, Pascal
February 2012

Silent Crossing

Quignard, Pascal
May 2013 New Book

American Nietzsche

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
A History of an Icon and His Ideas
November 2011 E-book

Living Up to Death

Ricoeur, Paul
April 2009 E-book

Reflections on the Just

Ricoeur, Paul
June 2007

Kant and Phenomenology

Rockmore, Tom
January 2011 E-book

Idea of Hegel's

Rosen, Stanley
November 2013 New Book

Transfigurements

Sallis, John
On the True Sense of Art
November 2008 E-book

Verge of Philosophy

Sallis, John
December 2007 E-book

Critical Essays

Sartre, Jean-Paul
December 2010

Concept of the Political

Schmitt, Carl
Expanded Edition
May 2007 E-book

Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes

Schmitt, Carl
Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol
October 2008

Political Theology

Schmitt, Carl
Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
January 2006 E-book

History of Continental Philosophy

Schrift, Alan D.
January 2011 E-book

Gandhi and the Stoics

Sorabji, Richard
Modern Experiments on Ancient Values
November 2012 New Book

Necessity, Cause and Blame

Sorabji, Richard
Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory
June 2006

Time, Creation and the Continuum

Sorabji, Richard
Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
November 2006

Martin Heidegger

Steiner, George
September 1991

Walter Benjamin

Steiner, Uwe
An Introduction to His Work and Thought
May 2010 E-book

Leo Strauss on Maimonides

Strauss, Leo
The Complete Writings
April 2013 New Book E-book

Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

Strauss, Leo
December 2012 New Book E-book

After Life

Thacker, Eugene
November 2010 E-book

Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy

Velkley, Richard L.
On Original Forgetting
November 2011 E-book

Moralizing Technology

Verbeek, Peter-Paul
Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things
November 2011 E-book

Winter's Journey

Virilio, Paul
Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch
October 2011

Philosophy and Religion

Al-Ghazali's

Al-Ghazali,
October 2013 New Book

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

Boyarin, Daniel
November 2009 E-book

Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella

Campanella, Tommaso
A Bilingual Edition
March 2011 E-book

Theological Origins of Modernity

Gillespie, Michael Allen
May 2008 E-book

Putting On Virtue

Herdt, Jennifer
The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
December 2008 E-book

Arts of Wonder

Kosky, Jeffrey L.
Enchanting Secularity - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy
December 2012 New Book E-book

Buddhism and Science

Lopez Jr., Donald
A Guide for the Perplexed
November 2008 E-book

German Idealism and the Jew

Mack, Michael
The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
June 2003

Saints

Meltzer, Françoise
Faith without Borders
December 2011 E-book

Maimonides and Spinoza

Parens, Joshua
Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature
August 2012 New Book E-book

Judaism Despite Christianity

Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen
The 1916 Wartime Correspondence Between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig
September 2011 E-book

Early Modern and Medieval Philosophy

Trials of Spinoza

Ali, Tariq
March 2011

Physics of The Healing

Avicenna,
A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes
May 2010

Enlightenment

Edelstein, Dan
A Genealogy
December 2010 E-book

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Hammill, Graham
October 2012 New Book E-book

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe, Lawrence M.
November 2012 New Book E-book

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin, Clifford
June 2010 E-book

Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

Tufayl, Ibn
A Philosophical Tale
November 2009

Classical Philosophy

Aristotle's

Aristotle,
Second Edition
March 2013 New Book E-book

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle,
June 2011 E-book

Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates

Burger, Ronna
On the "Nicomachean Ethics"
July 2008 E-book

Essay on the Unity of Stoic Philosophy

Christensen, Johnny
Second Edition
April 2013 New Book

Soul of the Greeks

Davis, Michael
An Inquiry
April 2011 E-book

City and Soul in Plato's Republic

Ferrari, G. R. F.
September 2005

How Philosophy Became Socratic

Lampert, Laurence
A Study of Plato's "Protagoras," "Charmides," and "Republic"
July 2010 E-book

What Did the Romans Know?

Lehoux, Daryn
An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
February 2012 E-book

Aristotle's Teaching in the

Pangle, Thomas L.
April 2013 New Book E-book

Anger, Mercy, Revenge

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
July 2010 E-book

Natural Questions

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
May 2010 E-book

On Benefits

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
April 2011 E-book

Plato's Philosophers

Zuckert, Catherine
The Coherence of the Dialogues
June 2009 E-book

Political and Social Philosophy

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture

Allhoff, Fritz
A Philosophical Analysis
February 2012 E-book

Against Fairness

Asma, Stephen T.
November 2012 New Book E-book

Another Freedom

Boym, Svetlana
The Alternative History of an Idea
June 2010

Philosophy of Sport

Connor, Steven
November 2011

Secular Powers

Cooper, Julie E.
Humility in Modern Political Thought
December 2013 New Book

Beyond Nature and Culture

Descola, Philippe
June 2013 New Book

Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins, John Patrick
June 2011 E-book

In Search of Goodness

Grant, Ruth W.
April 2011 E-book

Lifeworlds

Jackson, Michael
Essays in Existential Anthropology
November 2012 New Book E-book

Why the Law Is So Perverse

Katz, Leo
September 2011 E-book

Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss

Lampert, Laurence
August 2013 New Book

Business as Usual

Mattick, Paul
The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism
May 2011

Bourgeois Dignity

McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
November 2010 E-book

Bourgeois Virtues

McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Ethics for an Age of Commerce
July 2006 E-book

Lesson of Carl Schmitt

Meier, Heinrich
Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition
September 2011

Tocqueville in Arabia

Mitchell, Joshua
Dilemmas in a Democratic Age
September 2013 New Book

Last Walk

Pierce, Jessica
Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives
September 2012 New Book E-book

Interpretation and Social Knowledge

Reed, Isaac Ariail
On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
September 2011 E-book

Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
October 2012 New Book E-book

Deconstructing Dignity

Shershow, Scott Cutler
A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate
December 2013 New Book

View of Life

Simmel, Georg
Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
January 2011 E-book

Ethics of Interrogation

Skerker, Michael
May 2010 E-book

What Is a Person?

Smith, Christian
Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
September 2010 E-book

On Tyranny

Strauss, Leo
Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence
June 2013 New Book E-book

Politics without Vision

Strong, Tracy B.
Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
April 2012 E-book

Totalitarian Experience

Todorov, Tzvetan
November 2011

Awakening to Race

Turner, Jack
Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
October 2012 New Book E-book

Ideas Have Consequences

Weaver, Richard M.
Expanded Edition
October 2013 New Book

Before the Law

Wolfe, Cary
Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
December 2012 New Book E-book

Anthropology

Wulf, Christoph
A Continental Perspective
April 2013 New Book E-book

Neighbor

Zizek, Slavoj
Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface
July 2013 New Book E-book

Aesthetics

African Art as Philosophy

Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude
February 2012

Invisible Dragon

Hickey, Dave
Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
October 2012 New Book E-book

Music between Us

Higgins, Kathleen Marie
Is Music a Universal Language?
June 2012 New Book E-book

This Strange Idea of the Beautiful

Jullien, François
September 2013 New Book

Novelty

North, Michael
A History of the New
October 2013 New Book

On the Animation of the Inorganic

Papapetros, Spyros
Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life
July 2012 New Book E-book

After the Beautiful

Pippin, Robert B.
Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
November 2013 New Book

Art and Truth after Plato

Rockmore, Tom
June 2013 New Book E-book

Paul Klee

Sallis, John
Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art
September 2012 New Book

Field Guide to a New Meta-field

Stafford, Barbara
Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
June 2011

Rhythm of Thought

Wiskus, Jessica
Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty
June 2013 New Book E-book

Philosophy of Science

Intuition in Medicine

Braude, Hillel D.
A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning
May 2012 New Book E-book

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge

Collins, Harry
June 2010 E-book

Regimens of the Mind

Corneanu, Sorana
Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition
January 2012 E-book

In Search of Mechanisms

Craver, Carl F.
Discoveries across the Life Sciences
October 2013 New Book

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

Erickson, Paul
The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
October 2013 New Book

Baroque Science

Gal, Ofer
March 2013 New Book E-book

Exploring the Scientific Method

Gimbel, Steven
Cases and Questions
April 2011 E-book

Pseudoscience Wars

Gordin, Michael D.
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
September 2012 New Book E-book

Science from Sight to Insight

Gross, Alan G.
How Scientists Illustrate Meaning
November 2013 New Book

Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Kuhn, Thomas S.
50th Anniversary Edition
April 2012 E-book

Studying Human Behavior

Longino, Helen E.
How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality
January 2013 New Book E-book

Biology's First Law

McShea, Daniel W.
The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
July 2010 E-book

Unsimple Truths

Mitchell, Sandra D.
Science, Complexity, and Policy
November 2009 E-book

Observing by Hand

Nasim, Omar W.
Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century
November 2013 New Book

Michael Polanyi and His Generation

Nye, Mary Jo
Origins of the Social Construction of Science
September 2011 E-book

Cybernetic Brain

Pickering, Andrew
Sketches of Another Future
January 2011 E-book

Nonsense on Stilts

Pigliucci, Massimo
How to Tell Science from Bunk
May 2010 E-book

Philosophy of Pseudoscience

Pigliucci, Massimo
Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem
August 2013 New Book

Demands of the Day

Rabinow, Paul
On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
June 2013 New Book E-book

Gaia Hypothesis

Ruse, Michael
Science on a Pagan Planet
September 2013 New Book

Creating a Physical Biology

Sloan, Phillip R.
The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology
December 2011 E-book

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Winsberg, Eric
October 2010 E-book

Language, Logic, and Cognition

Language, Proof, and Logic

Barker-Plummer, David
Second Edition
October 2011

Deep Rhetoric

Crosswhite, James
Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom
April 2013 New Book E-book

Grammar, Geometry, and Brain

Fenstad, Jens Erik
April 2010

Formal Methods and Empirical Practices

Ferrario, Roberta
Conversations with Patrick Suppes
March 2013 New Book

Coming to Mind

Goodman, Lenn E.
The Soul and Its Body
October 2013 New Book

World Color Survey

Kay, Paul
March 2010

Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces

Kempson, Ruth
March 2011

Philosophical Approaches to Communication

Mangion, Claude
April 2011

Identity, Language, and Mind

Newen, Albert
An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry
July 2012 New Book E-book

Knowledge and Representation

Newen, Albert
September 2011

Computational Introduction to Linguistics

Ojeda, Almerindo
Describing Language in Plain Prolog
June 2013 New Book

Reference and Reflexivity

Perry, John
2nd Edition
July 2011

Emblems of Mind

Rothstein, Edward
The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
May 2006

Concept of Mind

Ryle, Gilbert
December 2000 E-book