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Philosophers at Table On Food and Being Human
Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa Heldke “Boisvert and Heldke are proceeding from our shared, lived experience as people with stomachs, so prior familiarity with the work of Immanuel Kant and Rene Descartes is not needed. The book is carved with that crisp, clear precision common to academic philosophy texts, never advancing any idea an inch without a concise explanation of its origin.”—PopMatters Distributed for Reaktion Books
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The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem “These letters illuminate the historical record by placing into context and documenting not only the profound differences between these powerful personalities but also their commonalities, shared activities, interests, and loyalties.” —Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the German edition
2016 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 181 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-588-2 $22.50 Your Price: $8.00
2017 336 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones 185 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-92451-9 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00
A Philosophy of Dirt
Arendt and America
Olli Lagerspetz “Lagerspetz traces the ideological links that have existed, at least since the Enlightenment, between cleanliness and self-discipline, and conversely between dirt and the surrender to animal instincts. . . . Cleanliness is not just contiguous to godliness, but in some deep-rooted way constitutive of it. You cannot be pure in spirit if you live in a pigsty.”—Boundless Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books
2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 182 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-918-7 $24.00 Your Price: $8.00
A Philosophy of Freedom Lars Svendsen Freedom of speech, religion, choice, will—humans have fought, and continue to fight, for all of these. But what is human freedom, really? Taking a broad approach across metaphysics, politics, and ethics, Svendsen explores this question in his engaging book, while also looking at the threats freedom faces today. Though our behaviors, thoughts, and actions are restricted by social and legal rules, deadlines, and burdens, Svendsen argues that the fundamental requirement for living a human life is the ability to be free. Distributed for Reaktion Books
2014 288 p. 6 x 9 183 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-370-3 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00
A Philosophy of Pain
Arne Vetlesen “Vetlesen has produced a wideranging volume that begins with an examination of central cases of pain (including physical pain and psychic pain). . . . Vetlesen finds much to criticize in the culturally anemic modern world of youth violence, reality television, and a general lack of shame.”—Choice Distributed for Reaktion Books
2009 176 p. 4 3/4 x 78/9 184 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-541-7 $27.95 Your Price: $9.00
Richard H. King “King’s great contribution to the literature on Arendt is to show, in fine-grained terms, how her political theory was the result of a quintessentially American experience: to arrive on American shores an immigrant, to draw on resources from both an old country and a new, imagined one, and to participate in the riot of reinvention.” —Los Angeles Review of Books 2015 416 p. 6 x 9 186 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31149-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00 187 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56553-8 $25.00 Your Price: $8.00
Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy
Peter Trawny “Only Trawny, at this point, has offered the kind of sustained interpretation of the anti-Semitic passages in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks that we need if we are to determine for ourselves just how far his thought is compromised by these revelations. In the present book, he shows in precise and rigorous ways the specific challenges that these passages present to those readings of Heidegger that attempt to minimize the role his association with National Socialism should play in the assessment of his thought.” —Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University 2016 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 188 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30373-4 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00
The History of Continental Philosophy
Edited by Alan D. Schrift “This landmark series provides the first comprehensive history of continental philosophy. . . . Every scholar of continental philosophy will have occasion to turn to it often.” —Michael Naas, DePaul University 2010 3040 p. 9-volume set 6 x 9 189 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74046-1 $924.00 Your Price: $199.00
Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy
Robert B. Pippin “Pippin presents a much-needed new approach and appreciation of Nietzsche. . . . [He] adroitly starts fresh with Nietzsche, considering his work holistically and in the context of both early psychology and 19th-century French morality. In his novel reading, Pippin exposes the folly of underappreciating Nietzsche’s irony and self-criticism.” —Choice 2010 152 p. 6 x 9 190 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66975-5 $35.00 Your Price: $13.00 191 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-66976-2 $28.00 Your Price: $9.00
Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento
Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit
Paolo D’Iorio “This book is the detailed description of a metamorphosis, a break in the life and thought of Nietzsche, a ‘crisis’ from which the birth of the ‘philosophy of the free spirit’ was born.”—Libération “Although this account of Nietzsche’s travels is confined to the time he was in Sorrento, it is valuable for tracing the philosopher’s intellectual thought. . . . This is a pleasant, instructive read.”—Choice 2016 168 p. 6 x 9 34 halftones 192 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16456-4 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00
The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll
Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death
Ben-Ami Scharfstein “The book makes vivid and compelling Scharfstein’s long standing opposition to philosophical selfisolation.”—Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University “A set of reflections on Scharfstein’s life and work that provides stimulation and pleasure in equal measure to heart and mind. It belongs in every civilized person’s library.”—Hilary Putnam, Harvard University 2014 256 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 193 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-10575-8 $48.00 Your Price: $13.00
