"An accessible primer on aesthetics in art and everyday life, written by artist and scholar Walead Beshty. In this general guide to the foundations of aesthetics, Walead Beshty introduces the...

Draws on a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy, to examine the imaginary boundaries people have drawn around themselves and other cultures and to challenge people...

In El anticristo, Friedrich Niezsche presents his sharpest critique of Judeo-Christian morality. Under attack are compassion, weakness, and the beliefs that came to constitute Western society after...

A LUCID, BALANCED INTRODUCTION TO NIETZSCHE'S LIFE AND THOUGHT Translated into English for the first time, Mazzino Montinari's classic introduction to Nietzsche is remarkable for its clarity,...

`There is a rather ironic turn of events in store for philosophy in this and the next few decades if the conception of the philosophy of language presented in this monograph correctly represents the...

A master piece of dramatic dialogue, Plato has few rivals, and in The Symposium he is at his most incisive and entertaining.

"Finally I understand what it is I've been laughing at all these years."--Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of...

McCawley supplements his earlier book--which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic--with new material on the logic of...

Unquestionably one of the most original and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Wittgenstein is often thought to have fathered two wholly dissimilar and disconnected philosophies. But,...

"Scott B. Ritner argues that the antifascist philosopher and mystic Simone Weil's critical writings about the social crises of the mid-twentieth century, especially fascism, are particularly...

""In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity - even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same...

A biography of the philosopher and political revolutionary describes his childhood and family life along with his public life as an agitator and dissident and compares him to his contemporaries.

"From the revered public intellectual, an essential treatise on the political preconditions of a liberal society. Liberalism has always suffered from its conceptual muddiness. Its meanings differ...

"In this love letter to Europe, Sloterdijk's aim is to counter the skepticism, ingratitude and resentment which characterises the European self-negation of today. In Sloterdijk's view, the true...

"Behind the headlines, a struggle between two opposing philosophical visions has shaped the course of international efforts to save the planet from global warming. The liberal cosmopolitanism of...

"Language is a major part of what makes us human. We effortlessly attach meaning to sounds and marks, in themselves meaningless, to convey to one another our beliefs, desires, intentions, and other...

Now in paperback, an insightful analysis of the great theorist's most unusual work: a diverse collection of radio broadcasts for children.  In light of the legendary difficulty of Walter Benjamin's...

"A critical history of the recurring idea that technology will free us from work and bring about a truly democratic society. In popular thought, ancient Athens endures as a place ahead of its...

"People strongly disagree about life-and-death issues, including vaccines, immigration, religion, and climate change. When it comes to changing someone's mind, many of the time-tested methods are...

A concise yet rich biography of the great eighteenth-century German philosopher. The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) lived with a single-minded dedication to the moral education of...