American Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in...

This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's...

In the "Phaedrus" Plato(427-347 B.C.) is concerned with establishing the principles of rhetoric. Through the mouths of Socrates and Phaedrus he argues that rhetoric is only acceptable as an art when...

Drei grosse Lehrmeister haben durch ihre Gedanken und Sprache auf meine eigenen Denkversuche bestimmend eingewirkt: Hebel, Husserl und Heidegger. Meine Studien zu diesen grossen Denkern sind, neu...

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the...

Introduction; I. The Plan of the Categories; II. Nonsubstantial Individuals; III. Commitment and Configuration in the Categories; IV. Tales of the Two Treatises; V. The Structure and Substance of...

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This 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues. The author argues that Plato's 'dialogues' with traditional genres are...

This book is an investigation into Aristotle's metaphysics of nature, and, in particular, his concept of change as expounded in the Physics.

Subjects covered in this, the third and last, volume of translation of this work include: why the elements are four in number; what's wrong with Empedocles' theory of elements; how homogeneous...

Book by Philoponus

Text: English (translation)Original Language: Greek

"In Categories Chapters 7 and 8, Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that...

This is the only modern English translation with commentary in print of this important treatise by Hermogenes of Tarsus (AD C.160-225). The book makes sophisticated theories of argument developed by...

Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini’s police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly...

Theodor W. Adorno—philosopher, cultural critic, sociologist, and music theorist—was one of the most important German intellectuals of the twentieth century. This concise, readable life is the first...