Against the background of age-old Greek wisdom, Epicurus' advice to 'live unnoticed' (lathe biosas) was particularly provocative and scandalous. Why, after all, would an unknown Greek soldier in...

When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins...

This work constitutes a rebuttal to charges made against the Bolsheviks by Karl Kautsky in 1919. Trotsky's defense of Bolshevism is devoted to two basic questions. One is the question of the...

Dieser bisher unveroffentlichte Briefwechsel zwischen Ernst Junger und Martin Heidegger geht hervor aus Gesprachen der Nachkriegszeit uber ein grossangelegtes Zeitschriften-Projekt, an dem neben...

Martin Heidegger is among the most influential philosophers of our century, a thinker whose ideas transformed the nature of philosophy. Existentialism, Deconstruction, Marxism, theology,...

The fundamental thesis of this book [is] that the belief in historical destiny is sheer superstition, and that there can be no prediction of the course of human history by scientific or any other...

Against Affect interrogates shibboleths of feeling and reason and their relationship with ideas of identity, gender, and freedom in the twenty-first century. Lisa Downing starts with the familiar...

"Matterphorics reimagines law and legal thought as non-representational, conceptualizing it as a dynamic entanglement of matter, thought, and emergent normativities, while advancing a legal theory...

A personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.A few years ago, Didier Eribon’s mother entered a retirement home. Over the course of several...

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The Pleasures of Cocaine conveys the impartial facts of the uses and abuses of cocaine. Without bias, many different aspects are covered: History, effects, uses, pleasures, dangers Avoiding abusive...

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