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An Interpretation of Nietzsche's On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:07:16 +0000

In this monograph, Anthony K. Jensen provides a critical analysis and guide to Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life, revealing a text that offers insight into the most important aspects of Nietzsche’s then-contemporary philosophy of history. Jensen contextualize..

Price: $233.99

Rousseau

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:12:29 +0000

Timothy O'Hagan offers us an up-to-date, well researched, and ground breaking interpretation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work and crucial contribution to philosophical thought.

Price: $233.99

Nietzsche's Life Sentence (Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:30:53 +0000

In this book Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically in every detail. Hatab argues that eternal recurrence can and..

Price: $233.99

Videogame Formalism (On Form, Aesthetic Experience and Methodology)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:14:54 +0000

This book addresses issues through an exploration of the historical and theoretical roots of formalist approaches to videogame analysis, situating this approach within games studies, and arguing for its importance and applicability as a methodological toolkit and a theoretical framework for unders..

Price: $64.99

Remains - Jacques Derrida (Text and Commentary)

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:48:29 +0000

In a very late essay, “Remain(s)—The Master, or the Supplement of Infinity,” authored just two years before his death, Derrida conjoins two registers or fields of research, bringing together his early and his late work. In this complex and illuminating work, an analogy is drawn between two vastly ..

Price: $24.95

Modern Thought in Pain (Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis)

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:48:06 +0000

Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. The book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory term..

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Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:21:50 +0000

What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through representative texts of English Romanticism, while also considering some European phi..

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The Prisoner's Philosophy (Life and Death in Boethius's Consolation)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:47:06 +0000

The Roman philosopher Boethius (c. 480-524) is best known for the Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most frequently cited texts in medieval literature. In the Consolation, an unnamed Boethius sits in prison awaiting execution when his muse Philosophy appears to him. Her of..

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Plato's Literary Garden (How to Read a Platonic Dialogue)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:43:23 +0000

Plato's dialogues are universally acknowledged as standing among the masterworks of the Western philosophic tradition. What most readers do not know, however, is that Plato also authored a public letter in which he unequivocally denies ever having written a work of philosophy. If Plato did not ..

Price: $35.00

Ricoeur on Time and Narrative (An Introduction to Temps et récit)

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:17:25 +0000

“The object of this book,” writes William C. Dowling in his preface, “is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument.” The sources of puzzlement are, he notes, many. For some, it..

Price: $30.00