A founding figure of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard is perhaps best known for his writing on anxiety and despair, particularly in such works as Fear and Trembling, The Concept of Anxiety, and The Sickness unto Death. Yet love, too, is a common theme...

This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader...

A persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements.Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, many people today are unfamiliar with the basic...

Importante obra do italiano Norberto Bobbio retorna às livrarias em edição revista, ampliada e com nova capa. Estado, governo, sociedade é um livro para quem deseja pensar a crise de nossa época sem dogmatismos, buscando reorganizar as bases da...

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Text: English, Italian (translation)

“Labor is the living, form-giving fire,” Marx wrote. “It is the transitoriness of things, their temporality, as their transformation by living time.” How is it, then, that labor, with all its life-affirming potential, has become the means of capitalist...

These essays in aesthetics by the philosopher Ernst Bloch belong to the tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin. Bloch's fascination with art as a reflection of both social realities and human...

The Idea of Nature propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology, the Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View...

"The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark...

Hegel's system of philosophy was not only the leading form of metaphysics during his lifetime, but it has taken on increasing significance in our own time. The main element in this compact collection of Hegel's thought is an eagerly awaited new...

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), one of the founders of critical theory has become a subject of renewed attention and appreciation in Germany in the last decade, especially since the publication of the German edition of his Collected Works in 1985. This...

The two collections combined in this volume -- Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969) -- are passionate examples of Adorno's postwar commitment to unmasking the culture that engendered Nazism and its...

Hegel offers perhaps the most profound and systematic modern attempt to understand the state as the realization of human freedom. In this examination of the philosopher’s ideas on freedom, Paul Franco focuses particularly on G. W. F. Hegel’s masterpiece,...

A timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more humane society "[A] short but moving book . . . Even better, the volume's advice is not only pragmatically political--necessary...

A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . . A wonderful introduction for anyone who's...

" . . . elegant and provocative . . . Exhibit[s] a subtle mastery of Heidegger's works." ―Review of Metaphysics" . . . splendidly precise study of Heidegger . . . to be recommended not only to Heidegger scholars but also to those interested in the...