We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

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A translation of De Civitate Dei.…

Unlike his predecessors, Epictetus (c. 50 120 CE), who grew up as a slave, taught Stoicism not for the select few but for…

Seneca the Elder (?55 BCE 40 CE) collected ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least…

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

The major works of Josephus (c. 37 after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

The classical and Christian worlds meet in Boethius (c. 480 524 CE), the last writer of purely literary Latin from…

Volume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias,…

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and many of his letters have survived. Published in three volumes, Letters to Friends…

\nM. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) remains legendary for his political and military career, his integrity and austere morality,…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

• Rok vydání 2001

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and many of his letters have survived. Published in three volumes, Letters to Friends…

In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other, except perhaps his brother. These letters, in…

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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Volume III of the four-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents later philosophical systems and their…

Dealing with climate change means accepting tough tradeoffs: giving up certain energy sources, products, and conveniences,…

Volume II of the four-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to…

Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and…

Marcus Aurelius (121 180 CE), philosopher-emperor, wrote the Meditations (his title was The matters addressed to himself) in…

This is a biography of Martin Heidegger chronicling his ideas, with their debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and his…

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This text originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that John Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the…

Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old…

This first volume shows that even as a young man Walter Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His…

\nCollected here are \"Franz Kafka,\" \"Karl Kraus,\" and \"The Author as Producer,\" the meditation \"A Berlin Chronicle,\"…

This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern…

Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois's thought, Robert…

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Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,…

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\nA groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of…

This volume presents the visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino. His Platonic evangelizing was…

\nArgues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his…

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Marsilion Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology,…

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), considered the philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A…

Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" has become a classic. The author has now revised the original…

Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But his theory of development has never been…

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\nMichael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the…

This is an introduction to Jacques Lacan's approach to therapy, from the point of view of a practitioner faced with the…

Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in…

\nDoes class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural…

Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an…

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Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially egalitarian property law, showing…

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, 'Politics of Nature' establishes the conceptual context for…