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Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume Three: Freud, Alder, and Jung
Walter Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind (Volume Three: Freud, Adler, and Jung) is the monumental culmination of his decades-long intellectual engagement with the traditions of Germanic thought, psychology, and philosophy. Completed just before his untimely death in 1980, this third and final instalment of Kaufmann’s trilogy solidifies his position as one of the most discerning critics…
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The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition edited by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar is a work of immense significance, rigor, and philosophical import. It transcends the narrow confines of conventional historiography by resurrecting and critically examining the contributions of women philosophers who shaped, challenged, and extended the philosophical currents of…
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Value, Money and Capital: The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism
In Value, Money and Capital: The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism, Guido Starosta, Gastón Caligaris, and Alejandro Fitzsimons re-examine the core tenets in Marx’s theory, offering a critical intervention into the field of political economy and the study of contemporary capitalism. The book serves as both a painstaking theoretical reconstruction and a contemporary…
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Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe: The Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis
Achim Szepanski’s Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe: The Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis is a searing philosophical interrogation of the late-capitalist world system as it collides with an era of unprecedented crises. Rooted in an intricate synthesis of Marxist economic analysis and the radical critiques of Georges Bataille and Jean…
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Essays on Marx’s Capital: Summaries, Appreciations and Reconstructions
Geert Reuten’s Essays on Marx’s Capital: Summaries, Appreciations and Reconstructions is an erudite, detailed exploration of Karl Marx’s magnum opus Capital. This collection of 21 essays, written between 1991 and 2019, illuminates the intricacies of Marx’s systematic-dialectical method and the monetary value-form analysis that undergirds his critique of political economy. Reuten’s work does not merely…
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Mourning Freud
Madelon Sprengnether’s Mourning Freud is a penetrating exposition of the dynamics between Freud’s personal experiences of mourning and the evolution of psychoanalytic theory throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This richly textured work unravels the psychological, biographical, and cultural dimensions of Freud’s life, situating his struggles with loss at the nexus of his theoretical framework,…
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‘Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis’ by Sigmund Freud
Few works in the field of psychology have endured with as much intellectual consequence, as much capacity to provoke thought and reflection, and as much historical gravitas as Sigmund Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. The present edition, translated by G. Stanley Hall, is not merely a straightforward rendering of Freud’s original German text, but as…
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Lacan and Language: A Reader’s Guide to Écrits
This book stands as an extraordinarily rigorous and lucidly subtle instrument designed to guide any serious reader through the labyrinthine terrain that constitutes Jacques Lacan’s Écrits. Its authors, John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, address themselves to a daunting intellectual challenge: to bring into focus a complex variety of thought in which Jacques Lacan’s…
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The Ages of the World (1811)
This extraordinary volume presents the earliest existing draft of F. W. J. Schelling’s The Ages of the World (Die Weltalter) from 1811, translated and introduced by Joseph P. Lawrence. It is a document of immeasurable significance for those who would understand not just Schelling’s philosophical evolution and the epoch of German Idealism, but also the…
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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life is a work that both demands and resists easy classification, emerging as a monumental philosophical opus crafted in the wake of catastrophe and sustained by an unremitting critical energy. Written by Theodor W. Adorno, one of the most mercilessly lucid and unflinchingly honest thinkers of the twentieth century, it…
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Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger
Waller R. Newell’s Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger invites the reader into a vast intellectual landscape stretching from the twilight of the ancient world to the cataclysms of twentieth-century totalitarianism and beyond. In its scope, it captures the restless efforts of modern philosophers, beginning with Rousseau, to restore a sense of integral community and…
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In the Presence of Schopenhauer
In the Presence of Schopenhauer by Michel Houellebecq is a book whose entire existence seems predicated on unveiling a hidden yet all-pervasive gravitational field of philosophical influence that radiates silently from the works of a German philosopher whose name we instinctively associate with both radical pessimism and a fierce, unyielding quest for fundamental truth. This…
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‘Being and Truth’ by Martin Heidegger
In Martin Heidegger’s Being and Truth, one encounters a text of extraordinary philosophical and interpretive complexity, a work that demands a kind of attentiveness beyond the usual forms of philosophical reading, a work which emerges from a time and place marked by intense political upheaval and ideological fervor. These lectures, delivered in 1933–1934, originate in…
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Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason
Normativity and the Will by R. Jay Wallace is a remarkable engagement with some of the most pressing and conceptually subtle issues at the intersection of ethical theory, moral psychology, and the theory of practical reason. In this volume, Wallace collects fourteen of his own seminal essays, each of which provides a robust philosophical framework…
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Tariq Ali’s The Lenin Scenario
Within the pages of The Lenin Scenario, Tariq Ali ventures into historical imagination with extraordinary rigor, constructing a scenario as lucid in its detail as it is alive in its philosophical implications. What we encounter here is no mere screenplay, no ordinary chronology of events, but a painstakingly accurate dramatic blueprint for the cinematic interpretation…
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Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study
This book is an inquiry into the development between Lenin’s wartime philosophical notebooks on Hegel and the broader trajectory of Marxist thought, stretching from the crisis of the Second International through to debates in Western Marxism that reached well beyond Lenin’s own historical moment. In Kevin Anderson’s Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study,…
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
In The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, Antony Loewenstein presents a searing, unflinching, and extraordinary portrait of a modern state’s well-honed machinery of violence and surveillance, grown and cultivated through decades of controlling and subjugating the Palestinian population in the occupied territories, and then refashioned, rebranded, and sold…
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I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv by Illia Ponomarenko is a sprawling, unflinchingly intimate immersion into a conflict that most would prefer to keep at arm’s length. It is the book that punctures the neat categories of “us and them,” “invader and invaded,” and “hero and villain,” forcing readers…
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Psychoanalysis after Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition
In Psychoanalysis After Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition, Judy Gammelgaard undertakes a deeply philosophical exploration of the lingering significance, as well as the profound transformations, of Freud’s psychoanalytic project in the aftermath of his momentous discoveries. Drawing on several of Freud’s lesser-known works, Gammelgaard positions herself at a contemporary interpretive vantage point from which she…
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Freud’s Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body
Freud’s Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body by Rob White is an extraordinary and challenging intellectual venture into the most recalcitrant territories of Freudian theory, a work that refashions our understanding not only of Freud’s controversial notion of inherited memory but also of the deep melancholic undertow that runs through his entire conceptual edifice.…
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Lacan and the Limits of Language
Lacan and the Limits of Language by Charles Shepherdson is an extraordinarily rigorous analysis of the intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and the life sciences, a painstakingly elaborate exploration that refuses the comfort of established disciplinary boundaries and invites the reader to confront, with fearless intellectual candor, the fundamental questions that arise when language meets…
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
The following text is a depiction so unrelenting in the thoroughness of its philosophical inquiry, so immoderate in the density of its conceptual detail, that it seems to stand as a great cavern of thought into which the attentive reader must plunge, armed with nothing but the steadfastness of one’s reason and the lucidity of…
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Nietzsche and the Shadow of God
Nietzsche and the Shadow of God is a work that ventures into the fraught terrain where Nietzsche’s philosophy confronts the two-thousand-year-old religious heritage of the West. Didier Franck’s study, here introduced for the first time to English-speaking audiences through a careful and readable translation by Bettina Bergo and Philippe Farah, does not aim at either…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
This new edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, with a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Josefine Nauckhoff and introduced by Bernard Williams, offers a transformative encounter with one of Nietzsche’s central works, a text that the philosopher himself once described as “perhaps my most personal book.” Written at…
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Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
In approaching the Revised Edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, as translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann, with an introduction and introductory notes by Arthur C. Danto, one is immediately struck by the unique historical and philosophical significance of this work and by the profound care with…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits presents a striking departure from his earlier, more romantic and metaphysical works, marking a pivotal moment in his intellectual evolution. This collection, which contains almost 1,400 aphorisms, was originally published in three installments between 1878 and 1880. It reflects Nietzsche’s shift from his previous…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day
Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day (1881), translated by J. M. Kennedy, is a seminal work in the development of Nietzsche’s philosophical journey, bridging his earlier explorations and his later, more fully developed ideas. The book, a collection of aphorisms and prose poems, represents a profound moment in Nietzsche’s intellectual maturation. Written during a period…
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Nietzsche: Daybreak – Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
In Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Nietzsche embarks on a bold critique of traditional morality that not only challenges its assumptions but also lays the groundwork for his larger philosophical project—a radical revaluation of values that would come to define his mature work. The book represents a significant turning point in Nietzsche’s intellectual…
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Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
In Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period, Paul Franco offers a comprehensive and insightful presentation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works from his so-called middle period, a phase often overlooked or misunderstood in the broader sweep of Nietzschean scholarship. This middle period consists of three central works—Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay…
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