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Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested
Mass Moralizing: Marketing and Moral Storytelling
Phil Hopkins
The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance
New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
A Commentary on Plato’s Meno
The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution In the Thought of Alexander Hamilton
Maxwell’s Mathematical Rhetoric: Rethinking the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Thomas K. Simpson
Figures of Thought: A Literary Appreciation of Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Thomas K. Simpson
Disorienting Dharma: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata
Emily T. Hudson
The End of the Ancient Republic: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Cities and Transcendence: Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy
Jonathan Badger
The Eccentric Core: The Thought of Seth Benardete
Seth Benardete
Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero
A Commentary on the Book of Genesis
Robert D. Sacks
Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know
Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner
Carol Colatrella
Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings of Ancient Poetry and Philosophy
Seth Benardete
The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
The Civic Spectacle: Essays on Drama and Community
Hyperboles The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought
Christopher D. Johnson
Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity: Guide to a First Reading
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis
David O'Hara
The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates’ Conversations and Plato’s Writings
Then and Now: The World’s Center and the Soul’s Demesne
Socrates and Plato: The Dialectics of Eros
Seth Benardete
Greek Antiquity in Schiller’s Wallenstein
Looking Back from the Vision: Trinitarian Structure in the Comedia
Tapping the Wellsprings of Action: Aristotle’s Birth of Tragedy as a Mimesis of Praxis
Three Dialogues on Liberal Education
Heidegger’s Philosophic Pedagogy
Frodo’s Wound: Why The Lord of the Rings Is a Great Book
Krishnan Venkatesh
Principle & Propensity: Experience and Religion in the Nineteenth Century British and American Bildungsroman
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
Andrew Hui
Rousseau’s Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction
Nelson Lund
The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato’s Philebus
Seth Benardete
Rousseau’s Critique of Science: A Commentary on the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter
Andrew Hui
A Commentary on Plato’s Protagoras
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
Zusha Elinson
Plato’s Laws: The Discovery of Being
Seth Benardete
The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do About It
John Agresto
Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement
Reb Zalman Gathers Figs: A Study of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Reading of Biblical Text to Re-Vision Judaism for the Present Day
An Approach to Aristotle’s Physics: With Particular Attention to the Role of his Manner of Writing
Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century
Eric Springsted
The Insufficiency of Virtue: Macbeth and the Natural Order
The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus
Seth Benardete
Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature
Leslie Lewis
Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone
Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
Castiglione’s Allegory: Veiled Policy in The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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