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Philosophy
Aristotle’s Politics
Joe Sachs
Descartes: Discourse on Method
Socrates and the Sophists: Plato’s Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus
Joe Sachs
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything
Graham Harman
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Joe Sachs
Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound
Levinas’s Existential Analytic: A Commentary on Totality and Infinity
James Mensch
Hiddenness and Alterity: Philosophical and Literary Sightings of the Unseen
James Mensch
Castiglione’s Allegory: Veiled Policy in The Book of the Courtier (1528)
The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates’ Conversations and Plato’s Writings
Tapping the Wellsprings of Action: Aristotle’s Birth of Tragedy as a Mimesis of Praxis
An Approach to Aristotle’s Physics: With Particular Attention to the Role of his Manner of Writing
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis
David O'Hara
What, Then, Is Time?
Decisions and Transformations: The Phenomenology of Embodiment
James Mensch
Heidegger’s Philosophic Pedagogy
Plato’s Trilogy: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman
The Ideas of Socrates
Art + Objects
Graham Harman
The Eccentric Core: The Thought of Seth Benardete
Seth Benardete
Being Human: Core Readings in the Humanities
Aristotle’s Poetics
Joe Sachs
Herodotean Inquiries
Seth Benardete
Xenophon’s Socratic Works.
David Johnson
How to Constitute a World: Outside In, Inside Out
Socrates and Plato: The Dialectics of Eros
Seth Benardete
Plato’s Republic
Joe Sachs
Heroic Habits: Discovering the Soul’s Potential for Greatness
Randall Sullivan
Aristotle and Rational Discovery: Speaking of Nature
Russell Winslow
Plato’s Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete
Seth Benardete
Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, With Texts
Aakash Singh
Profound Ignorance: Plato’s Charmides and the Saving of Wisdom
The Logos of Heraclitus: The First Philosopher of the West on Its Most Interesting Term
Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia: with On the Motion of Animals
Plato’s Dialogue on Friendship: An Interpretation of the Lysis, with a New Translation
Plato’s Theaetetus: Part I of The Being of the Beautiful
Plato Statesman
, Peter Kalkavage, Eric Salem
Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement
Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
Newton’s Principia: The Central Argument
, William H. Donahue
Plato Sophist: The Professor of Wisdom
Socrates and Athens
David Johnson
Roots of Yoga
Mark Singleton
Plato Symposium: Or Drinking Party
, Peter Kalkavage, Eric Salem
Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture
Warspeak: Nietzsche’s Victory over Nihilism
Lise van Boxel
Odyssey
The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus
Seth Benardete
Plato’s Sophist: Part II of The Being of the Beautiful
The Unity of Plato’s Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life
Devin Stauffer
Husserl’s Account of Our Consciousness of Time
James Mensch
Plato’s Laws: The Discovery of Being
Seth Benardete
Rediscovering Political Friendship: Aristotle’s Theory and Modern Identity, Community, and Equality
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die
Aristotle’s De Anima (On soul)
Un-Willing: An Inquiry Into the Rise of Will’s Power and an Attempt to Undo It
Plato’s Statesman: Part III of The Being of the Beautiful
The Quadruple Object
Graham Harman
Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested
One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity
Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment
Rousseau’s Critique of Science: A Commentary on the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings of Ancient Poetry and Philosophy
Seth Benardete
Sacred Transgressions: A Reading of Sophocles’ Antigone
Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century
Eric Springsted
Organism and Environment: Inheritance and Subjectivity in the Life Sciences
Russell Winslow
Plato: Gorgias and Aristotle: Rhetoric
Joe Sachs
The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice
Michael Strong
Aristotle’s Physics: A Guided Study
Joe Sachs
Then and Now: The World’s Center and the Soul’s Demesne
Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
A Commentary on Plato’s Meno
Gilbert Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
John Rogove
Three Dialogues on Liberal Education
Wakefulness and World: An Invitation to Philosophy
The Harmony of the Soul: Mental Health and Moral Virtue Reconsidered
Neal Weiner
Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy
The Mathematical Experience
, Reuben Hersh
On Modern Origins: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy (Applications of Political Theory)
The Aristotelian Tradition of Natural Kinds and Its Demise
Stewart Umphrey
Knowing and Being: A Postmodern Reversal
James Mensch
The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy
Seth Benardete
Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know
The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition
Jonathan Zecher
A Commentary on Plato’s Protagoras
Doublethink / Doubletalk: Naturalizing Second Thoughts and Twofold Speech
The Being of the Beautiful: Plato’s Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Seth Benardete
Lost in Thought: the Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Feigning: On the Originals of Fictive Images
Cities and Transcendence: Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy
Jonathan Badger
Symbolic Distance in Relation to Analogy and Fiction
Socrates’ Second Sailing: On Plato’s Republic
Seth Benardete
Possibility
Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects
Graham Harman
Voices That Endured: The Great Books and the Active Life
Stringfellow Barr
Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy
Devin Stauffer
Echoes Of No Thing: Thinking Between Heidegger and Dōgen
Nico Jenkins
Aristotle On Poetics
The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance
Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl
Open Secrets / Inward Prospects: Reflections on World and Soul
Sky in a Bottle
Niccolò Machiavelli: Mandragola
The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing
Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero
The Factor of Faith: Religion and Resistance to Nazism
Beate Ruhm Von Oppen
Greek Antiquity in Schiller’s Wallenstein
The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato’s Philebus
Seth Benardete
Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Stephen White
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