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