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