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