By: Sloterdijk, Peter
Hardcover | $34.95 | 9781584351047
The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and...
By: Sloterdijk, Peter
Hardcover | $39.95 | 9781584351603
The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.
--from Globes
In Globes--the second, and longest, volume in Peter...
By: Sloterdijk, Peter
Hardcover | $39.95 | 9781584351870
The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries."So the One Orb has imploded--now the foams are alive."
--from Foams
Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres...
By: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Hardcover | $48.00 | 9780226748238
The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the...
By: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Paperback | $32.00 | 9780226748429
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works...
By: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Hardcover | $48.00 | 9780226013602
The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic...
By: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Paperback | $38.00 | 9780226748337
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in...
By: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Paperback | $27.50 | 9780226748399
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works...
By: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
BC | $30.00 | 9780226212227
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works...
By: Lispector, Clarice
Paperback | $14.95 | 9780811219907
A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically...
By: Szabo, Magda
Paperback | $17.95 | 9781590177716
One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original
The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-...
By: Dickinson, Emily; Bervin, Jen
Hardcover | $14.95 | 9780811225823
Although a very prolific poet--and arguably America's greatest--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and...
By: Foldenyi, Laszlo
Hardcover | $35.00 | 9780300167481
A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Földényi's extraordinary
Melancholy, with its profusion of literary...
By: Spinoza, Benedictus de; Curley
Hardcover | $58.00 | 9780691167633
The second and final volume of the most authoritative English-language edition of Spinoza's writings
The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based...
By: Homer; Wilson, Emily (trans.)
Paperback | $18.95 | 9780393356250
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.
This fresh,...
By: Ingalls, Rachel
Paperback | $13.95 | 9780811226691
In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research... Reviewers have compared Rachel...
By: Pessoa, Fernando
Hardcover | $24.95 | 9780811226936
The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first...
By: Virgil; Ferry, David
Hardcover | $35.00 | 9780226450186
This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry's life: a complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics have...
By: Diogenes Laertius
Hardcover | $44.95 | 9780190862176
Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to
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By: Rehm, Pam
Paperback | $14.95 | 9780981952086
Poetry. THE LARGER NATURE addresses the longing to be at home everywhere. With characteristic humility, Pam Rehm seeks the common roots of life, proposing that Whatever lives / lives equally with me. Through austere language and an abstract, associational logic, she filters out the noise of so much...
