New Insights into 18th Century Philosophy
This book offers, for the first time English, some of the most important early writings by the great German philosopher Johann Nicolaus Tetens (1736-1807). The first 36 pages consist of…
Poetry on its own Terms
In the Republic, Plato famously remarked that “there is an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry.” He also refused to include most types of poetry in his ideal city. Without…
Life Through an Unfiltered Lens
This book is not for the timid or unabashed. Written by Elise Krentzel of Austin, it details the raw, earthy, family details of a dysfunctional family. It is her first…
History Returning From the Past
Hegel stated that Europe was the “Centre and end of History.” In a chapter by Suresh Sharma, where she gives this quote by Hegel, she writes that by the early…
Ancient Latin Poetry Books
What is a poem? That is the question Gabriel Macedo (University of Liège in Belgium) tackles at the outset of this book. While the ancient Romans left us few theoretical…
Achilles and the Black Cloud of Grief
In this book on the futility of longing for the dead, Professor Emily Austin of the University of Chicago explores the reaction of Achilles to the loss of his compatriot…
Jan. 6 and the Ancient Greek Poet Simonides
Proving that poetry is the path to eternity, we have here a large book on Simonides. While most of the leaders and military generals of that long ago time when…
Building Democracy
The built environment is something we often take for granted. For example, if you were born in London anytime in the last century, the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace…
Diderot: Prose of the World
This book could have been subtitled The Many Faces of Diderot. Like the 1957 film Man of a Thousand Faces, even the world expert on Diderot, who authored this, can’t…
The Story of Undersea Cables
In lively prose that transforms an otherwise dull subject into an exciting adventure story, Dr Bruce Hunt of the University of Texas in Austin has written a book on how…