- Brazil through the Eyes of William James
- Maria Helena P.T. Machado
- From 1865-1866, William James accompanied the director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology on a research expedition to Brazil. This volume is a critical, bilingual (English-Portuguese) edition of his diaries and letters and also includes reproductions of his drawings. This original material belongs to the Houghton Archives at Harvard University and is of great interest to both William James scholars and Brazilian studies experts.
- Hardcover 2006
- Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays
- W. V. Quine
- Edited by Dagfinn Follesdal
- Edited by Douglas Boynton Quine
- In the twenty years between his last collection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work and occasionally modified his position on central philosophical issues. This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quine’s prodigious career.
- Hardcover 2008
- Georg Lukács and His Generation, 1900-1918
- Mary Gluck
- Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine. Lukács emerges in this generational portrait not only as dramatic and psychologically complex but also as a representative figure whose inner dilemmas were echoed in the lives of many other radical intellectuals who came of age during the fin de siêcle period.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991
- George Henry Lewes
- Hock Guan Tjoa
- George Henry Lewes, consort of George Eliot biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic, was also a scientist and philosopher. An intellectual figure of great importance on the Victorian scene, he has never before received adequate modern scholarly appreciation. In this book Professor Tjoa not only reconstructs Lewes’ theory of criticism and his social and political opinions but also evaluates his contributions to Darwinian science both as original thinker and as popularizer.
- Hardcover 1978
- James and Royce Reconsidered
- Edited by David C. Lamberth
- Paperback 2009
- Lamentations of Youth
- Gershom Scholem
- Edited and translated by Anthony David Skinner
- For decades, Scholem kept these diaries locked away. They remained unread by others until the meticulously edited German edition appeared in 2002. Lamentations of Youth gives insight into a crucial stage in Scholem's life, a time of incubation and growth for his later ideas, and makes available the diaries where Scholem forged his anarchic orthodoxy and chronicled his intense relationship with Walter Benjamin.
- Hardcover 2008
- Leibniz’ "Universal Jurisprudence
- Patrick Riley
- Although Leibniz is universally regarded as the greatest German philosopher before Kant, his work as a political and moral philosopher is almost entirely neglected in the English-speaking world. Patrick Riley recovers this crucial part of Leibniz' thought and activity.
- Hardcover 1996
- Martin Heidegger
- Rüdiger Safranski
- Translated by Ewald Osers
- One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- Nietzsche
- Peter Berkowitz
- Nietzsche has come to be revered by postmodern thinkers as one of their founding fathers, a prophet of human liberation who broke radically with traditional forms of morality and philosophy. Peter Berkowitz challenges this new orthodoxy, asserting that it produces a one-dimensional picture of Nietzsche's philosophical explorations and passes by much of what is provocative and problematic in his thought.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Nikolai Strakhov
- Linda Gerstein
- That Strakhov was always classified by his contemporaries as a "conservative" gives his life a special significance in Russian intellectual history. In this first full-length intellectual biography in any language of Strakhov, Gerstein provides a guide both to the individual and to the amazingly complex picture of Russian intellectual life in the nineteenth century.
- Hardcover 1971
- The Passion of Michel Foucault
- James Miller
- Based on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers. It chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of personal identity.
- Paperback 2000
- A Pitch of Philosophy
- Stanley Cavell
- This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it--in all its topographical ambiguity.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1996
- Quine in Dialogue
- W. V. Quine
- Edited by Dagfinn Follesdal
- Edited by Douglas Boynton Quine
- Quine was one of the twentieth century’s great philosophers. This volume begins with a number of interviews Quine gave about his perspectives on twentieth-century logic, science and philosophy, the ideas of others, and philosophy generally. Also included are his most important articles, reviews, and comments on other philosophers, from Rudolf Carnap to P. F. Strawson.
- Hardcover 2008
- Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy
- Rüdiger Safranski
- Translated by Ewald Osers
- This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and the work of Schopenhauer. Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of philosophical predecessors and contemporaries such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and explores the sources of his profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason."
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1991
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Detlev Claussen
- Translated by Rodney Livingstone
- This book gives us our first clear look at how the man and his moment met to create “critical theory.” An intimate picture of the quintessential twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual, the book is also a window on the cultural ferment of Adorno’s day—and its ongoing importance in our own.
- Hardcover 2008