Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic (Corngold Stanley)(Paperback)

Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic (Corngold Stanley)(Paperback)

The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Kaufmann Walter A.)(Paperback)

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: Basic Writings of Existentialism by Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Others (Kaufmann Walter)(Paperback)

The Storyteller Essays (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback)

A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, 'The Storyteller,' this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work. 'The Storyteller' is one of Walter

One-Way Street and Other Writings (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback / softback)

Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This title brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'Unpacking My Library'; 'One-Way Street'; 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic (Rowland Ingrid D.)(Paperback)

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo-a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great

The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard Soren)(Paperback)

Translated from the Danish by Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Alexander Dru The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and

Walter Benjamin - Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (Eagleton Terry)(Paperback / softback)

From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural

Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' (Lowy Michael)(Paperback)

This illuminating study of Benjamin's final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism--Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an