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History of the Kingdom of Naples

From the Normans to 1860

by Benedetto Croce ...

Translated by Marian Ashcombe ...

This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introduction• 33 editor's notes• 10 illustrationsWhat if a kingdom could endure for seven centuries without ever becoming a nation? Benedetto Croce's History of the Kingdom of Naples takes up one of the most discouraging subjects in European history — the long life of the Kingdom, from the Norman-Swabian monarchy to the fall of the Bourbon ... Read more

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This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introduction• 33 editor's notes• 10 illustrationsWhat if a kingdom could endure for seven centuries without ever becoming a nation? Benedetto Croce's History of the Kingdom of Naples takes up one of the most discouraging subjects in European history — the long life of the Kingdom, from the Norman-Swabian monarchy to the fall of the Bourbon
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The New Woman

Freedom, Education and the Veil in Egypt

by Qasim Amin ...

Translated by Marian Ashcombe ...

This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionEvery society is built at home, long before a child walks into a classroom — and the person doing the building, argues Qasim Amin, is the mother. That single claim drives The New Woman, a book that takes the most ordinary material of daily life, the raising of children and the ordering of a household, and treats it as the hinge ... Read more

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This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionEvery society is built at home, long before a child walks into a classroom — and the person doing the building, argues Qasim Amin, is the mother. That single claim drives The New Woman, a book that takes the most ordinary material of daily life, the raising of children and the ordering of a household, and treats it as the hinge
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The Artist and the Thinker (Translated)

An Essay

by Alois Riehl ...

Translated by Marian Ashcombe ...

This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionOne of the earliest book-length studies of Nietzsche ever published asks the question his admirers preferred to avoid: is this a philosopher at all? Alois Riehl, a leading Neo-Kantian, refuses to answer with a simple yes or no. He redefines the word instead — and builds his portrait of Nietzsche out of Nietzsche's own colours ... Read more

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This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionOne of the earliest book-length studies of Nietzsche ever published asks the question his admirers preferred to avoid: is this a philosopher at all? Alois Riehl, a leading Neo-Kantian, refuses to answer with a simple yes or no. He redefines the word instead — and builds his portrait of Nietzsche out of Nietzsche's own colours
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Thought and Reality (Translated) (Annotated)

Rebuilding critical philosophy against metaphysics and empiricism

by African Spir ...

Translated by Marian Ashcombe ...

This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introduction• Editor's notes• Notes to the textSome books argue; this one dismantles. Thought and Reality sets out to rebuild critical philosophy from the ground up on a single, unyielding principle, and then follows that principle into territory few philosophers have been willing to enter. Nietzsche owned a copy and read it closely; ... Read more

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This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introduction• Editor's notes• Notes to the textSome books argue; this one dismantles. Thought and Reality sets out to rebuild critical philosophy from the ground up on a single, unyielding principle, and then follows that principle into territory few philosophers have been willing to enter. Nietzsche owned a copy and read it closely;
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Causes and Cures (Translated)

The Cosmos, the Human Body, and Disease in Medieval Medicine

by Hildegard of Bingen ...

Translated by Marian Ashcombe ...

This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionWhat if the human body were a small copy of the sky, and a fever the same event as a storm, only smaller? Hildegard of Bingen's Causes and Cures sets out to show exactly that, and it does so with an imagination that still startles: the world is built first, element by element, light and winds and waters, before the book ever ... Read more

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This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionWhat if the human body were a small copy of the sky, and a fever the same event as a storm, only smaller? Hildegard of Bingen's Causes and Cures sets out to show exactly that, and it does so with an imagination that still startles: the world is built first, element by element, light and winds and waters, before the book ever
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The Greek Sceptics (Translated) (Annotated)

A history of Greek scepticism from Pyrrho to Sextus Empiricus

by Victor Brochard ...

Translated by Marian Ashcombe ...

This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introduction• Editor's notes• Notes to the textCan anything be known for certain — and how are you supposed to live if the answer is no? That question runs through Victor Brochard's The Greek Sceptics, a landmark history of ancient scepticism that has shaped how the subject is studied and argued over ever since.Brochard follows doubt from ... Read more

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This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introduction• Editor's notes• Notes to the textCan anything be known for certain — and how are you supposed to live if the answer is no? That question runs through Victor Brochard's The Greek Sceptics, a landmark history of ancient scepticism that has shaped how the subject is studied and argued over ever since.Brochard follows doubt from
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On Resistance to Evil by Force

Against Tolstoy: The Moral Case for Resisting Evil

by Ivan Ilyin ...

Translated by Marian Ashcombe ...

This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionCan a person who sincerely seeks moral perfection take up the sword against evil — and can anyone who believes in God honestly refuse to? Ivan Ilyin's On Resistance to Evil by Force presses that question harder than almost any book you will read, and it gives none of the comfortable answers. It is a work of moral philosophy that ... Read more

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This edition includes:• New English translation• Critical introductionCan a person who sincerely seeks moral perfection take up the sword against evil — and can anyone who believes in God honestly refuse to? Ivan Ilyin's On Resistance to Evil by Force presses that question harder than almost any book you will read, and it gives none of the comfortable answers. It is a work of moral philosophy that
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On the Genealogy of Morals

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert C. Holub ...

Translated by Michael A. Scarpitti ...

The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book does much more than that, elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of Beyond Good and Evil and ... Read more

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The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book does much more than that, elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of Beyond Good and Evil and
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On the Suffering of the World

by Arthur Schopenhauer ...

A collection of the later writings of Arthur Schopenhauer whose “reputation as the bard of pessimism makes him the perfect philosopher for the Covid era” (New York Times).Schopenhauer’s writings tap into the anxieties of our modern, uncertain world—from climate change and mental health crises to the threat of mass extinction.Produced during the last decades of Schopenhauer’s long life, these texts ... Read more

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A collection of the later writings of Arthur Schopenhauer whose “reputation as the bard of pessimism makes him the perfect philosopher for the Covid era” (New York Times).Schopenhauer’s writings tap into the anxieties of our modern, uncertain world—from climate change and mental health crises to the threat of mass extinction.Produced during the last decades of Schopenhauer’s long life, these texts
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The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli ...

"The Prince" is considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially in modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is considered more important than any abstract ideal. It is also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of time on how to consider politics and ethics. ... Read more

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"The Prince" is considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially in modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is considered more important than any abstract ideal. It is also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of time on how to consider politics and ethics.
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The Crowd

A Study of the Popular Mind

by Gustave Le Bon ...

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a brilliant treatise on the workings of crowds. Gustave Le Bon examines many different kinds of crowds and how they work. He differentiates between different kinds of crowds such as mobs, juries, elected bodies, and simple crowds. This landmark book is one of the most influential books ever written on this subject. An important book for anyone studying or ... Read more

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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a brilliant treatise on the workings of crowds. Gustave Le Bon examines many different kinds of crowds and how they work. He differentiates between different kinds of crowds such as mobs, juries, elected bodies, and simple crowds. This landmark book is one of the most influential books ever written on this subject. An important book for anyone studying or
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The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus ...

Series series Vintage International
A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus ... Read more

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A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus
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