Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Jane F. Thrailkill
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829624
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
This collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—lights up their shared intellectual project: showing how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risks. Philosophical Siblings offers a fresh way of thinking about literary encounters, one that approaches even the most iconic texts with serious lightness.
The Social Philosophers argues that Western social philosophy emerged during the disintegration of the ancient Greek and Roman communities. Robert Nisbet contends that Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality take on their distinctive character as aspects of humankind’s search for community.
In Xenophon's Socratic Education, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, Dustin Sebell shows how Socrates ascended, with his students in tow, from moral or political opinion to knowledge.
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
Brendon Westler
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512826005
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
In The Revolting Masses, Brendon Westler argues that we need to look beyond José Ortega y Gasset’s arguments about populism and democracy in his most famous work to recover the philosopher’s expansive political outlook and to identify his valuable contributions to the history and advancement of liberalism.
The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Judith N. Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law.
In this book, political philosopher Adam Lovett combines empirical research and original philosophical analysis to reveal the failings of American democracy and examine their ethical consequences. He argues that these failings undermine the ethics of democracy and in turn, transform or even negate the rights and duties of ordinary citizens.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers. Utilizing newly available archival sources, Martin Woessner shows how a philosophy student searching for meaning became the most talked-about director of his generation.
Despite his enormous influence, little is known about Michel Foucault’s early years. Michael Behrent provides an account of this period and shows that formative childhood experiences—the family medical profession, the provincial bourgeoisie, the German Occupation, and Catholic education—were decisive for the development of his thought.
In Knowledge True and Useful, Frank Rexroth shows how, beginning in the 1070s, a new kind of knowledge arose in Latin Europe that for the first time could be deemed “scientific.” Rexroth shows how this new perspective marked a turning point in European intellectual culture that culminated in the birth of the university.
