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  • Kazantzakis, Volume 1

    Politics of the Spirit

    by Peter Bien ...
    Series series Princeton Modern Greek Studies
    "No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search.Beginning with Kazantzakis's early career in fin-de-siècle Paris and his discovery ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

    by Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien ...
    Series series Princeton Modern Greek Studies
    The life of Nikos Kazantzakis—the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ—was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis's letters in any language.One of the most important Greek writers ... Read more

    $66.29 USD

  • Kazantzakis, Volume 2

    Politics of the Spirit

    by Peter Bien ...
    Series series Princeton Modern Greek Studies
    Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, Peter Bien argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius--not always artistically successful, but a remarkable figure by any standard. This is the second and final volume of Bien's definitive and monumental biography of Kazantzakis (1883 ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

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  • Doubt: A History

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  • The Rebel

    An Essay on Man in Revolt

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as ... Read more

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  • Alternating Current

    by Octavio Paz ...
    In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and ... Read more

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  • The Temptation to Exist

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. ... Read more

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  • Love in the Void

    Where God Finds Us

    by Simone Weil ...
    Series series Plough Spiritual Guides
    Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today’s spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor ... Read more

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  • Basic Writings of Nietzsche

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Walter Kaufmann ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    This captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality—featuring an introduction by Peter Gay and commentary from Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles DeleuzeMore than one hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher ... Read more

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  • On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Masterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works.On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows Nietzsche using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline.The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates ... Read more

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  • On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book ... Read more

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