Philosophy
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
Hardback
A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Paperback
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the American Civil War
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt
Hardback
A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Paperback
Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation
Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli A First English Translation
Paperback
A philosophy grounded not in a transcendent divinity, afterlife or individualism but in a rooted communal life