Illuminations: Essays and Reflections...
Walter Benjamin"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time." — George Steiner Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includ...
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autob...
Walter Benjamin"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." — Time A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benja...
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introdu...
Stephen Eric BronnerCritical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In ...
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and...
Jonas CeikaFrom the creator of the Cuck Philosophy YouTube channel comes this timely and explosive re-evaluation of Marx and Nietzsche for the 21st-century left. Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction. Over ...
Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wis...
Yu DanAs one of Chinas's all-time bestsellers, Confucius from the Heart unveils the wisdom of The Analects, a major text of Confucian philosophy that has dominated Chinas's intellectual and spiritual culture for more than two millenia.Yu Da...
Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest a...
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imaginin...
Adam KirschIn this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity's ...
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race...
Thomas LigottiIn Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are...
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrat...
No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accel...
Steven ShaviroAccelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point ...
Power Nihilism: A Case for Moral & Po...
James Theodore Stillwell IIIWithin this text James Theodore Stillwell III extracts thought strands from profound thinkers such as Hume, Nietzsche, Kant A.J. Ayer, C.L. Stevenson, J. L. Mackie, Ragnar RedBeard, Peter Sjöstedt-H and interweaves them into a meta e...
Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism
Eugene ThackerThe author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's ...