Philosophy

The Luciferic Verses: The Daodejing and the Chinese Roots of Esoteric History

Author: 

Cunningham, Ph.D., Eric

Credentials: 

Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University

Eric Cunnigham’s exciting new book combines a new translation of the Chinese classic Daodejing with a synthetic interpretation of the Dao. It innovatively employs the interweaving perspectives of Anthroposophy and esoteric world history. Among the inspirations for this work’s unique reading of the verses of the Daodejing is the speculation of contemporary esoteric scholars that the Yellow Emperor of Chinese mytho-history was actually a human incarnation of the spirit known elsewhere as Lucifer.

Market: 
Philosophy, History, Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Anthropology, Daoism, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Anthroposophy, Mysticism, Gnosticism, Ancient Philosophy, Plato, the *Daodejing*, Humanism, Esotericism
Release Date: 
November 1, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530834
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
199
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan lessons of life for every day, Volume II

Author: 

Richmond, Walter, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Credentials: 

Professor, Occidental College

The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan Lessons of Life for Every Day represents decades of work by Leo Tolstoy in writing, collecting, and organizing aphorisms and observations into the most complete exposition of his pacifist interpretation of Christianity, designed to be read each day.

Market: 
Linguistics, World Literature, Russian Literature, Russian Studies, World History, Tolstoy, Religion, Religious Studies, Christianity, Pacifism, Metaphysics, Anarchism, History of Ideas, Revolutionary Ideology
Release Date: 
Jan. 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530513
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
252
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan Lessons of Life for Every Day, Volume I

Author: 

Richmond, Walter, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Credentials: 

Professor, Occidental College

The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan Lessons of Life for Every Day represents decades of work by Leo Tolstoy in writing, collecting, and organizing aphorisms and observations into the most complete exposition of his pacifist interpretation of Christianity, designed to be read each day. Interspersed with hundreds of passages by Tolstoy himself, many of which appear nowhere else in his published works, are the thoughts

Market: 
Linguistics, World Literature, Russian Literature, Russian Studies, World History, Tolstoy, Religion, Religious Studies, Christianity, Pacifism, Metaphysics, Anarchism, History of Ideas, Revolutionary Ideology
Release Date: 
December 1, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530506
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
252
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Prophets of Nihilism: Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Camus

Author: 

Illing, Sean, Ph.D.

In this engaging study, Sean Illing examines the effect of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche on the development of Albert Camus’s political philosophy. This innovative book attempts to offer a substantive examination of Camus’s dialogue with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.

Market: 
Political Science, History, Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Ideas, Twentieth-Century History Public Intellectuals, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Camus, European Studies, Nihilism, Moral Philosophy, Justice, Existentialism
Release Date: 
December 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530261
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
225
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Plato-Nietzsche: Philosophy the Other Way

Author: 

Dixsaut, Monique

Credentials: 

Professor Emerita at the University of Paris I. Translator: Kenneth Quandt, Ph.D. in Classics, University of California, Berkeley

The "PHILOSOPHY THE OTHER WAY" uncovers in the works of Plato and Nietzsche not some royal road to truth but rather the intensity of their love and commitment to the life of thought, whatever it discovers and wherever it might lead. Plato explored this in his ubiquitous absence from the adventures of thought depicted in his Dialogues. Nietzsche followed suit with his unrelenting presence as the grim and forceful conscience behind all the masks through which he spoke in his chaotic oeuvre.

Market: 
Philosophy, Classics, Plato, Nietzsche, Practical Philosophy, World Literature, German Literature, Idealism, Education
Release Date: 
October 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530483
Price: 
$89.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
316
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Change Partners: Motion, Becoming, Difference, Violence

Author: 

Roth, Marty

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Author of Cultures of Memory: Memory Culture, Memory Crisis, and the Age of Amnesia and Trickle and Flow: Chapters in the History and Culture of Water

Change Partners will give an educated reader a deep understanding of a particular conceptual “village.” As a book about change it is also a book about motion, becoming, and difference, because all of these concepts circulate around the same patches of meanings.

Market: 
Philosophy, Ontology, Time, Being, Change, Conceptual Thought, Hegel, Partridge, Mobility, Mobility Studies, Sociology, Psychology
Release Date: 
October 1, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530438
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Quo Vadis Korea: The Last Custodian of Confucianism and Its Atypical Transformation

Author: 

Azad, Shirzad

In the mid-20th century, Korea was dubbed the last custodian of Confucianism, but it is now very hard to even call the country a truly Confucian society. Following this argument, Quo Vadis Korea? explores critically how some five decades of breakneck industrialization and unbridled modernization could ineluctably change the nation so fundamentally that their repercussions now sharply negate many basic principles of Confucianism in one way to another.

Market: 
Asian Studies, East Asian Studies, Korea, South Korea, Korean Studies, International Relations, Political Participation, Modernization, Modernization Theory, Development, Development Economics, Confucianism, Eastern Philosophy
Release Date: 
May 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530315
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
211
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Chivalric Tradition in 21st Century Fantasy Literature: Lacanian and Saidian Other

Author: 

Simpson, Tuğçe Çankaya

Credentials: 

Ph.D., Middle East Technical University

Modern fantasy is the generic revival of the chivalric romance. The quest motif, adventures to other worlds, imaginary characters, exotic settings, battles between light and darkness, circular plot patterns, and anachronism all highlight a substantial common point between these genres.

Market: 
Western Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Intertextuality, Edward Said, Jacques Lacan, Psychoanalysis, Myth, Fantasy, Medieval Studies, Post-Modern Studies, Epics, Romance Studies, Identity Studies, Subjectivity, Subject, Post-Colonial Theory, Sir Percival of Galles, Guy of Warwick, David Eddings
Release Date: 
June 15, 2017
ISBN: 
978-1680530322 Hardcover
Price: 
$79,95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
208
Yes
Publisher: 

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Shakespeare's Dramatic Maxims

Author: 

Risden, Edward

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Purdue University. Author of SHAKESPEARE and The PROBLEM PLAY (2012)

Book Cover"Professor Risden (Saint Norbert's College, author of SHAKESPEARE AND THE PROBLEM PLAY) introduces the idea of and history of maxims, identifies maxims in Shakespeare's plays treating the plays in chronological order, and comments on how the maxims influence the plays in which they appear.

Market: 
English Literature: Shakespeare,life and works, Shakespearean Studies: cultural and political content of maxims, statements of wisdom, existential essence, English Drama 16th-17th century, Shakespearean narration, plot and character development, Staging Shakespeare, Intellectual influences of the Renaissance on Shakespeare and politics , Philosophy in Shakespearean context, Roman Catholic and Anglican elements in dramatic morality and ethics.
Release Date: 
April 23, 2016
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-68053-012-4
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
268
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

Lacan in Literature and Film: A Closer Look at the Formation of Subjectivity in Lacanian Epistemology

Author: 

Birlik, Nurten & Tuğçe Çankaya and Türkan Aydın

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds: Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

Market: 
Lacan, Lacanian critiques of Film and Theatre, Epistemology, Subjectivity/Language Theory, Harold Pinter, Plays of Camus and Sartre, French Intellectual History 1945-2000, T.S. Eliot, Prufrockian notionality
Release Date: 
April 15th, 2015
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-95-0
Price: 
$72.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
136
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036

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