Notebooks 1951-1959

Withheld from book in France for twenty-nine years after his dying, and now in English for the 1st time, Camus's ultimate journals supply us our rawest and such a lot intimate glimpse but into the most very important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. the 1st volumes of his Notebooks all started as basic tools of his paintings; this ultimate quantity, recorded during the last 9 years of his lifestyles, tackle the features of a extra own diary.

The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and mythical conflater of God and nature, Jewish thinker Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) used to be excommunicated by means of the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds. " but, over the last 3 centuries, Spinoza's rupture with conventional Jewish ideals and practices has increased him to a well-known position in genealogies of Jewish modernity.

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

The definitive biography of the attention-grabbing William James, whose existence and writing placed an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, instructing, and faith -- on modernism itselfPivotal member of the Metaphysical membership, writer of The forms of non secular adventure, eldest sibling within the striking James kin, William emerges right here as an immensely complicated and curious guy.

The Letters of George Santayana, Book Two, 1910--1920: The Works of George Santayana, Volume V

Because the first number of George Santayana's letters used to be released in 1955, presently after his demise, many extra letters were situated. The Works of George Santayana, quantity V, brings jointly a complete of greater than 3,000 letters. the quantity is split chronologically into 8 books of approximately related size.