Provides translations from the writings of Lu Xiangshan; Wang Yangming; and, the "Platform Sutra", a work which had profound influence on neo-Confucian thought.
Features a rendering of Kant's major work on religion, an introduction by Stephen Palmquist, a selected bibliography, notes, glossary and a detailed index.
Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c 535-600) has long been mined as a historical source for Merovingian society, a focus that... Læs mere
First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff 's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this rivetingtranslation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by PaulWoodruff.
Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of Principles of Political Economy
Presents a Sappho by a master poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...
Suitable for students of history and political theory, this work includes notes, a 2-page map, an index, and an Introduction by David Wootton.
Provides the essential readings for a course on Plato's views of sex and love, or a main component of more general courses on ideas of sex and love. The general Introduction provides historical information about Plato and Socrates, and the sexual norms of classical Athens.
A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point.