Overview :In What Is Called Thinking, Martin Heidegger wrote, "Man speaks by being silent." Berel Lang demonstrates that Heidegger's own silence spoke... Read More
Overview :A ground-breaking attempt at a prolegomenon to the study of style, this collection brings together eleven essays by distinguished philosophe... Read More
Overview :Plato was the first great philosopher of the West to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. A student of Socra... Read More
Overview :In this series you'll survey thirteen of the world's most important philosophers. You'll see how each philosopher created a complete and coh... Read More
Overview :Subverting the boundaries between philosophy and literature, this book addresses such topics as aesthetics, criticism, epistemology, and eth... Read More
Overview :The term "genocide"--"group killing"--which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 establis... Read More
Overview :In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the I... Read More
Overview :Since Theodor Adorno's attack on the writing of poetry "after Auschwitz," artists and theorists have faced the problem of reconciling the mo... Read More
Overview :These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most res... Read More