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David Farrell Krell
Retraces Hoelderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801-02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.
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F. W. J. Schelling
In 1815, F. W. J. Schelling presented a lecture titled "On the Deities of Samothrace" to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The lecture offered a startlingly original reading of the…
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Martin Heidegger
Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. This title offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker’s writings…
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Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau’s experiences at Walden Pond.
The disclosure of Martin Heidegger’s complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. This book traces Heidegger’s…
Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy.
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Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.
Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we…
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This historical-biographical novel fleshes out the facts of Nietzsche’s life with fictional treatment. Using untraditional narrative techniques and interweaving medical reports, actual letters, and original new text, the novel takes…
A historical novel, this is the beautifully told story of Louis Hegel, illegitimate son of the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. Ultimately disowned by his father and forced to use his mother’s…
Calls for rethinking architecture as a way of renegotiating our encounter with the world, taking into account the role of love and desire in all human making.
Combines the techniques of fiction and nonfiction in order to tell the story of the love between Susette Gontard ( Diotima ) and the poet Friedrich Holderlin.
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Explores health, illness, and creativity in the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on a varied literature of philosophical reflections on health, and analyzing Nietzsche’s confrontation with traditional values…
NatureOs destructive forces in the writings of Novalis, Schelling, and Hegel.
Shows that German idealist and romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgment are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics than previously thought. This title explores the contributions of…
Focuses his discussion of Derridas final seminars on questions such as death, language, and animality
Focuses his discussion of Derrida’s final seminars on questions such as death, language, and animality
In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Krell began corresponding and then meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida and, through many letters…
This text reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy and death. The moon…
David Farrell Krell (Depaul Univ.)
A series of essays which scrutinize Martin Heidegger’s thought, written by an American scholar who has already translated into English Heiddeger’s works Early Greek Thinking , Nietzsche and Basic Writings…
To counter the view of Derrida’s thought as basically destructive, the author invites the reader to understand how Derrida’s philosophy maybe seen as affirmative. The book explores what mourning means…
A collection that brings together a wide range of original readings on Friedrich Nietzsche, reflecting many aspects of Neitzsche in contemporary philosophy, literature and the social sciences.
A concise introduction to this controversial and important twentieth-century philosopher. David Farrell Krell has improved this collection by adding The Way to Language and the complete version of The Origin…
Friedrich Holderlin
Features translations of all three versions of Holderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocies , and his related theoretical essays.
Offers a translation of all three versions of Holderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles , and his related theoretical essays.
Martin Heidegger,David Farrell Krell (Translator)
A landmark discussion between two great thinkers, vital to an understanding of twentieth-century philosophy and intellectual history.
Francoise Dastur
This books offers a philosophical exploration and assessment of the various ways in which human societies have confronted the question of death and mortality. In a very accessible style, the…
The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato’s bestiary in both Greek and English.
This is an extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. The distinguished contributors to this volume address most of the…
Lectures on ecstatic temporality and on Heidegger’s political legacy.
