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David Krell
This work proves the adage of all that glitters is not gold. David Krell has written the first full-length biography of one of baseball's most notorious figures, using archival newspaper…
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David Krell chronicles in novelistic detail the notable achievements of some of baseball's greatest players of 1978, along with some of the national pastime's quirkiest moments, to capture an extraordinary…
David Krell chronicles the cultural impact of the Boston Red Sox on business, media, and the National Pastime with engaging stories and anecdotes about the team's rich history beyond the…
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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…
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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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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This book offers a unique look at a pivotal year in American history, tracing the significant events of 1966 by using the baseball season as its narrative arc, but also…
The New York Yankees’ dominance on the baseball diamond has been lauded, analyzed and chronicled. Yet the team’s broader impact on popular culture has been largely overlooked-until now. This collection…
Baseball fans might know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don’t know the whole story. Until now. Utilizing archival documents, contemporary press accounts, and interviews with fans, David…
Bringing fresh perspectives to the team that has brought joy, triumph and even a miracle to New York City, this collection of new essays examines portrayals of the Mets in…
An engaging history of the 1962 baseball season and a tumultuous American year.
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.
