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Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Eurípides; Diane Arnson Svarlien (Translator); Ruth Scodel (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"I would call the register 'restrained colloquial'. The language ranges between the straightforward and the genuinely poetic, its dominant characteristic being freshness. This is not the usual dull translationese, which reads as if the original were not in a language people once spoke and wrote and crea ...Show more
Ethics, with the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, and Selected Letters by Benedictus De Spinoza; Seymour Feldman (Editor); Samuel Shirley (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Since their publication in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect this enlarged edition will be even more useful to st ...Show more
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plató; G. M. A. Grube (Translator); John M. Cooper (Revised by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
Four Tragedies - Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles; Peter Meineck (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by); Paul Woodruff (Notes by, Introduction by, Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the th ...Show more
Introduction to the Philosophy of History with Selections from the Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel; Leo Rauch (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
. . . eminently readable . . . admirably picks up the spirit of what Hegel is saying. . . . more readable and accurate than Hartmann's, and it trans-lates a more readable text than does Nisbet's. It includes (as Hartmann's does not) an excerpt, which serves as chapter five, from 'The Geo-graphical Basis ...Show more
JEW OF MALTA WITH RELATED TEXTS by MARLOWE CHRISTOPHER
Category: Plays | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This edition answers the needs of both beginning and advanced students: It features the text of Marlowe's play with modern spelling and punctuation, glosses and annotations on the page, and a thorough Introduction devoted to the play's historical, cultural, and theological contexts.In addition, it inclu ...Show more
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; Edwin M. Curley (Editor)
Category: Politics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Designed to meet the needs of both student and scholar, this edition of Leviathan offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernized spelling and punctuation of the text, and the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the most significant variants between the English versio ...Show more
Medea by Euripides
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett (Translator); Charles Guignon (Introduction by, Editor); Kevin Aho (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Classic | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man," a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest anti-heroes in all literatu ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill; Elizabeth Rapaport (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
On Libertyby John Stuart MillOn Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.
On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche; Maudemarie Clark (Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Alan J. Swensen (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche's style but also to convey his meaning accuratelyâand thus to be an important advance on previous translations of ...Show more