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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
Category: Education | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Vladímir Nabokov (Introduction by, Translator); Brian Boyd
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books, o ...Show more
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
Category: No Category | Series: Princeton Classics
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisiti ...Show more
Faust I & II: Goethe's Collected Works, Volume 2 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: Classic | Series: Princeton Classics
One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic ...Show more
Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Princeton Classics
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father. Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him throu ...Show more
Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political life Justice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice, critically analyzing basic concepts underlying most theories of j ...Show more
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden; Arthur C. Kirsch (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden . . . ...Show more
Men, Women, and Chain Saws - Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover (Preface by)
Category: Film Theory | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of ...Show more
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Princeton Classics
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to ...Show more
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton Classics
This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated N ...Show more
Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton Classics
The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analyt ...Show more
Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Gerhard Scholem; David Biale; R. J. Zwi Werblowsky (Editor); Allan Arkush
Category: Spirituality | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelft ...Show more