country around Avignon, "Report from a Parisian Paradise" superbly translated by Michael Hofmann paints the sepia-tinted...... more

Desert Screen is a vision of future war, in which Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning-... more

Ren Gu non (1886-1951) was one of the great luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of t... more

Ren Gu non (1886-1951) was one of the great luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of t... more

, mystery, and intrigue. Michael R. Katz has crafted the first English-language translation of this important novel, which was...... more

Communio Sanctorum is the most recent product of the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in Germany and the f... more

Revised Edition One of Cardinal Ratzinger’s most important and widely read books, this volume is a r... more

Immanuel Kant was actively concerned with issues in the philosophy of natural science throughout his... more

The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a ... more

In a provocative attempt to outline a history of communication during the Spanish Golden Age, Commun... more

L wenheim s theorem reflects a critical point in the history of mathematical logic, for it marks the... more

In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible co... more

history. Dictated to his son Michael von Albrecht and first published in German, von Albrecht’s autobiography recounts his...... more

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of gl... more

, excellently translated by Michael Sherwin, the interest should in no way be limited to Roman Catholics. Morality recasts the...... more

In this pathbreaking study of the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates ... more

There is no greater or more powerful or more pure human rapport with the elements than that experien... more

J.Michael Walton....... more

Composed in 1899 when Rilke was only twenty-three, the interconnected tales of Stories of God were i... more

Banana Yoshimoto’s novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye T... more

Yiddish original and in its Hebrew version, under the title In the Vale of Tears. In this work Michael Wex renders the...... more

The Voices of Wittgenstein brings for the first time, in both the original German and in English tra... more

Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante’s masterpiece in all its dimensions, without...... more

Countless saints have been priests or religious, living out lives of penance and sacrifice for the g... more

This volume is the first to assemble the writings that Kant published to popularize, summarize, ampl... more

These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely benea... more

The Fathers of the Church, deeply-rooted in the Scriptures, have left us a rich treasure as inherita... more

’Frayn’s translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and a... more

Michael Cooperson s translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito s masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the...... more

Michael Cooperson s translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito s masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the...... more

Eugene O’Connor’s superb translation of Antonio Panormita’s Hermaphroditus brings to life this littl... more

Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes he... more

An invaluable account of the life and times of German scientist, Otto Hahn. Hahn was key a researche... more

Internationally renowned as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century, the late ... more

individualist anarchist philosopher Johann Kaspar Schmidt. Michael R. Katz’s translation of this controversial novel is the first...... more

From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillus... more

Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men explores the primal healing methods of shamans all over the world... more

In a work of great originality, Germany s most eminent writer examines the victories and terrors of ... more

into English, by Michael Baur, together with an introduction by Frederick Neuhouser that sets it in its philosophical and...... more

into English, by Michael Baur, together with an introduction by Frederick Neuhouser that sets it in its philosophical and...... more

It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possessi... more

This accessible and highly readable book is the first full-length biography of Hegel to be published... more

Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most important figures of twentieth-century philosophy. Exerting a pr... more

From Luther to Kierkegaard, from Heidegger to Sartre, the theme of anguish has dominated both philos... more

Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may dif... more

famous of all philosophical discussions of friendship. Michael Pakaluk presents the first systematic study in English of...... more

famous of all philosophical discussions of friendship. Michael Pakaluk presents the first systematic study in English of...... more

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arri... more

Non-linguistic conflicts--economic, religious, territorial--are often projected on to language diffe... more

early diaries will be a watershed. Through Edward Snow’s and Michael Winkler’s brilliantly supple and faithful translation...... more

A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psy... more

In the three essays that make up this stimulating and often startling book, Jacques Derrida argues a... more

The Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour of the eastern ... more

Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The spe... more

Written by one of the world’s leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When... more

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpec... more

Worringer’s classic study argues that in historical periods of anxiety and uncertainty, man seeks to... more

In Michael Meyer s fluent, idiomatic translations, The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler stand as masterpieces of naturalist...... more

This is a new student edition of Erasmus’ crucial treatise on political theory and also contains a n... more