Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Killing Season
A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others...
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter...
by Søren Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Søren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism and have come to define his contribution...
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air
Three Godly Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing...
The Complete Works of Aristotle
The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
This digital edition combines, for the first time, both volumes of The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, which is universally recognized as the standard English version.
The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in twelve volumes between 1912 and...
Aristotle's Ethics
Writings from the Complete Works - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally motivated action as a mean between extremes. Its influence was felt well beyond antiquity into the Middle Ages,...
by John M. Efron
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim...
In Search of Israel
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be
Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the...
Terror in France
The Rise of Jihad in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer...
Concepts and Categories
Philosophical Essays - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin
This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the...
The Poverty of Clio
Resurrecting Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history...
The Jewish Social Contract
An Essay in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Jewish Social Contract begins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic society, and ends by proposing a broad, inclusive notion of secularity.
David Novak takes issue with the view--held by the late philosopher John...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XIV, Volume 14
Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in its own right. In it, Kierkegaard...
Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6
Fear and Trembling/Repetition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de Silentio and Constantine Constantius,...