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by David Appelbaum
Gurdjieffian and philosopher David Appelbaum explores the moment of shock when the seamless web of momentum is suddenly disrupted. In this gap, during which the spatio-temporal categories of thought are brought to a standstill, consciousness realigns with that which it is meant to serve.
186 pp.
Price: $24.00
by David Appelbaum
Explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an "initiatory ethics." Continues the line of thought given in Disruption and intimates a secret of delay that is behind all traditional teachings and suggests ways that a sensitivity to a sacred obligation emerges from the heart of human experience.
167 pp.
Price: $20.00
by David Appelbaum
Explores the subjugation of voice by thought and indicates means for reversing the authority of the sound and for freeing up the voice. Concluding that the poetic voice reconciles the search for semantic meaning with the raw, acoustical effect that free voice causes, Appelbaum proposes a new and radical interpretation of the truth of voice—that it is true if it provides a disclosure of our human contradictions.
155 pp.
Price: $35.00
by René Guénon
A prelude to his magnum opus, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, Guénon brilliantly and concisely critiques the Western deviation—its loss of tradition, exaltation of action over knowledge, rampant individualism and general social chaos—that will lead to the 'age of darkness' that precedes the end of the present world.
120 pp.
Price: $19.00
by René Guénon
The last book to appear during his lifetime (1886–1951), this is Guénon's most comprehensive exposition of the science of Alchemy. The 'Great Triad,' defined as Heaven-Man-Earth, is a cosmological and metaphysical doctrine which Guénon traces through Chinese Taoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhist, Hermetic and Masonic teachings.
162 pp.
Price: $22.00
by René Guénon
The masterwork of the great pneumatic thinker and a luminary of the twentieth century, Guénon issues a comprehensive critique of the antitraditional stance of the modern world and where it must lead. Chapters include: The Solidification of the World; The Fissures in the Great Wall; Shamanism and Sorcery; Deviation and Subversion; The Inversion of Symbols; and The Great Parody, or Spirituality Inverted.
284 pp.
Price: $22.00
by Martin Heidegger
This first-ever translation into English consists of a lecture course delivered by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1931–32. Part One of the course provides a detailed analysis of Plato's allegory of the cave in The Republic, while Part Two gives a detailed exegesis and interpretation of a central section of Plato's Theaetetus, and is essential for the full understanding of his later well-known essay on Plato's Doctrine of Truth. The Essence of Truth is one of Heidegger's most important works, for nowhere else does he give a comparably thorough explanation of what is arguably the most fundamental and abiding theme of his entire philosophy, namely the difference between truth as the "unhiddenness of beings" and truth as the "correctness of propositions."
252 pp.
Price: $30.00
by Leo Rauch and David Sherman
A new translation of the German philosopher's famous chapter IV on self-consciousness (the "master-slave dialectic") from his major work, Phenomenology of Spirit. Included is a review of its reception by major thinkers such as Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan and Habermas.
236 pp.
Price: $18.00
by Gretchen Reydams-Schils
Roman Stoics of the imperial period developed a distinctive model of social ethics, one which adapted the ideal philosophical life to existing communities and everyday societal values. Examined is how philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Hierocles and Epictetus applied their distinct brand of social ethics to daily relations and responsibilities, creating an effective model of involvement and ethical behavior in the classical world.
Index, bibliography, 210 pp.
Price: $24.00
by Vladimir Solovyov
Solovyov (1853–1900), close friend of Dostoevsky and founder of modern Russian religious philosophy, critiques positivism—which he understands to be the whole tradition of Western rationalism—and sees the irreconcilable conflicts between reason and faith (or revelation), and reason and nature. He holds that "the philosophical development now ended has bequeathed to the very near future a complete and universal resolution of those questions."
191 pp.
Price: $20.00
by Richard Sorabji
New translation of the author's classic 1972 translation of De Memoira with commentary, summaries and three essays comparing Aristotle's accounts of memory and recollections. For this edition, Sorabji, general editor of seventy volumes to date of The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, provides a substantial new introduction, particularly as concerns the role of mental images in the imagination.
Index, notes, 122 pp.
Price: $15.00