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Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Eurípides; Diane Arnson Svarlien (Translator); Ruth Scodel (Introduction by)
Category: 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: Reference | 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
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
Category: No Category | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B F Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society. The book urges us to re-examine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically ...Show more
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
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: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.
On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche; Maudemarie Clark (Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Alan J. Swensen (Translator)
Category: Science | 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
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Donald A. Cress (Editor, Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential 1762 work, On the Social Contract, a milestone of political science and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. A progressive work, it inspired worldwide political reform ...Show more
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant; Ted Humphrey (Editor, Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text.1. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (1784) 2. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) 3. Speculative Beginning of Human History (1786) 4. On the Proverb: That May Be True in Theory, but Is of No Pra ...Show more
Republic by Plato
Category: Philosophy | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of choice for their study and teaching of Plato's most influential work. In this brilliant revision, C D C Reeve furthers Grube's success both in preserving t ...Show more
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
Category: Classics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional govern ...Show more
TREATISE ON LAW by Regan, Richard J.
Category: Philosophy | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the "Doctor Angelicus" and "Doctor Communis". He is heralded as the most influential Western medieval ...Show more