Philosophical

Many people cite Hegel, and just as many slur him and his theories. His name has become a byword in political discussions. Yet have any of these people really ever considered Hegel's philosophy or is it by rote (the 10th monkey) they derogate his work? The Hegelian philosophy was more than just the dialectic and this set of books explores all of it.

One of the most vital and pregnant books in our modern literature, "Sartor Resartus" is also, in structure and form, one of the most daringly original. It defies exact classification. It is not a philosophic treatise. It is not an autobiography. It is not a romance. Yet in a sense it is all these combined.

Lectures on the artistic Sappho, history's most famous Lesbian.

A book which deals with powerful human passions in no lethargic way. It may horrify by its brutality, and its assault on ordinary morality may well be considered startling: yet it counts for something that M. Artzibashef does not display the common fear of life.

The present outlook of human affairs is one that admits of broad generalizations and that seems to require broad generalizations. We are in one of those phases of experience which become cardinal in history. A series of immense and tragic events have shattered the self-complacency and challenged the will and intelligence of mankind. Large print 15 point font.

The revolution of America presented in politics what was only theory in mechanics. So deeply rooted were all the governments of the old world, and so effectually had the tyranny and the antiquity of habit established itself over the mind, that no beginning could be made in Asia, Africa, or Europe, to reform the political condition of man. Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

A rare look into the philosophies of an even rarer man, the Marquis de Sade, a genius, alchemist, healer, and the origin of the words sadist and sadism.