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  • The Figure of Nature

    On Greek Origins

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    One of America's preeminent philosophers "has produced a book with fascinating new insights into the ancient conception of nature" ( Choice).Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Return of Nature

    Coming As If from Nowhere

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A reflection on the urgent need for a new philosophical understanding of, and relationship with, nature.John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological assault on natural things and opens a space ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Endowment of Music

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Philosophical reflection on the enticement and elusiveness of music, paying special attention to Richard Wagner.The Endowment of Music is the final offering, published posthumously, of the illustrious American philosopher John Sallis. The book is a paean to the endowment of music—in the double sense: that which endows music and that which music endows. Sallis brings to this study a cultivated ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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  • Force of Imagination

    The Sense of the Elemental

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Force of ImaginationThe Sense of the ElementalJohn SallisA bold and original investigation into how imagination shapes thought and feeling."This is a bold new direction for the author, one that he takes in an arresting and convincing manner. . . . a powerful, original approach to what others call 'ecology' but what Sallis shows to be a question of the status of the earth in philosophical thinking ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Songs of Nature

    On Paintings by Cao Jun

    by John Sallis ...
    The work of the contemporary Chinese painter prompts reflections on nature, art, and music from one of America's leading philosophers.This text by John Sallis carries out a series of ruminations by taking up Cao Jun's art and thought, with a focus on questions of the elemental. Sallis's reflections are not a matter of simply relating art works to philosophical thought, as theoretical insights and ... Read more

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  • Force of Imagination

    The Sense of the Elemental

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Force of ImaginationThe Sense of the ElementalJohn SallisA bold and original investigation into how imagination shapes thought and feeling."This is a bold new direction for the author, one that he takes in an arresting and convincing manner. . . . a powerful, original approach to what others call 'ecology' but what Sallis shows to be a question of the status of the earth in philosophical thinking ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kant and the Spirit of Critique

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    This volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Kant. Each course was devoted respectively to one of Kant's three Critiques, and so the book as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. Sallis displays here, as he does in all his lecture courses, an uncanny ability to open up dense philosophical texts. The matters Kant deals with—in ... Read more

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  • Kant and the Spirit of Critique

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    This volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Kant. Each course was devoted respectively to one of Kant's three Critiques, and so the book as a whole treats the entirety of the Kantian critical project. Sallis displays here, as he does in all his lecture courses, an uncanny ability to open up dense philosophical texts. The matters Kant deals with—in ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • On Beauty and Measure

    Plato's Symposium and Statesman

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    On Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher John Sallis' commentaries on Plato's dialogues the Symposium and the Statesman. Drawn from two lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent his longest and most sustained engagement to date with either work.Brilliantly original, Sallis's close readings of Plato's dialogues are grounded in the original passages and also illuminate the ... Read more

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  • On Beauty and Measure

    Plato's Symposium and Statesman

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    On Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher John Sallis' commentaries on Plato's dialogues the Symposium and the Statesman. Drawn from two lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent his longest and most sustained engagement to date with either work.Brilliantly original, Sallis's close readings of Plato's dialogues are grounded in the original passages and also illuminate the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Heidegger's Ontological Project

    On Being and Time

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
    This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time.The lectures were presented during the 1985–86 academic year at Loyola University of Chicago and during the fall semester of 1999 at Pennsylvania State University. The fourteen years separating the beginning of the two courses is significant in that numerous ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Light Traces

    by John Sallis ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A collection of philosophical essays on place and nature, featuring beautiful paintings and drawings.What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain—on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? John Sallis considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus