Philosophy

The Algerian Destiny of Albert Camus: 1940 – 1962

Author: 

Maougal, Mohamed and Kassoul, Aicha; Translation: Professor Philip Beitchman, NYU

Credentials: 

Authors are senior professors of French Literature, University of Algiers

This monograph (translated from French) is the first attempt to reconcile Camus’s deep-seated identity as an Algerian and his ideas of a multiconfessional, multicultural, non-colonial Algeria. The authors discuss the identity of Camus, his philosophy and politics, including his sexual politics, in light of a southern Mediterranean cultural nexus that stamped Camus as an Algerian rather than French (pied-noir). Camus’s cosmopolitan and radical Algiers of the 30’s is described vibrantly reflecting his extraordinary understanding of the people and landscape that evolved from his journalism.

Market: 
Camus, French/Algerian culture and politics 1940-1962, Francophone studies, Magrebi studies
Release Date: 
09/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-58-5
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
312
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The (R)Age of Caliban: Nietzsche and Wilde in a Post-Structuralist Perspective

Author: 

Mabille, Louise

Credentials: 

D/Philosophy, University of Pretoria, RSA

This ambitious and complex monograph by one of Africa’s emerging literary critics and philosophers is focused on the ways that both Nietzsche and Wilde sought aesthetic solutions to the moralistic problems generated by what Nietzsche identified as “the will to truth”. The author examines the inadequacy of the Romantic demand for an “undivided” subject both in their era as well as our own.

Market: 
Philosophy, Literary Criticism, English Literary Studies 19th and 20th centuries, Cultural Studies
Release Date: 
6/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-06-0
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Plato and Platonic Wisdom: A Contemporary View of the Classical Canon

Author: 

Lovatt, Stephen

Credentials: 

PhD; Trinity College, Cambridge (UK)

Dr Lovatt's book is a comprehensive look at the relevance of the teachings and philosophy of Plato and the pedagogical methods open to the teaching of the Platonic canon. The author invites his readers to enter into a collegial discourse and view the modern world through Plato's eyes and question their own beliefs, as he relates Plato's words to various contemporary issues including bioethics, politics, education and the process of scientific discovery. Lovatt is also interested in rehabilitating Plato’s methodologies from heterodox misinterpretations and frambold orthodoxies.

Market: 
Plato and Classical Greek Philosophy, Teaching Philosophy, Education, Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy
Release Date: 
6/2007
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-38-6
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The L. Rev.: The Law Review Experience in American Legal Education

Author: 

Gutterman, Roy S.

Credentials: 

JD, State Court of New Jersey

This important work is a three part study that includes a legal and historical review of the unique place of law reviews in American legal education as well as the nature and stature of the reviews and the varying careers the top reviews have had in the 20th century. Thirdly Gutterman has written of his own law review career with a mordant and fascinating eye on the extremes of legal opinion (and behavior) a deadline can bring. The author also discusses the effects of the two major writing competitions specifically devoted to law review writing.

Market: 
Law School bookstores; American Legal Education, Law Review (history of), Sociology of Law, legal philosophy
Release Date: 
6/2003
ISBN: 
Paper: 1-930901-81-0 / 9781930901810
Price: 
$19.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Catherine the Great and the French Philosophers of the Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and Grimm

Author: 

Gorbatov, Inna

Credentials: 

Ph.D., CUNY

This research monograph is the result of many years of archival investigation in Russia, France and elsewhere into the nature of Catherine the Great’s involvement with the French Enlightenment. Professor Gorbatov’s conclusions go far beyond the consensus of philosophic and cultural interests masking an authoritarian and, at times, barbarous emerging European power and delves instead into Catherine’s fascination with French political and social ideals.

Market: 
Russian Intellectual History, French Philosophy 18thc, French Studies, Cultural History 18th c., History of Philosophy
Release Date: 
04/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-03-6; 9781933146034
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Desolation's March: The Rise of Personalism and The Reign of Amusement in 21st Century America

Author: 

Foster, Stephen Paul

Credentials: 

Ph.D., University of St Louis (Philosophy), Dean, Wright State University

Dr.Foster(author of MELANCHOLY DUTY,Kluwer,1997)has undertaken a critique of American decadence and moral squalor. He argues that three basic cultural phenomena have conjoined to warp and degrade the moral and cultural landscape of the country. Treated together for purposes of critique these phenomena have intertwined: in the national pysche: They are the impact of personalism(via J.J.Rosseau) and the leveraged individual, the growth of the theraputic state and the overwhelming preoccupation with entertainment.

Market: 
Philosophy, Mass Media(U.S.), Cultural studies, U.S.History 1945-
Release Date: 
9/2003
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-77-1
Price: 
$29.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
334
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Early Writings of Conor Cruise O’Brien

Author: 

Edwards, Owen Dudley

Credentials: 

Professor of History, Edinburgh University

C.C. O’Brien’s early writings contain the early on the mature, magisterial style and substance that have made him one of the finest political philosophers alive and active today. Edited with notes by Professor Edwards, this is the first collection of O’Brien’s precient discourses on Ireland, Ulster, diplomacy,the UNO , the UN and Africa and more.

Market: 
Irish studies, Foreign Affairs(Ireland),UN and Africa, political philosophy, diplomacy(Europe and Africa)
Release Date: 
Spring 2001
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-06-2
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Justice Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism: His Judicial Biography

Author: 

Bland, Randall W., Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Southwest Texas State University

A major research work, this study examines one of America’s most distinguished Afro-American jurists from the point of view of his legal and philosophical beliefs as practiced from the bench. This monograph is a product of 31 years of research and investigation and includes material derived from interviews with Justice Marshall and his colleagues on the Supreme Court then and now. Justice Clarence Thomas and his role vis a vis the Marshall legacy is also discussed at length.

Market: 
Thurgood Marshall; Supreme Court, U.S. Civil Rights 1945-1954; Legal Philosophy, Jurisprudence
Release Date: 
9/2001
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-23-2
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
404
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Inhuman: The Internet, Education and Humanity

Author: 

Redeker, Robert; translated and with an introduction by Philip Beitchman with an Introduction by Christian Delacampagne, author of A History of French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins,1999)

Credentials: 

Author is well known French philosopher and board member of Les Temps Modernes; translator is professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University (NY)

The transformation of Western civilization into a planetary society of information and communication compels us to pose some philosophical and political questions about the influence of these new technologies on education. This author, a philosopher, journalist, literary critic, and also a member of the board of Les Temps Modernes, has concluded that Information Science and Internet do represent grave dangers for education, since they rather show us a way of avoiding the teacher and teaching (“how not to teach”) than help teach.

Market: 
Education:; Philosophy, postmodern; Pedagogy and Science
Release Date: 
7/2003
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-33-X
Price: 
$44.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
114
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Walter Benjamin’s Transit: A Destructive Tour of Modernism

Author: 

Polsky, Stephanie

Walter Benjamin’s Transit is a work in two halves. The first, part 1, entitled
“Mapping Desire: Towards a Minor Fascism” applies the lens of Gilles Deleuze
and Felix Guattari’s philosophy to the critical writings of to the critical writings
of Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid an atmosphere of emergent fascism
in Europe between two World Wars. This book represents something radically
different from other critical approaches to Walter Benjamin’s body of work. It is
an attempt to act with Benjamin to devise a new set of philosophical and political

Release Date: 
11/2009
ISBN: 
978-1-933146-73-7 / 1933146-73-7
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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