Consolation of Philosophy, The
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy: In 523 CE Boethius lived his final year in detention under suspicion of plotting against Ostrogothic King Theodoric, conqueror …
Ethics of Ambiguity, The
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity: De Beauvoir explores the implications of a central political tension: as existential agents, we each freely set …
Human Condition, The
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition: The human condition, for Arendt, is defined not by the universality of death but the uniqueness of each birth, …
Visible Identities
Linda MartÃn Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self: The book takes heed of Western philosophy’s ocularcentrism and argues that race and gender …