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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois 60637
PHILOSOPHY
Volume I
KARL JASPERS
Translated
by
E. B. Ashton
Although Jaspers occupies a position of
eminence in Continental philosophy, his
central philosophical works, which form the
very core of his thought, have been
inaccessible to English readers. This
translation of Philosophy makes available
one of his strictly philosophical works.
It
contains an "Introduction to Philosophy" and
"Epilogue 1955", a rare example of a
philosopher reviewing his work at a distance
of twenty-five years.
1969 LC:69-19922 350 pages $11.50
THE
HUMAN
CONDITION
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt's
The Human Condition
is
a
startling and penetrating study of the state of
modem man. The freshness of her approach
is a result of her unique consideration of
mankind and men from the point of view of
the actions of which they are capable. "Every
now and then, I come across a book which
gives me the impression of having been
especially written for me.•••
The Human
Condition
belongs to this small and select
cJass."-W. H. Auden. ''The combination of
tremendous intellectual power with great
common sense makes Miss Arendt's insights
into history and politics seem both amazing
and obvious."-Mary McCarthy,
The New
Yorker.
Chicago Collector's Editions.
1958 LC:58-5535 333 pages Slipcased
$8.9S
Selected Letters of
FRIEDRICH NIETlSCHE
Edited and translated
by
Christopher Middleton
Middleton has assembled a selection of letters which, as a whole, gives a sympathetic portrayal
of a much maligned personality. Traditionally cast in the popular mind as the ultimate anti–
Semitic German nationalist, Nietzsche has been misrepresented, misinterpreted, and misused for
decades. Although Nietzsche's circle of friends at times included such men as Wagner, Rhode,
and ·Burckhardt, he gradually became more and more aware of
his
isolation not only from these
friends, but from humanity. His letters, in Middleton's words, "are like arial photography of a
subterranean labyrinth." This selection of more than two hundred letters-about one-tenth of
N"letzsche's total correspondence-successfully reveals the framework of that labyrinth.
1969 LC:69-20453 370 pages $10.00
