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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Herodotus
Pantheon, 2007
Packed Full of Helps
+ The edition to beat for many years to come
+ The best Herodotus available
+ Worthy!
+ Amazing...
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Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
Alexandre Kojčve
Cornell University Press, 1980
Excellent introduction to Hegel
+ Good introduction
+ A Brief Note on Tactics
My kid nicked it from my library and learned much at about the age of 14. He said subsequent, "Dad is engaged in a Fight to da Death for Pure Recognition".
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Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero
Seth Benardete, Ronna Burger
St. Augustine's Press, 2005
Clothed in Armor and Epithets
This is an excellent book. The author presents two aspects of the epics, the action in 1200BC, and the story in 800BC. He presents The Iliad, for example, in these two aspects; a war that happened in 1200BC, and the epic itself as a poem from 800BC, and also the window from which we observe that ...
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The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition)
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
W. W. Norton & Company, 1978
Amazing Condition
+ Review of Tucker's M-E Reader
+ Difficult to comprehend
+ A classic book
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Leo Strauss and Nietzsche
Laurence Lampert
University Of Chicago Press, 1997
A "must-read" book for the student of Strauss and Nietzsche
+ Nietzsche, Strauss, and Philosophy
+ Worth Careful Study
Lampert's book is a much-needed corrective to the prevailing view of Strauss's relationship to Nietzsche. As in his other books, Lampert focuses on a narrow selection of source material--in this case, Strauss's 16-page essay on Beyond Good and Evil--so the result is kind to the lay reader as well ...
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Herzog (Penguin Classics)
Saul Bellow
Penguin Classics, 2003
Laugh, look, and reconsider
+ Sad Personal Perspective After Author's Own Divorce [34]
+ Between godly insight and madness
+ Tough, gritty, real: how to live in a world that tears you apart
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On Modern Origins: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy
Richard Kennington, Pamela Kraus, ...
Lexington Books, 2004
Sans Pareil
+ Indispensable for students of Francis Bacon
For the sake of having a review of On Modern Origins that is actually worth reading, here is an excerpt from a review by Professor Richard Velkley...
"Superbly practicing the art of reading, Richard Kennington uncovers the founding arguments of the early modern philosophers. His explications of ...
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ARISTOTLE THE POLITICS
CARNES LORD
University Of Chicago Press, 1985
If You Don't Want To Live In A State, You Are Either A God Or A Beast
I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Politics is one of Aristotle's most prescient works that had a profound impact on our Founding fathers.
Nicomachean Ethics (EN) is part of political knowledge. Politics regulates when virtue does not. Laws are created for people who are ...
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Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
Robert Peters
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997
that's a great book for grad students !! read it as early as possible, so you will enjoy your school!
+ Useful.
+ good read.... maybe a little out-dated now??
+ Great for undergrads trying to pursue a PhD
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Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)
Marcel Proust
Modern Library, 2004
The onus to unearth Proust's literary panache is on the reader (all details here)
+ Do it! You know you want to. You've been waiting, wondering. Read it! Read it all!
+ The best of literature, but also exasperating
+ I really had mixed emotions on this novel
+ superb ebook
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Phaedrus (Agora Paperback Editions)
Plato
Cornell University Press, 1998
Best available
+ Review of Hackett Phaedrus
+ Good Item
+ Socrates is cocky
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Four Plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (Focus Classical Library)
Euripides
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2002
student review
I found all 4 plays in this book easy to read & easy to get into...this book was awesome & has made me a fan of Euripides.
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The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom
Simon & Schuster, 1988
Worth a Re-Read if you are to understand the last half of the 20th Century.
+ The American Mind is Likely Closed By Now!
+ A diagnosis of the listlessness and spiritual deformity of our society
Once again, "marred by its biases" Publisher's Weekly "laments" this important book.
The same people who have dumbed down our education system are naturally offended by this revelatory book of "what's changed" and what you missed if you were schooled within the last few decades.
This is ...
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The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition
Plato
Basic Books, 1991
A book that is holy
+ Reason allows us to live for something
Of all those who are today recognized as great philosophers, there may only be a few who merit the title in the true sense, while the others are perhaps more accurately commentators, essayists. Not to take anything away from any of the recognized greats - recognized as great for good reason - but ...
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Natural Right and History (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
Leo Strauss
University Of Chicago Press, 1999
Societies good vs. individual rights
+ An actual attempt to tell you what the book is about.
+ Societies good vs. individual rights
Leo Strauss was a 20th century philosopher who spent his life studying and espousing the teachings of classical philosophical ideas. "Natural Right and History" delineates the fight between those who believe in the predominance of societal rights over individual rights. Here are a few quotes that ...
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