Product Description: The Conspiracy is the last and most acclaimed novel by French writer and activist Paul Nizan, who died two years after its publication fighting the Germans at the Battle of Dunkirk. Hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as Nizan’s masterpiece, the book centers upon the figure of Bertrand Rosenthal, a misguided philosophy student studying in pre-war Paris...read more

Three interviews with the eminent twentieth-century philosopher offer a wide-ranging tour of his philosophical and political beliefs, in a volume that shares his perspectives about his debates with Marx, the Cultural Revolution, the U.S. war in Vietnam, and more.

Recently published for the first time in France, letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to one of the world's most acclaimed philosophers shed light on their relationship and her obsessive need to communicate with him.

Letters written by Simone de Beauvoir to one of the world's most acclaimed philosophers shed light on their relationship and her obsessive need to communicate with him

Product Description: Few public intellectuals have had such a big impact outside the academy as Edward Said. This, the first full-length intellectual biography of the groundbreaking author of Orientalism, reveals some startling observations. Abdirahman Hussein argues that und (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tells the stories of a young child growing up in Prague during World War II, a visit from a dead man, a killer, ghosts, war and exile

Product Description: During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between mundane duties like watching weather balloons, to make a series of notes on philosophy, literature, politics, history and autobiography that anticipate the themes of his later masterpieces, and often surpass them in literary verve and directness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Diaries recount Sartre's experiences as a mobilized reservist and express his feelings about philosophy, literary criticism, and the politics of the time