The author provides an examination of what Mailer found out about power, outlining the important political classic "The Naked and the Dead" through the mythopoeic epic "Ancient Evenings". He establishes Mailer's credentials as a radical novelist seeking usable as well as imaginative truths about Marxism, the right, self, sexuality, language, consciousness, aesthetics and myth. This argued study sheds new light on the way Mailer's fiction develops, challenges the authority of much of the previous wisdom in the field and adds an extra dimension to our understanding of this often controversial, often complex author.

Product Description: The perfect package for Nietzsche scholars and for anyone interested in Nietzsche studies. This book is an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the thought of this fascinating figure. For everything Nietzsche, this unusual introduction provides a separate introductory essay for each of his major works...read more

This important new book argues that Henry James' fiction reveals a sophisticated theory of moral understanding and moral motivation. The claim is that James is engaged in a distinctive kind of original thinking and reflecting on modern moral life in his novels and short stories. The book offers important new interpretations of many novels as well as several short stories. It is written by one of the pre-eminent interpreters of the modern European philosophical tradition and will interest philosophers as well as literary critics. Moreover, the style is completely non-technical, with no reliance on contemporary literary or philosophical theory, and will therefore be accessible to students and general readers.

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the issue of modernity became a philosophical problem in European tradition.