Thoughts (Gedanken) – Oswald Spengler

A multi-author Festschrift assessing Raymond Aron's political reason, his critique of ideology, and his defense of liberal democracy.

Paulo Freire contrasts extension—transmitting knowledge to peasants—with communication, a dialogue where experts and peasants co-create knowledge as equals.

Paulo Freire argues that reading the world precedes reading the word, making literacy a critical and political act.

Quine's Harvard dissertation generalizes the logical foundations of Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica.

Mendelssohn's Phaedo recasts Plato's deathbed dialogue with Enlightenment proofs of the soul's immortality, written to convince and console.

A pseudepigraphic Greek treatise on ethics attributed to Archytas of Tarentum, pairing moral education with the happy life.

Moses Mendelssohn's 1755 treatise argues from reason alone that the human soul is an immaterial, indivisible substance and…

Raymond Aron's posthumously published lectures examine what history is, how it can be known, and what truth it…

Quine argues that translation is indeterminate: no evidence fixes which of several incompatible manuals correctly renders a foreign…

Bolesław Prus reflects on social change and human progress in this speculative work rooted in Polish positivism.

Eriugena's Periphyseon is a Latin dialogue dividing all reality into four species of nature, from God as creator…

A recovered collection of tabloid columns in which Anton LaVey answers readers on potions, the occult, and life…