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			Humanity Books Humanity Books, the scholarly imprint of Prometheus Books, publishes academic works of high quality across a wide spectrum of the Humanities. Designed for scholars, students, and the educated public, it is committed to presenting cutting-edge research in philosophy (both analytic and continental philosophy); the history of philosophy; sociology; history; the history of science; political science; and race, ethnicity, and gender studies, among other disciplines. Two new series, Classics in Black Studies and Classics in Women's Studies, offer trade-quality paperback editions of established classics at mass-market prices.Leading scholars such as Bernard Boxill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Lynn Sherr (ABC News), Mary Jo Deegan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Patricia Hill Collins (University of Cincinnati), Joe R. Feagin (University of Florida), and Kenneth W. Goings (Ohio State University) have contributed introductions to these new classic reprints. Our extensive backlist includes classic and hard-to-find works by such distinguished authors as Martin Buber, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Eric Fromm, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Errol Harris, Charles Hartshorne, G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Karl Kautsky, Paul M. Kennedy, Michael Lerner, Domenico Losurdo, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Niccolo Macchiavelli, John Macmurray, Ernest Mandel, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Marx, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Kai Nielsen, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Popkin, S. Radhakrishnan, William Reese, Alan Ryan, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and others. A team of scholars, all experts in their fields, act as consulting editors and assist us in the selection of new acquisitions. Please browse the list of catagories below and click to see titles and specific book descriptions under each catagory. British Studies - Literature British Studies - Politics Classics in Black Studies Classics in Women's Studies Contemporary Studies in Philosophy & the Human Sciences Control of Nature Environment Ethics Fundamental Issues in Philosophy Gateway Bookshelf German Studies JHP Books Key Concepts in Critical Theory Martin Buber Marxism New Releases Philosophy Philosophy and Literary Theory Philosophy of Religion Radical Philosophy Today Revolutionary Studies Selected Backlist British Studies - Literature All Before Them Creditable Warriors Gulliver and the Gentle Reader Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress Order from Confusion Sprung Shakespeare and the Art of Humankindness The Ends of the Earth The Shapes of Revenge British Studies - Politics Continental Commitment The Politics of Grand Strategy The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism Classics in Black Studies Buffalo Soldiers Darkwater My Bondage and My Freedom My Larger Education On Lynchings Recollections of a Former Slave The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States and Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party The Negro The Negro Problem What Answer? Classics in Women's Studies A Colored Woman in a White World An Independent Woman’s Lake District Writings Eighty Years and More Hit Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women Reason, Religion, and Morals The Man-Made World The Pivot of Civilization The Trial of Susan B. Anthony Why Women Are So Woman, Church and State Women at The Hague Contemporary Studies in Philosophy & the Human Sciences Before Ethics Beyond Metaphysics? Dennett and Ricoeur on the Narrative Self Dialectic and Difference Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry God and Being Heidegger and the Question of Time Heidegger and the Subject Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity Illustrations of Being In the Presence of the Sensuous Language and the Unconscious Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking Michel Foucault's Force of Flight Political Philosophy at the Closure of Metaphysics Rationalities, Historicities Seeing and Reading Sensation Structuralism Texts and Dialogues The Deconstruction of Time The Incarnate Subject The Language of Difference The Paths of Heidegger's Life and Thought The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being Translating Heidegger Utopics Control of Nature Controlling Human Heredity Einstein and Our World Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism Scientists & the Development of Nuclear Weapons Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations The Future Is Now The Lysenko Effect The Scientific Revolution Totalitarian Science and Technology Environment A Feminist Cosmology Dirty Virtues Earth at Risk Environmental Restoration Philosophical Ecologies Preserving Wildlife The Culture of Extinction Ethics Assisted Suicide Contemporary Ethical Issues Foundations of Cartesian Ethics Made in Whose Image? The Questions of Moral Philosophy To Do No Harm Fundamental Issues in Philosophy Freedom Values Gateway Bookshelf Germaine de Staël, Daughter of the Enlightenment Speaking Out for America’s Poor Subjugated Animals The Exiled Government The Millenniad German Studies Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz False Start Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? Georg Lukács and Thomas Mann Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology German Encounters with Modernity German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century German Philosophy Luxury Fleet Men's Feminism Rewriting the German Past The German Peasants' War The German Public and the Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1945 The German-American Experience The Resurgence of Right-Wing Radicalism in Germany JHP Books Against Cartesian Philosophy Descartes as a Moral Thinker Philosophy and Theology in a Burlesque Mode Skepticism in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought Key Concepts in Critical Theory Alienation and Social Criticism Democracy Ecology Exploitation Gender Imperialism Justice Racism Socialism Martin Buber A Believing Humanism Chinese Tales Eclipse of God Hasidism and Modern Man Kingship of God Moses Pointing the Way The Knowledge of Man The Origin and Meaning of Hasidism The Tales of Rabbi Nachman Marxism French Marxism between the Wars From Marx to Gramsci Marxism and Freedom New Investigations of Marx's Methods Red Emma Speaks The State in Modern Society New Releases The Accessible Hegel The Conscious Self The Riddle of Human Rights American Naturalism and Greek Philosophy Are You a Machine? Contemporary Ethical Issues Second Edition Culture and Conflict in the Middle East Diogenes the Cynic Disputing Christianity Disputing Christianity Ecology, Second Edition Einstein and Culture Embodying the Postcolonial Life Enslaving Connections Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences Globalization and Justice Great American Women of the Nineteenth Century Heidegger, Decisionism, and Quietism Holocaust Voices Inequality and Violence in the United States Inequality, Power, and Development Integrated Behavioral Health Care Iraq Kosovo Kropotkin Malcolm X and the Third American Revolution New Interpretations of Berkeley’s Thought Nietzsche and the English On the Field of Mercy Origins of the Rwandan Genocide Race, Rhetoric, and Identity Reason and Emancipation Serbia Textual Friendship The Basics of Western Philosophy The Head and the Heart The Heidegger-Jaspers Correspondence The Just State Who Really Invented the Steamboat? Wittgenstein and Approaches to Clarity Women and Globalization Philosophy A Defense of Realism A House Divided Challenging Postmodernism Charles S. Peirce Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Equality and Diversity F. C. S. Schiller on Pragmatism and Humanism Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel's Science of Logic Heidegger, German Idealism, and Neo-Kantianism In Defense of Truth Interpretation, Relativism, and the Metaphysics of Culture Karl Jaspers Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy Knowing and Doing Latin America and Postmodernity Logical Investigations Marx, Reason, and the Art of Freedom Mind, Body, and Freedom Naturalizing the Transcendental New Essays in Fichte's Foundation of the Entire Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge New Essays on the Precritical Kant Nietzsche's Prophecy Old Dead White Men's Philosophy Passion and Virtue in Descartes Philosophy and Truth Reason and Revolution Sartre and Camus The Immorality of Promising The Logic of Pragmatic Thinking The Long Path to Nearness The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill The Underside of Modernity The Undiscovered Wittgenstein The Worlds of Existentialism The Young Hegelians Uncorrected Papers Philosophy and Literary Theory Autoaesthetics Cross-Readings Filming and Judgment Heidegger and Derrida on Philosophy and Metaphor Heidegger and the Poets Heidegger in Question Kierkegaard and the Art of Irony Poetics of Modernity Reframing the Frame of Reason Ritual Thinking The Gravity of Thought The Hyphen The Split Scene of Reading Toward the Postmodern Turning Philosophy of Religion Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, 2nd Edition Kierkegaard's Fragments and Postscript Lack and Transcendence Native American Worldviews Nonduality Philosophers Speak of God Poststructuralism, Feminism, and Religion The Principal Upanishads Radical Philosophy Today Race, Class, and Community Identity The Problems of Resistance Revolutionary Studies A Dreamer's Paradise Lost A Short History of the U.S. Working Class Black Liberation and the American Dream C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism China, Marxism, and Democracy China's Urban Revolutionaries Jean Paul Marat Marxism in Latin America Max Shachtman and His Left Revolutionary Marxism and Social Reality in the Twentieth Century Rosa Luxemburg Rudolf Hilferding Russia Twenty Years After Socialism from Below The Heroic and Creative Meaning of Socialism The Left and the French Revolution The Marxists and the Jewish Question The New South Africa and the Socialist Vision The Place of Marxism in History The Responsibility of Intellectuals The Working-Class Movement in America Trotskyism in the United States U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century War and Revolution World Revolution 1917-1936 Selected Backlist A World Remembered AIDS An American Ethic An Oppositionist For Life Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism Breaking with the Enlightenment Civic Justice Civilization and Barbarity in 20th Century Europe Cleisthenes the Athenian Conditions of Freedom Constitutional Revolution Conversational Sociology Conversations with French Philosophers Cosmos and Anthropos Cosmos and Theos Critical Perspectives on Mao Zedong's Thought Dead Reckonings Defending Rights Defining Dialogue Descartes on God and Human Error Development Through Drama Dimensions of the Hermeneutic Circle Écart & Différance Ecological Enlightenment Fichte Freedom in the Modern World Fundamentals of Philosophy Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform Globalization, State, Identity/Difference Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory Heidegger and the Ideology of War Heidegger's Language and Thinking History and Subjectivity Humanism and Its Aftermath Hypothesis and Perception Inhabiting the Earth Interpreting the Universe Jean Grave and The Anarchist Tradition in France Judaic Man Justice Justifying Legal Punishment Knowing the Past Lacan and the Subject of Law Language and German Idealism Language and Narration in Céline’s Writings Language and Power (Books I and II) Language and Power (Books III, IV, and V) Language and Power (Books VI and VII) Language and Power (Books VIII and IX) Learning to Be Moral Learning to Learn Lenin and the Revolutionary Party Life Histories of African Women Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust Marx and The Missing Link Marxism and the Philosophy of Science Marx's Method in Capital Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge Merleau-Ponty Merleau-Ponty and Metaphor Merleau-Ponty's Later Works and Their Practical Implications Metacritique Michael Faraday Michele Le Doeuff Mind in Action Must We Burn Sade? Myths of Reason New Perspectives on Fichte On Hegel's Logic On Hegel's Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy On the Feminine One World or None Ordinary Social Occasions, Sandcastles, and Structural Reproduction Patriotism Persons in Relation Philosophy as Diplomacy Poetics and Politics in the Art of Rudolf Baranik Pressure Politics in Industrial Societies Racial Formations / Critical Transformations Radical Philosophy of Law Reason and Emotion Rereading Merleau-Ponty Rethinking Fanon Richard Rorty's Politics Russian Intellectual History Sacrificing Truth Sahara and Sudan Secrets of the Cave of Letters Selected Essays on G.W.F Hegel Selected Writings of Eduard Bernstein, 1900-1921 Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages Social Problems and Social Movements Socialism in the Crucible of History Some Chose to Stay Spinoza's Philosophy Stronger Than Dirt Surplus Powerlessness Taking Wrongs Seriously The Curtain Rises The Dialectics of Secret Society Power in States The End of Art and Beyond The Erich Fromm Reader The Foundations of Metaphysics in Science The History of Feudalism The Intellectual Roots of the Italian Enlightenment The Korean Alphabet of 1446 The Limits of Community The Logic of Human Personality The Makers of Classical Archaeology The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science The Nationalism Reader The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism The Origins of Philosophy The Other City The Paradoxical Self The Politics of Western Science The Prince The Problem of Universals The Prophet's Children The Quest for Power The Real World of Democracy Revisited The Reign of Louis XIV The Restitution of Metaphysics The Road to Power The Self as Agent The Social Implications of Bioengineering The Soul of the Salesman The Specter of Capitalism The State and Development in Ethiopia The Substance of Spinoza The Very Idea of Radical Hermeneutics The Villa as Hegemonic Architecture To Live is to Think Trade Union Politics Transcendental Philosophy and Everyday Experience Values Victims or Criminals? Vienna Voices of Color Walter Benjamin War Since 1945 War, Battering, and other Sports Why Althusser Killed his Wife Wittgenstein and Metaphor Wittgenstein on Foundations	Download the New 2008 Humanity Books Catalogue in PDF format.