Author: John Sallis

A collection of philosophical essays on place and nature, featuring beautiful paintings and drawings.What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on t …

The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major guiding thread of Logic of Imagination. Moving beyond the horizons of his earlier work, Force of Imaginat …

A reflection on the urgent need for a new philosophical understanding of, and relationship with, nature. John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and th …

Force of Imagination The Sense of the Elemental John Sallis A bold and original investigation into how imagination shapes thought and feeling. ‘This is a bold new direction for the author, one that h …

‘[Sallis’s] ideas are presented in a singular, scholarly, remarkable, captivating, conceptually rigorous, dense, and deep manner. . . . Highly recommended.’ —Choice ‘This fascinating book by one of t …

"A remarkable collection of essays that serve as a rewarding introduction to the more mature thought of Sallis . . . a feast of discourse." -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews John Sallis’s t …

John Sallis’s thought is oriented to two overarching tasks: to bring to light the elemental in nature and to show how the imagination operates at the very center of human experience. He undertakes th …

A presentation of the two-semester lecture course on Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971 by the esteemed American philosopher.Devoted primarily to a close reading of the Fren …

An exercise in the careful reading of the dialogues in their originary character."Being and Logos is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration . . . Its power to illuminate the text . …

An exercise in the careful reading of the dialogues in their originary character."Being and Logos is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration . . . Its power to illuminate the text . …

This volume of the collected writings of John Sallis presents a two-semester lecture course on Maurice Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971. Devoted primarily to a close readi …

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"The major American philosopher . . . makes us want to re-read the Platonic text with fascination. And that is but its grandest gift." -Daniel Guerriere, professor emeritus of philosophy at …

This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosophical reflections on nature, art, and music by taking …

The essays collected in this volume take a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophy. They consider such topics as H …

Working from newly available texts in Heidegger’s Complete Works, Krzysztof Ziarek presents Heidegger at his most radical and demonstrates how the thinker’s daring use of language is an integral part …

The Verge of Philosophy is both an exploration of the limits of philosophy and a memorial for John Sallis s longtime friend and interlocutor Jacques Derrida. The centerpiece of the book is an extende …

This volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture courses on Kant. Each course was devoted respectively to one of Kant’s three Critiques, and so the book as a whole treats the …

On Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher John Sallis’ commentaries on Plato’s dialogues the Symposium and the Statesman. Drawn from two lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent …

The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato’s dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essay …

This second edition of The Gathering of Reason expands on John Sallis’s classic study of Kant’s First Critique. This study examines the relation of imagination to reason and to human knowledge and ac …

In Platonic Legacies John Sallis addresses certain archaic or exorbitant moments in Platonism. His concern is to expose such moments as those expressed in the Platonic phrase ‘beyond being’ and in th …

Die Problemlage, von der Sallis ausgeht, ist die noch keineswegs bewältigte, aber auch nicht mehr mit Aussicht auf Erfolg revidierbare Einsicht, dass die das abendländische Denken von Beginn an leite …

"The major American philosopher . . . makes us want to re-read the Platonic text with fascination. And that is but its grandest gift." -Daniel Guerriere, professor emeritus of philosophy at …

The work of the contemporary Chinese painter prompts reflections on nature, art, and music from one of America’s leading philosophers.This text by John Sallis carries out a series of ruminations by t …

Since Hegel, philosophers have declared repeatedly that metaphysics is at an end, a pronouncement that has sparked much contemporary philosophical debate. What exactly does the end, or closure, of me …

Ethicality and Imagination is the astounding conclusion to John Sallis’s landmark trilogy launched with Force of Imagination and Logic of Imagination. In this new work, Sallis embarks on an unforgett …

Nietzsche’s Voices, a much-anticipated volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis, presents his two-semester lecture course on Nietzsche offered in the Philosophy Department of Duquesne Universi …

"A remarkable collection of essays that serve as a rewarding introduction to the more mature thought of Sallis . . . a feast of discourse." -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews John Sallis’s t …

This volume in the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture course on German Idealism, tracing its development from the reception of Kant through the works of Fichte and Schelling. With …

This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger’s monumental Being and Time. The lectures were presented during the 1985–86 academic year a …

Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis expos …