His is an extradinary book, especially for an American writingabout German poetry. Mr. Grundlehner should write it (poetry andliterature)--not write about it. He writes with style and grace, and his potential is there for the reader to behold. A must read. Even Nietzsche would be proud.

Whether one is interested in Marxist theory or in a scholarly treatment of Hegelian philosophy, this new collection of Raya Dunayevskaya's writings on the dialectic in Hegel and Marx is a must-read. _The Power of Negativity_ is a truly compelling book for anyone who wants to delve into Hegel's thought, Marx's relation to dialectics, and the major debates on dialectical philosophy in 20th Century Marxism.

_The Power of Negativity_ illuminates all of this through a range of pieces, including detailed summaries and extensive commentaries on Hegel's most philosophically important works: the Phenomenology of Mind, the Science of Logic, the Encyclopedia Logic, and the Philosophy of Mind. It contains several expositions of Dunayevskaya's unique and thoughtful interpretation of Hegel, as well as of her analysis of "Marx's transformation of Hegel's revolution in philosophy into a philosophy of 'revolution in permanence,'" which presents her views on what is fundamental to a Marxist concept of a new society, from the breakdown of the division between mental and physical labor to the transformation of the relationship between women and men. It contains correspondence with such scholars as Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, George Armstrong Kelly, Louis Dupre, Jonathan Spence, and C.L.R. James, as well as worker-thinkers Charles Denby and Harry McShane; and lectures to audiences as varied as Hegel scholars, African-American workers, and Japanese student radicals. It contains philosophic critiques and commentaries on major theoreticians such as Lukacs, Korsch, Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Mao, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as expositions of her own distinctive Marxist-Humanist philosophic standpoint.

Dunayevskaya came of age in the period when Stalin's counter-revolution, coming from within the revolutionary movement, succeeded in transforming what grew out of the Russian Revolution into its opposite, totalitarian state-capitalism that still called itself "Communism." She recognized the Russian Revolution's transformation into opposite as a fundamental challenge to revolutionary Marxism, and set about using Marx's economic categories and Russia's "five-year plan" statistics to prove that Russia had become a state-capitalist society. But she also saw that an economic/political answer was not sufficient and a re-creation of Marx's philosophy of revolution was required to meet the challenge of the age. This led to her founding of the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism, to which an "unchained" version of Hegel's dialectic of absolute negativity is central. As Dunayevskaya put it in one of the pieces in _The Power of Negativity_:

"...because Absolute Negativity signifies transformation of reality, the dialectic of contradiction and totality of crises, the dialectic of liberation, Hegel's thought comes to life at critical points of history, called by him 'birth-times of history.'"

A thorough, clear, and accessible introduction explores the relationship of the dialectic to the nature of the present moment and the relationship of Dunayevskaya's work to contemporary issues in dialectical philosophy. The introduction also gives an overview of her writings on dialectics as well as an overview of the book and its structure, after which the reader is well prepared to plunge into the rest of the book. This book makes a contribution to the clarification of theoretical issues that are central to the problem of transforming reality. One of its virtues is that it provides accessible discussions of some of Hegel and Marx's philosophic works, many in the form of lectures and informal discussions.

This book is a translation of Stambaugh's doctoral dissertation written in Germany under the title _Untersuchungen zum Problem der Zeit bei Nietzsche_ in 1958. Much of what Stambaugh writes (which should be noted was in criticism of and opposition to contemporary Nietzsche scholarship at the time in Germany as represented by Lowith and Heidegger) would later become standard in Nietzsche studies through the publication of Deleuze's _Nietzsche et la philosophie_ in 1962: e.g., the resolution of the "conflict" of the so-called teleological character of the concept of will to power and the non-teleological eternal return by delineating Nietzsche's understanding of "will" as naturalistic and cosmological rather than anthropomorphic; the explication of Nietzshce's anti-Newtonian concept of space as relations of force rather than formal. Stambaugh provides a wealth of information and ingenious interpretation that cannot be touched upon in this limited space. The only issue I have is with her contention that Nietzsche's concept of time remains formal. I am not sure the agrument she presents throughout leads to this conclusion. But this is perhaps a mere semantic difference and need not contain the force of Nietzsche's thought of eternal return as such, which Stambaugh readily concedes.

If you are interested in understanding Nietzsche's ontological explications of will to power and eternal return this is the best book available in English.

Jasper's book is one of those books that you are so impressed by you work to memorize and apply in all thinking processes. His discription of existentialism in one's chaotic center of concealed knowledge with how we perceive reality is essential and the foundation behind all thinking in philosophy, science and religion.

Jasper speaks of all thinking within a horizon that can be transcended. All horizons being within a horizon he names "the encompassing," which can be seen in two modes, as all Being in itself, or as all Being within which we are. It is here within which we are, we perceive reality in three ways: by empirical existence, consciousness and spirit. In turn we use reason to formulate, objectify and create absolutes, yet at the same time we need to use our irrational concealed knowledge, that is, the dark ground and center, of all modes, the existenz, to allow our reason to be open and apart from mere intellectual indifference. All demarcations are relative, yet existenz without reason is unrelated to Transcendence. Each without the other loses the genuine continuity of Being, and therefore, the reliability ceases to be authentic.

Reason clarifies our existenz, while our existenz gives content to our reason. Jaspers also goes into the idea of communicating truth, the prioity and limits of ratonal thought and compares the ideas of Nietzsche and Kiergaard. The book is brilliant.

This in excellent edition on the development of the Austro-Hungarian Army before the First World war. The author's exhaustive research comes through in this thorough and almost faultless study. Highly recommmended for any historian in this field.

This book contains a thoughtful and provoking analysis of Nietzsche's influences on theology and philosophy. Leaving no one out, the book examines interpretations of Nietzsche's work from Heidegger to Bonhoeffer, Nehamas to Nussbaum. It is a monumental undertaking and extraordinarily useful in understanding the theological/philosophical dialogue concerning Nietzsche's intended atheism and its consequences.

As we move into the 21st century I suspect this book will no longer be out of print. Pooh-poohed by the scientific establishment, Baron von Reichenbach's painstaking research on the forces of Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallization, and Chee reveal a hitherto still largely unidentified force in nature. The few scientists who took the trouble to go through his carefully documented experiments found they were able to replicate the results.

His initial research into the various forces mentioned in the title was conducted with subjects who were in a poor state of health. This rendered them more sensitive to the phenomena they reported. Later, Von Reichenbach was able to work with healthy people as well. He found that many were just as sensitive to the phenomena and that this was more widespread than he had thought.

This is more a textbook for the serious student of unexplained forces in nature (rather than a scintillating Harry Potter-type read) and, with a little application, the open minded could find that the insight to be gained from this research may be invaluable in the years to come.

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Hayek wrote the original 'Road to Serfdom' which appeared in 1944 and which still, today, is a salutory reminder of the fate which awaits us should we put too much faith in the state under whichever political persuasion.

This little book, a reprint of the version which appeared in the Reader's Digest, deserves five stars for a number of reasons.

Firstly for the central message which it contains about the dangers of the collectivist state and the concentration of powers that such a state holds unto itself. Hayek dedicated his book to the socialists of all parties by which he meant that in all political parties, and indeed in the minds of many who hold no party affiliation, there are those who hold that the only way to achive a particular end is through the power of the state. He shows however, that the state which accumulates power eventually will turn that power onto the people and in the process dehumanizes those that wield power such that any revolting activity becomes justifiable. This book contains the central tenents of his arguments which are laid out in full in the unabridged version. Hayek abhors the development of the state in modern societies seeing the entity which is the state as a sort of evil empire and cautions people to be watchful and on their guard so that they maintain a healthy suspicion of the state and act to keep it from becoming too powerful. Yet, ironically, Hayek sees the tendency for such states to flourish in the so-called free societies of England and the United States. Here in New Jersey, earlier in 2002, the city of Morristown passed an ordinance which limits the number of pets which can be held in an individual household. Clearly the state intervenes too much in our lives already.

Secondly, the original Reader's Digest version, reflecting consumer demand, published this reprint at the front of it's magazine instead of at the end which was it's normal practice as well as exceeding it's normal print run many times over.

Thirdly, the editing down of the original to the condensed size is a marvel given that none of the essential essence of the original is not lost.

Hayek was originally writing in the face of the existing totalitarian regimes which existed in a number of European countries in the early 1940's and the growing strength and power of the USSR. He cautions the free nations of the West to beware the growth of the state and to fight against it. The book has a real contemporary relevance too with the world's attention being foccussed mainly on Iraq but also increasingly on the nations of Africa. Clearly the terrible and dramatic series of events unfolding in Zimbabwe are a horrific reminder of what can happen if the state and it's servants become too powerful.

For anyone believing in freedom this is a must read book.

This book was first published in 1920 and made a revolution. F.Munzer is one of the contibutors of the Real Encyclopaedie of Pauly-Wissowa in which he has wrote about 5000 entries of Roman names. His books marks the debut of prosopography, a technique who use roman nomenclature to study the aristocracy and find evolution in institutions, alliances between parties and who really rules Rome. His book is a reference for all student who is interest in roman Republic. The translation 79 years later tells you why.