This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

The author considers how the Dido and Aeneas episode in Vergil's Aeneid was imitated and transformed in various Renaissance works, culminating in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

In this book, Nietzsche’s concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired by ancient Greek culture, is advanced as the dynamic and organising principle of his philosophical practice, enabling us to ...

The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Transvalue values—what does this mean? It implies that all spontaneous motives, all new ... transvaluation of values can only be accomplished when there is a tension of new needs, and a new set of needy ...