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BOOKS FOR COURSES IN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION TWENTY FIFTEEN PENGUIN GROUP USA PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION PHILOSOPHY RELIGION WESTERN PHILOSOPHY ... 3 RELIGION IN TODAY’S WORLD . 32 ANCIENT . 3 Religion & Science . 33 Plato . 5 Relgion in America . 35 MEDIEVAL . 6 BIBLE STUDIES ........ .36 RENAISSANCE & EARLY MODERN (c . 1600–1800) . 6 CHRISTIANITY ......... 37 LATER MODERN (c . 1800-1960) . 8 Women in Christianity . 38 The Penguin History CONTEMPORARY . 9 of the Church . 39 Ayn Rand . 11 Timothy Keller . 40 EASTERN PHILOSOPHY ... 13 Diarmaid MacCulloch . 41 SOCIAL & POLITICAL JUDAISM ............. 43 PHILOSOPHY .......... 14 BUDDHISM............ 43 Karl Marx . 16 His Holiness the Dalai Lama . 44 Philosophy & the Environment . 18 ISLAM ............... 46 PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE .. 19 Charles Darwin . 20 HINDUISM ............ 47 Philosophy & Technology . 22 NATIVE AMERICAN ...... 48 The Penguin Library PHILOSOPHY & ART ..... .24 of American Indian History . 49 PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION IN LITERATURE ........ .24 ANCIENT RELIGION Jack Kerouac . 28 & MYTHOLOGY ......... 49 Penguin Great Ideas Series . 29 ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION . 51 Memoir . 30 SPIRITUALITY ......... .52 REFERENCE .............. 54 COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDES ..... 55 INDEX.................. 57 COLLEGE FACULTY INFO SERVICE . 61 EXAMINATION COPY FORM ......62 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPY FORM . 63 PENGUIN GROUP USA ACADEMIC SERVICES | 375 HUDSON STREET, NY, NY 10014 www.penguin.com/academic Marcus Aurelius PHILOSOPHY MEDITATIONS Newly Translated and Edited with Notes by Martin Hammond Introduction by Diskin Clay WESTERN Includes chronology, explanatory notes, index PHILOSOPHY of quotations, and index of names. Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044933-4 • $11.00 Great Ideas Series Translated by Maxwell Staniforth Bryan Magee Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-303627-2 • $12.00 THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY THE ESSENTIAL MARCUS AURELIUS A fully-illustrated introduction to 2,500 years Translated with an Introduction of Western philosophy. by Jacob Needleman and John P. Piazza DK • 240 pp. • 978-0-789-47994-5 • $24.95 Cornerstone Edition Places the philospher-king’s writings within the Robert Paul Wolff, editor world’s great religious and ethical traditions. TEN GREAT WORKS OF PHILOSOPHY Aristotle Tarcher • 144 pp. • 978-1-58542-617-1 • $10.00 Introduction and Commentaries by the editor THE METAPHYSICS Includes: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates from Translated with an Introduction Phaedo, Plato; Poetics, Aristotle; The Ontological Proof St. by Hugh Lawson-Tancred Jonathan Barnes, editor Anselm, from Proslogium, St. Anselm; St. Thomas’ Proofs of Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-044619-7 • $15.00 EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY God’s Existence, St. Thomas Aquinas; The Summa Theologic Translated by the editor Meditations on the First Philosophy, René Descartes; An THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION In these illuminating pre-Socratic texts, Dem- Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Translation, Introduction and Notes by P. J. Rhodes ocritus, Zeno, Pythagoras, and Heraclitus initi- Hume; Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, Imman- Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044431-5 • $15.00 ate a revolution in human thought and pave uel Kant; Utilitarianism, John Stuart; The Will to the way for Plato and Aristotle. Introduction, Believe, William James. THE ART OF RHETORIC further readings, and appendix on sources. Signet Classics • 592 pp. • 978-0-451-52830-8 • $8.95 Translated with an Introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044815-3 • $16.00 Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044510-7 • $16.00 ANCIENT DE ANIMA On the Soul Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Hugh Lawson-Tancred THE GREEK SOPHISTS Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044471-1 • $16.00 Translated with an Introduction and Notes by THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS John Dillon and Tania Gergel Translated by J. A. K. Thomson Each chapter focuses on the work of one charac- Revised with Notes and Appendices ter—Gorgias, Prodicus, Protagoras, and Anti- by Hugh Tredennick phon, among others—with commentary, a chro- Introduction and Bibliography by Jonathan Barnes nology, and a bibliography provided for each. Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-044949-5 • $13.00 Penguin Classics • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-043689-1 • $17.00 POETICS CLASSICAL LITERARY CRITICISM Translated with an Introduction by Malcolm Heath Plato’s Ion and Republic, Chapters 2-3 and 10; Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-044636-4 • $13.00 Aristotle’s Poetics; Horace’s The Art of Poetry; THE POLITICS Longinus’s On the Sublime Translated by T. A. Sinclair Translated by Penelope Murray and T. S. Dorsch Revised by Trevor J. Saunders Marcus Tullius Cicero Introduction and Notes by Penelope Murray Introductions by Sinclair and Saunders discuss u ON LIVING AND DYING WELL Presents the core classical texts for under- the influence of the work on philosophers, its Newly Translated with an Introduction standing literature in lucid, fully accessible modern relevance, and Aristotle’s political beliefs. and Notes by Thomas Habinek translations. This edition contains Greek and English glossa- Philosophical treatises on such diverse and Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044651-7 • $13.00 ries, and a bibliography for further reading. trenchant topics as friendship, religion, death, Penguin Classics • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-044421-6 • $14.00 fate, and scientific inquiry by the great Roman Mark Adams u orator—now available in a new translation. u THE PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE MEET ME IN ATLANTIS Translated by J. L. Creed and A. E. Wardman Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-045556-4 • $16.00 My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City Introduction and Commentaries SELECTED WORKS See Memoir, page 30 by Renford Bambrough Translated with an Introduction by Michael Grant Afterword by Susanne Bobzien Includes Against Verres, I, Twenty-Three Letters, Aristophanes Signet Classics • 544 pp. • 978-0-451-53175-9 • $7.95 The Second Philippic Against Antony, On Duties, THE FROGS and Other Plays III, and On Old Age. Revised with an Introduction W. H. Auden, editor Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-044099-7 • $16.00 and Notes by Shomit Dutta THE PORTABLE GREEK READER ON THE GOOD LIFE Includes The Wasps and The Poet and the Women. Penguin • 734 pp. • 978-0-14-015039-1 • $20.00 Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044969-3 • $12.00 Translated with an Introduction by Michael Grant Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-044244-1 • $17.00 THE BIRDS AND OTHER PLAYS Translated by Alan Sommerstein and David Barrett For instructions on requesting permission to ON GOVERNMENT Also includes The Knights, The Assembly-Wom- copy Penguin Group (USA) titles for course- Translated with an Introduction by Michael Grant en, Peace, and Wealth. packs or other uses please visit: Includes Against Verres, the Phillippics, For Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044951-8 • $13.00 penguin .com/permissions. Murena, For Balbus, On Laws, On the State, and the Brutus. Notes, appendixes, maps, index. LYSISTRATA AND OTHER PLAYS Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-044595-4 • $16.00 Translated with an Introduction Join our College Faculty Information Service for by Alan H. Sommerstein personal assistance in selecting books for your THE NATURE OF THE GODS Also includes The Acharnians and The Clouds. college course . See page 61 for more informa- Translated by Horace C. P. McGregor Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044814-6 • $10.00 tion, or go to penguin .com/facinfo . Introduction by J. M. Ross Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044265-6 • $16.00 u Denotes new or forthcoming title Audiobook available PHILOSOPHY 2015 3 George S. 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Includes preface to each section, suggestions Penguin Classics • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-243765-0 • $14.00 for further reading, explanatory notes, and a glossary of names. Hippocrates Penguin Classics • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-044702-6 • $17.00 HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS Edited by G. E. R. Lloyd Lucretius Translated by J. Chadwick ON THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-044451-3 • $17.00 Translated by Ronald E. Latham Introduction and Notes by John Godwin Horace and Persius This classic poem, translated here in clear, THE SATIRES OF HORACE AND PERSIUS accessible prose, was the seminal text of Epicu- Translated with an Introduction rean science and philosophy.