Lao Tzu

Crispin Sartwell

Kuo Hsiang

Waterway presents a fresh translation of the Tao Te Ching, based on years of working with scholars on the text and teaching it in many translations. It embodies a deep philosophical and poetic re-experiencing of the text. And it presents an unknown Taoist classic, the Wu Wei Ching. This work assembles bits of Kuo Hsiang's 4th-century commentary on the Chuang Tzu into 80 brief passages that serve as a beautiful guide to artistic creation, leadership, and practical action.

A New Translation of the Tao Te Ching, and Introducing the Wu Wei Ching

Waterway

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Six Names of Beauty

Confucius, Lao Tzu and Chinese Philosophy (The World of Philosophy)

Voltairine de Cleyre

Sharon Presley

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Exquisite Rebel

Irreverent and incisive critique of liberal theories of the state.

An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory

Against the State

Argues that the academy's obsession with language, and in particular with narrative, has become a sort of disease.

Toward an Annihilation of Language and History

End of Story

The Practical Anarchist brings to light the work of Josiah Warren, eccentric American genius. Devoting his life to showing the practicality of an astonishing ideal, Warren devoted equal industry to the question of how to make a pair of shoes and how to remake the social world into an individualist paradise. This will be the first chance for many readers to encounter Warren’s writings, and in many cases their first publication since their original appearance in obscure, self-published periodicals, including The Peaceful Revolutionist (1833), the first American anarchist periodical. Moreover, they often appeared in a bizarre experimental typography. This volume presents, out of the welter of bewildering writings left by Warren, a reading text designed for today’ readers and students. It seeks to convey the practical value of many of Warren’s ideas, their continuing relevance.

Writings of Josiah Warren

The Practical Anarchist

Sartwell presents an extreme and provocative philosophy of life. He explores what happens if we love this world precisely as it is, with all of its pain, with all of its evil, with all of its bizarre and arbitrary and monstrous thereness. In a highly personal and brutally direct style, Sartwell explores the themes of transgressive sexuality, political anarchism, addiction, death, and embodiment. The author engages contemporary and historical debates in cultural criticism, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, and expresses deep suspicions about them. He asserts that scientific philosophical conceptualization is a movement toward death, a rejection of reality. Moral and political values - the ethical rejection of the particular precisely from within the particular - are, Sartwell claims, an assault on human authenticity. Thus, transgression - which is described as the affirmation of embodiment through obscenity - is something we radically require.

Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality

This is a multicultural philosophy of art applied to common American and European experience and discussed in relation to Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Native American, and African traditions.

Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions

The Art of Living

"Black autobiographical discourses, from the earliest slave narratives to the most contemporary urban raps, have each in their own way gauged and confronted the character of white society." Sartwell analyses these African American writings and gains a unique perspective on and picture of white identity.--Back cover.

African-American Autobiography and White Identity

Act Like You Know

Explores leadership and civic virtue in American culture.

Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives

Extreme Virtue

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant, witty, and ultimately profound meditation on what is beautiful, Crispin Sartwell begins with six words from six different cultures - ancient Greek's 'to kalon', the Japanese idea of 'wabi-sabi', Hebrew's 'yapha', the Navajo concept 'hozho', Sanskrit 'sundara', and our own English-language 'beauty'. Each word becomes a door onto another way of thinking about, and looking at, what is beautiful in the world, and in our lives. In Sartwell's hands these six names of beauty - and there could be thousands more - are revealed as simple and profound ideas about our world and our selves.

Examines the consequences of utter affirmations of our world as it is, exploring the themes of transgressive sexuality, political anarchism, addiction, death, and embodiment.

Crispin Sartwell

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