Critical Philosophy

“Jones offers new analyses of major figures
in twentieth century theology that are often provocative and always full
of insight, and his own suggestions for theological reconstruction are
original and fertile.

“Jones offers new analyses of major figures
in twentieth century theology that are often provocative and always full
of insight, and his own suggestions for theological reconstruction are
original and fertile.

“A lucid, genial yet thorough introduction...an invaluable
book.”
–Marx Wartofsky, City University of New
York


“Deftly manages to make this theoretical tradition
accessible to new-comers without oversimplifying.

This selection of some of the most important writing of the Frankfurt
School and its critics provides beginning and advanced philosophy students
with a solid grounding in critical theory. Substantial selections have
been chosen from the works of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse,
and Jürgen Habermas as well as well-known feminist and post-structuralist
critics Michel Foucault, Jean-Françoise Lyotard, Nancy Fraser, and
Seyla la Benhabib.

"Ortega can rest easier now; his legacy lives vibrantly in the work of Pedro Blas Gonzalez."
--Bridges
"...focuses upon the Spanish writer, philosopher, and humanist Jose Ortega y Gassett (1883-1955), remembered for his humanistic criticism of the failings of modern civilization.

Nietzsche Unbound penetrates to the heart of the
mysterious meaning of Nietzsche and describes in a highly approachable
way the acute relevance of his thought to all who are concerned to fashion
a spiritually satisfying life in the midst of today's culture of rampant
materialism and disenchantment.

“An absorbing and illuminating read for persons with a philosophical
and literary turn of mind.”–Small Press Book Review
“One of the most original and unsettling of those thinkers who,
in the wake of Sade and Nietzsche, have confronted the possibility
of thought in a world that has lost its myth of transcendence.

"...explains some of the ways philosophers have been trying to make sense of things over the past 150 years. ...analyzes, criticizes, selectively appropriates, and reconstructs writings of existentialists, social and cultural critics, pragmatists, and postmodernists in order to find a coherent interpretation of the current human form of life and its future possibilities.