Ph Press: 7 books

Fictionalized but true to the salient facts, Zarathustra Stone relates the story of the day Friedrich Nietzsche thought the thought that changed his life, and that would, he believed, alter the course of western intellectual history. The Eternal Recurrence of the Same. Eternal Return. The narrative...

Moby-Dick as Philosophy is at base a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Herman Melville’s masterwork, Moby-Dick. The commentary form of the book subserves a higher end, the presentation of an ideal of the type philosopher. Superimposing portraits of Plato, Melville, and Nietzsche—the thinkers themselves,...

Dia·mytho·log·õmen: the first person plural present subjunctive active form of an ancient Greek verb meaning 'to converse,' or, more literally, 'to tell stories,' and more literally still, 'to speak about by way of myth.' Adapted from Plato’s Phaedo (70b6), the word functions here as a hortatory...

Thinking Life is a narrative exploration of such themes as the decline of the contemporary university, man's alienation from nature, modern melancholia, Dionysian intoxication, the relative value of knowledge, truth, and artistry in the life of the philosopher, and the creative construction of self....

Ever since he found her sleeping naked in the hay barn, Shayne has tried to learn the identity of the beautiful woman he knows only by the name he’s given her. Ezzie’s obscure language is impossible to translate, but it has the power to break wild horses. Will she also break Shayne’s heart?  

Olivia's engaged to a sexy, successful guy, their wedding's shaping up to be the social event of the season, and her future looks like the inevitable sequel to her perfect life. So, why does a brief glance into a stranger's dark eyes leave her shaking with desire? Finding herself alone with him in...

Passion rules the heart and terror rules the night… South Carolina, 1788. The African beauty emerging from his family crypt is a stranger to Julian Mouret, the refined owner of Lion’s Court plantation. A dancer and a mystery, she spins a strange, dark, and impossible tale of peril and flight....