Als Begr nder des Empiriokritizismus erlangte Richard Avenarius (1843-1896) Weltruhm und bte erheblichen Einflu auf Philosophen wie Edmund Husserl und Ernst Mach aus. Sein Hauptwerk ist die "Kritik der reinen Erfahrung," in der Avenarius vor allem der kantischen Erkenntnistheorie eine Absage erteilt. In seinem System tritt an die Stelle eines reinen Bewu tseins das Bewu tsein "von etwas." Allein Sinneserfahrungen werden als wirklich betrachtet. Gedankliche Inhalte erkl rt Avenarius zu Scheinbegriffen, denen keine Wahrheit, sondern nur ein vorl ufiger N tzlichkeit zukommt. Avenarius' Philosophie gilt als einer der erfolgreichsten Versuche, Physik und Psychologie in einer Wissenschaft zu vereinen. Zu den prominentesten Gegnern des Empiriokritizismus z hlte Lenin, der in seinen philosophischen Schriften Avenarius heftig attackierte.

Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 - 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed pacifist. In 1919, during the German Revolution, he was briefly Commissioner of Enlightenment and Public Instruction of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. He was brutally murdered when this Republic was overthrown by right wing elements. In his work "Skepticism and Mysticism", Landauer offers insights into the continual dialectical role of mystics and skeptics in advancing human knowledge over the ages. In his search for true cognition and the meaning of the world he explores man's psyche and what it means to be a sentient being.

"The Lessons of Marxism in Light of the Russian Revolution by Boris Brutzkus" examines the Russian economic system after the Russian Revolution. The book includes a biography of Boris Brutzkus and generous footnotes to aid the reader unfamiliar with the theoretical and historical background of this event. A complete copy of "The Communist Manifesto 1848" is included. This is the first time this book has appeared in the English language. The work offers a fresh look at Capitalism and Socialism and is an indispensable companion for understanding contemporary political and economic issues.

Richard Avenarius (born November 19, 1843, Paris-died August 18, 1896, Z rich) was a German-Swiss philospher who formulated the radical positivist doctrine of ""empirical criticism"" or empirio-criticism. The major task of philosophy is to develop a "natural concept of the world" based on pure experience. Traditional metaphysicians believed in two categories of experience, inner and outer, and held that outer experience applies to sensory perception, which supplies raw data for the mind, and that inner experience applies to the processes that occur in the mind, such as conceptualization and abstraction. Avenarius, in his most noted work, Kritik der reinen Erfahrung, 2 volumes (1888-1900), argued that there is no distinction between inner and outer experience, but only pure experience. Avenarius produced a complete and innovative system of philosophy, aiming at investigate the laws of knowledge.

Coriolanus was one of Shakespeare's last tragic plays along with Romeo and Juliet. It was adapted for stage by Bertolt Brecht and made into a movie in 2011 starring Ralph Feinnes. In this adaptation, Coriolanus is the name given to a general after his more than adequate military successes against various uprisings challenging the government of Mundus Novus. A 40 Years' war is underway. His arch enemy, Gulmatyar Kekbuddin, is leader of the tribal Achaemenidian Empire. Following this success, Coriolanus becomes active in politics and seeks political leadership. His temperament is unsuited for popular leadership and he is quickly deposed, whereupon he aligns himself to set matters straight according to his own will. The alliances he forges along and the interests he sets to overturn along the way result in his ultimate downfall. Shakespeare's universal themes of war and individual power offer the reader a fresh look at the conflicts raging in the 21st century.

Paper Mache 1917 is the author's first novella and celebrates the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The epic work explores timeless themes of war, love and hate, tragedy and redemption and offers a fresh historical look at the revolutionary forces unleashed before and after the Russian Revolution in 1917. In some cases, the story uses images made popular by Imaginism, a poetic school founded in Moscow after the Revolution in 1918. The story opens in 1905 and follows the lives of Johan Wagner, a radio specialist in the German Wehrmacht and Rosa Kautsky, a Polish born pianist and translator. The story performs a delicate dance between the meta and macro of people and places in a complex time - against the backdrop of the two major ideologies of the 20th century: the rise of German National Socialism and Soviet Communism. Original translations capture the creative forces of writers like Marina Tsvetaeva, and Goethe - voices not often heard in the West.

Lantern on the Borders of Uncreated Spaces is a book of contemporary American poems and writings that inspire and widen the reader experience. The work seeks to travel to borders of contemporary thought and inspire a more compassionate tomorrow through poems, haikus and other writings. Discover something new!

Marina Tsvetaeva's translated "Poems to Bohemia", with other original translations from Czech poet Josef Hora.

The Immeasurable House of Being is a collection of koans, haikus and an assortment of poems dedicated to the art of poetry and those sentient beings that struggle to live in our world.

"Schweigen in den verschneiten Feldern" (1962) war Robert Blys erster Gedichtband. Der Autor feiert die Unschuld der Natur und das Leben in Amerika. Diese besondere Andacht feiert die ursprYngliche Stimme der amerikanischen Poesie von Robert Bly.