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..". remarkable account of the impact of postmodern philosophy on the question of ethics and politics... commendable also for its balanced view of Heidegger s relationship to politics and ethics.... an excellent account of Heidegger s philosophical understanding of technology..." Choice

This book takes as its point of departure the question of ethics: that values and their pursuit in the West often perpetuate their own worst enemies. At issue are the dangers in the structures and movements of images, values, and ways of knowing that are most intimately a part of our lives.

Living with Indifference is about the dimension of life that is utterly neutral, without care, feeling, or personality. In this provocative work that is anything but indifferent, Charles E. Scott explores the ways people have spoken and thought about indifference. Exploring topics such as time, chance, beauty, imagination, violence, and virtue, Scott shows how affirming indifference can be beneficial, and how destructive consequences can occur when we deny it. Scott's preoccupation with indifference issues a demand for focused attention in connection with personal values, ethics, and...

..". stimulating and insightful... a thoroughly researched and timely contribution to the secondary literature of ethics... " Library Journal

"His important new work establishes Scott... as one of the foremost interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition of the US.... Necessary for anyone working in ethics or the Continental tradition." Choice

..". a provocative discourse on the consequences of the ethical in the thought of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Heidegger." The Journal of Religion

Charles E. Scott's challenging book advances the broad claim that ethics as a...

"Like Foucault and Levinas before him, though in very different ways, Scott makes an oblique incision into phenomenology... it is] the kind of book to which people dazed by the specters of nihilism will be referred by those in the know." --David Wood

..". refreshing and original." --Edward S. Casey

In The Lives of Things, Charles E. Scott reconsiders our relationships with ordinary, everyday things and our capacity to engage them in their particularity. He takes up the Greek notion of phusis, or physicality, as a way to point out limitations in refined and commonplace views of...

Two factions of vampires fight for possession of the Book--an ancient tome that holds the secrets of turning vampires into gods. If it falls into the wrong hands, no mortal life will be untouched.

As a knight from the thirteenth century, Arthur knows what it means to have a code--and it's Arthur's strict enforcement of this Code that's kept vampires safely in the realm of legend.

Terry is an American attending the University of Salamanca until an accidental discovery changes everything she ever believed about her world. She has no idea what she's gotten herself into, and no idea how...