La Boétie: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (English)
English translation of Étienne de La Boétie’s Discours de la servitude volontaire—tyranny, popular consent, and why collective refusal would...
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Original translations with notes and commentary, bringing classic texts and historical sources into accessible contemporary English.
Riemann: On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Basis of Geometry
English translation of Bernhard Riemann’s 1854 Habilitation lecture—n-fold extended quantities, metric structure, curvature intuitions, and...
Augustine: De agone christiano, Chapter 1 (English)
English translation of the opening of Augustine’s De agone christiano (396)—the Christian life as spiritual combat against disordered desire and...
Jakob von Uexküll: Umwelt und Innenwelt (translation)
English translation of the introduction to Uexküll’s Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere—Umwelt theory, animal perception, and a biologist’s...
Bergson-Einstein Debate 1922: English Translation
English notes from the April 1922 Paris meeting of Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein on time, relativity, and philosophy—translated from the...
Heron of Alexandria: Catoptrica Fragment in English
Working English translation of the Greek Catoptrica fragment attributed to Heron—reflective optics, ancient proof style, and notes from Schmidt’s...