Flyleaf Books

featuring Gabriel Trop, Associate Professor of German   One of the most original and fruitful minds of the Twentieth Century —In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.—Penguin Classics —It is hard to name another thinker of the twentieth century more sought after as a guide to the dilemmas of the twenty-first.—The New Yorker —Arendt…

featuring Gabriel Trop, Associate Professor of German   One of the most original and fruitful minds of the Twentieth Century —In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.—Penguin Classics —It is hard to name another thinker of the twentieth century more sought after as a guide to the dilemmas of the twenty-first.—The New Yorker —Arendt…

featuring Sarah E. Boyd, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature   The birth of detective fiction as a genre —Edgar Allan Poe introduced to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, inspiring the creation of countless literary sleuths, among them Sherlock Holmes.—Modern Library Classics —"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice.—Dorothy L. Sayers —Poe’s formula appealed in the nineteenth century because detective stories promised that reasoning could…