William Kluback

"The Poetry of the Nomad" is a unique attempt to write a nomad's poetry, to encounter both desert and book, to speak and to be silent toward the divine. The poet accepts and denies the divine. His conversations are heard and not heard. Words designate and transfigure their designations. Men listen and they understand, but understanding is the beginning of nonunderstanding. This is a dialogue of a nomad, a wandering dialogue, one that is in the book and beyond it.

who is absorbed by science and medicine. This is William Kluback's seventh volume in a series of studies on Paul Val ry. This book shows how Val ry went beyond philosophy to wisdom. His achievement was so rare that we remain fascinated by his writings. We see in him a man whose constructions build bridges from one human endeavor. He is a poet who is absorbed by science and medicine.

This is William Kluback's sixth volume on Paul Valery. As Kluback moved from one volume to another, he realized how Valery mastered the human mind; how he saw in it man's most distinguished power. In face of the Gulags and the Holocaust, of mass murder, and universal deception, Valery maintained his faith in rationality. In this faith of reason, he found the strength to continue his work. We study him because we believe that rationality is our guide and protector."

William Kluback has put together a book of imagined conversations based on the poetical and philosophical ideas of Leopold Sedar Senghor, president of Senegal (1960-1980). A poet and statesman, Senghor believes in the moral evolution of humanity and embodies a universalism rare in a world of nationalism and power politics."

This is the first book length study of one of Romania's greatest poets. Benjamin Fondane was a close friend of Lev Cheslov, a profound critic of contemporary European thought, and a thoughtful critic of the role of the Jew in Western civilization. In Fondane's work we confront the moral fiber of our age.

This book is an imaginary conversation with Juan Ramon Jimenez. William Kluback follows the journey of Juan Ramon and Platero, to adventure into the world, speaking of what it means to confront the foibles and opinions of human beings. Confronting the poet, the author seeks not merely to describe and analyze poetry and prose, but to ponder the affects they have on his thoughts. In other words, the author imagines Juan Ramon present; he wants to respond to his presence."

In 1939, most of the thinkers and philosophers in Catalonia left their native land to evade the encroaching totalitarian forces of Franco. Thus began a long exile from which they never returned. For the first time in English, this book recounts their history and documents their impressive philosophical accomplishments.

This book emerged from a life-long study of the works of Franz Kafka. It was created during my years of study in Israel with Hugo Bergman and Felix Weltsch. Kafka was never an object of study. He was a spiritual companion who never left my literary and poetical studies. He was never an object of knowledge. His paradoxes and parables permeated the logic of writing. Kafka is a companion who is with you and away from you. His presence and his absence guided this book. It is an unfinished book.

Devoted to the art of creativity, to the analysis of the creative act, Valery was recognized as the greatest intellectual figure of the twentieth century. This is a book of conversations, an intimate reading of texts attempting to absorb their insights, their elegance and their tones. Reading Valery is an aesthetic experience, a feeling linking the reader to the finesse of thinking. This is the second volume of the author's Paul Valery studies. The first volume was published by Peter Lang in 1987."

"From the Foreword by Louis Dupre, Yale University: " -This work, glowing with admiration and enthusiasm for now mostly neglected thinkers, proves how beneficial and, indeed, how adventurous can be the journey to oneself through the past that fashioned it. The author invites us to revisit ourselves while abandoning our seclusiveness. We should thank the gentle guide for showing where the way backward leads home to the present.-"

Where the philosopher has feared to tread, in a realm that has been declared not only non-philosophical, but anti-philosophical, this study attempts quietly to illuminate Paul Valery's reflections on literature, painting, sculpture and poetry. Professor Kluback ventures into this world of aesthetic insights which has often seemed reserved only for the artist, and off limits to the philosopher, whose explorations tend increasingly to be confined to the technicalities of logic and dialectic."

Presents a summary of the philosophical views of French thinker Eric Weil. The major innovation of Weil's discourse is to embody absolute knowledge in the discourse of such categories as truth, discussion, object, self, God, condition, consciousness, intelligence, personality, the absolute, the unmediated particular, the finite, action, meaning, and wisdom.

Studies the Neo-Kantian Idea of Humanity in both philosophy and theology, which represents the finest achievement of German intellectual history from Lessing to Hermann Cohen. This volume shows the idea's force in tradition, its decline, and the following rise in the nationalism and folk mysticism that characterized Hitler's Germany. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.

Studies the Neo-Kantian Idea of Humanity in both philosophy and theology, which represents the finest achievement of German intellectual history from Lessing to Hermann Cohen. This volume shows the idea's force in tradition, its decline, and the following rise in the nationalism and folk mysticism that characterized Hitler's Germany. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.