The Great Gatsby
MAGA, Putin, and the Seduction of the Past
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Editor
Daniel Shilansky
Editor, Heritage Canon
Daniel Shilansky is the editor of Heritage Canon, an independent press. The books currently featured on this site belong to the Philosophical Editions series, which pairs classic works with new introductions that reconstruct the intellectual world in which they first appeared.
His research focuses on the relationship between narrative art and the Western philosophical tradition, especially the ways works of literature and film participate in philosophical argument rather than merely illustrating it. He writes on the philosophy embedded in narrative art for both academic and general audiences, on the conviction that the arguments in canonical works are neither obscure nor rarefied, but live and available to any serious reader.
He studied at Tel Aviv University.
Editorial focus
Daniel Shilansky's work begins from the view that literature and film do not simply decorate ideas worked out elsewhere. They often think for themselves, and they do so in forms that ordinary criticism tends to flatten or miss.
The introductions for the Philosophical Editions series are written from that premise. They are meant to be intellectually serious without becoming professionalized prose written only for specialists.
In the catalog
Books in the current series
Death in Venice
Lust, Oil, and the Cost Paid by Children
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Moby Dick
Reason, Obsession, and the Abyss; Or, Make The Pequod Great Again
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The Wendigo
The Loss of Self and the Call of the Inhuman
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The Willows
The Limits of the Human Will
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Irish Apostate
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