Facts about The Philosophical Library
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Dagobert Runes founded Philosophical Library and served as its editor, personally overseeing many of its landmark translations and philosophical reference works.
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New York's Philosophical Library published one of the first English editions of Friedrich Nietzsche's works to reach a mass American readership.
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A publisher of serious philosophical works, Philosophical Library also brought Albert Einstein's writings to a broader American audience.
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Philosophical Library published the first English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, bringing her feminist philosophy to American readers.
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Founded in New York in 1941, Philosophical Library published English translations of works by existentialist and continental European philosophers, including Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.