Planktos Press

Featured Books

Dance And The Soul

A new translation from the French of Paul Valéry’s L’Âme et La Danse (1921).

Speech To The Youth

The first English language translation from the French of Jean Jaurès’ Discours à la jeunesse (1903).

Stoic Ethics

The first English language translation from the French of Julie Favre’s Devoirs de l’homme envers ses semblables, originally published in her La Morale des Stoïciens (1888).

About Planktos Press

Planktos Press publications regularly explore the idea that what we call our “own” thoughts, actions, and identity, actually do not originate with, nor occur because of, ourselves individually.

Planktos Press participates in philosophical traditions that counter the supposed divisions of presence versus absence (structuralism), and real versus representation (phenomenology).

Within these themes, Planktos Press also publishes original translations into English of select French language philosophical works.