Philosophers

First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on...

Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, humorous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, the rise of...

Volume 2 of Josef Pieper's three-part autobiography is here presented for the first time in English translation. The volume represents not just a simple continuation of a seamless story. The first volume dealt with Pieper's life from his birth in 1904 to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482321Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

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Emery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France. He left some six hundred letters addressed to the four corners of literary Europe; among his correspondents, acquaintances, and friends were men of the stature of Jean...

Genevieve Rodis-Lewis is uniquely qualified to celebrate Rene Descartes. This major intellectual biography illuminates the personal and historical events of Descartes's life, from his birth and early years in France to his death in Sweden, his burial,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826215895Author Eric VoegelinFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams)...

First published in 1961, The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru is an attempt to coordinate Jawaharlal Nehru's ideas which, in essence, reflect his political philosophy. Nehru distinguished himself as a philosopher-politician, thinking somewhat as...

Alain L. Locke, in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that 'the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem'. The first biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the untold story of...

Karl Marx, part of the Library of World Biography Series, explores the Industrial Revolution by detailing the life and work of Karl Marx. The text is aimed primarily at undergraduates with little or no background knowledge of Marx or his theories. This...

David Hume (1711-1776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert major influence on philosophy today. His empiricism, naturalism, and psychology of the mind and the...

A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist Lives series, Andrew Pearmain explores the life of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578365473Author Eliezer SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Raven Recording, IncPublisher Raven Recording, IncWeight(grams) 590g

Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, humorous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, the rise of...

From a description of Sartre's hitherto unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's declining years, this intimate portrait incorporates previously untold aspects of Sartre's private, political, and literary life, in a new edition of the...

A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389133Author Eric LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482062Author Christoph LindenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Rudolf Steiner PressPublisher Rudolf Steiner PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943657087Author James C KlaggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Simply CharlyPublisher Simply CharlyWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of...

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author,...

Revealing and enlightening, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin gives a close-up view of one of the foremost thinkers of our time An interview with the noted British philosopher and historian of ideas, conducted by the Iranian philosopher Jahanbegloo, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199926640Author Emily WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 164mm * 24mm

The ancient world of fifth century Greece, an astonishing period of cultural development that helps situate the originality of Socrates, and to the city-state of Athens in particular. The social, political and cultural currents flowing through Athens are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909771192Author Jonathan ClementsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Albert Bridge BooksPublisher Albert Bridge BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning...

Learn in a week, remember for a lifetime!In just one week, this accessible book will give you knowledge to last forever. End of chapter summaries and multiple choice questions are all designed to help you test your knowledge and gain confidence. So...

Alexander Herzen-philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century-was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and...

Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days...

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. Stephen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734227826Author David Edmund MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Alpha Centauri PressPublisher Alpha Centauri PressWeight(grams)...

Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. But East West tensions began to strain their friendship as they...

Why was the act of arson that destroyed the first Goetheanum so devastatingly successful in its malicious intent? What was the nature of the poisoning that Rudolf Steiner suffered in 1923? What was the significance of Steiner's encounter with an unknown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590514832Author Sarah BakewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Rarely has a writer and thinker of the stature of Ayn Rand afforded us access to her most intimate thoughts and feelings. From Journals of Ayn Rand, we gain an invaluable new understanding and appreciation of the woman, the artist, and the philosopher,...

Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most important, and complex, French thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, the multi-faceted nature of Lyotard's work has often been obscured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802863652Author Oliva BlanchetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 820Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

After his intellectual biography of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest modern admirers: The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's influence on post-war philosophical...

"Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen's and Cassirer's only full-scale study of Kant's philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer's philosophy was based on Kant's, and accordingly this book is Cassirer's explicit coming to...