Philosophers

As a senior journalist with Time magazine, David Aikman witnessed some of the most important world events and interviewed many of the prominent global power figures of his time. In this moving volume, Aikman profiles six of these figures: Billy Graham,...

Over thirty years after his death in 1983, Paul de Man, a hugely charismatic intellectual who created with deconstruction an ideology so pervasive that it threatened to topple the very foundations of literature, remains a haunting and still largely...

From quantum mechanics to complex biological systems, science's quest for explanatory certainty has ceded to probabilistic description. Uncertainty; thus, is constitutive of depictions of reality. This is an inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and...

Gershom Scholem (1897 1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314056Author Josef PieperFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's Press

The first modern biography of William Robertson, a key figure of the Scottish EnlightenmentA prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, William Robertson differed from his contemporaries, such as Voltaire, Hume and Gibbon, because he used the...

This book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69) - arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time - and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly...

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...

'John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order' is a concise and detailed analysis of one of the foremost political philosophers of our time that demonstrates the importance of Rawls's work for contemporary debates regarding international relations, world...

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...

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...

‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.’ – Bertrand Russell, Portraits from MemoryPortraits from Memory is one of Bertrand...

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...

For more than two thousand years, Confucius (551-479 B.C.) has been a fundamental part of China's history. His influence as a moral thinker remains powerful to this day. Yet despite his fame and the perennial interest in his life and teachings, Confucius...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587315756Author Josef PieperFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 499g

This book explores the life and work of Omar Khayyam as a provocateur of peace. While Khayyam is known for his poetry, he was foremost a prominent mathematician who looked at the world from a unique perspective. Using the transformative power of...

This book explores the life and work of Omar Khayyam as a provocateur of peace. While Khayyam is known for his poetry, he was foremost a prominent mathematician who looked at the world from a unique perspective. Using the transformative power of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060825195Author Simone De BeauvoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561845620Author Dr Israel RegardieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New Falcon Publications,U.S.Publisher New Falcon Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060933883Author Michael WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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...

The work of Sigmund Freud, one of the most important thinkers of the past two hundred years, redefined the fields of neurology and psychotherapy and the way we view the human mind. Most strands of the psychoanalytic discipline can even today be traced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879141Author Eric MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621481935Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Rudolf Steiner PressPublisher Rudolf Steiner PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528003Author Professor of Politics Maurizio ViroliFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590517765Author George ProchnikFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855840935Author Johannes HemlebenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Rudolf Steiner PressPublisher Rudolf Steiner Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374176426Author Adam ShatzFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268204037Author Kenneth M SayreFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems. Insisting on the inseparability of ontology, ethics and politics, the essays and interview in this volume offer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913123379Author Julia WendellFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Galileo PressPublisher Galileo PressWeight(grams) 448g

An influential thinker's fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad The call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman...

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...

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber,...

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...

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670097036Author Gautam ChikermaneFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

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...