Philosophers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761874300Author Richard a JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America

In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies at the Harvard Medical School. When he learned that one of his most esteemed professors, Louis Agassiz, then director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology, was preparing...

In the five hundred years since he wrote The Prince, Machiavelli's name has been linked to tyranny and the doctrine that "the ends justify the means." But that is not what he stood for. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner takes us back to Renaissance...

This biography of French philosopher Jacques Maritain and his wife Raissa offers a fascinating story of perhaps the most influential French theologian of the twentieth century. This award-winning book, written by Jean-Luc Barre at the request of the...

Presenting forty-four essays, Freedom Fighter is L. Ron Hubbard s long and unblinking look at precisely what plagues 21st century Earth the whys, wherefores, and what we can do about it. Included is Mr. Hubbard s incisive essay, Strong Voices in the Land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061710322Author Robert SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

In this biography of the noted French philosopher and theologian Jean Gerson, the first since 1929, Brian Patrick McGuire presents a compelling portrait of Gerson as a voice of reason and Christian humanism during a time of great intellectual and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480884Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran's notorious Evin prison in 2006. A petition against his imprisonment was...

The rich and fascinating life of Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) has been reconstructed by Professor Binion on a vast documentary basis, and his findings contradict all earlier versions of her life. Frau Lou was a woman of prodigious intellect, a woman of...

During years of close friendship, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Paul Ree (1849-1901) shared ideas and developed a new and original approach to philosophy and ethics. The course of their partnership, from its origins in shared hopes to its ending in...

During years of close friendship, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Paul Ree (1849-1901) shared ideas and developed a new and original approach to philosophy and ethics. The course of their partnership, from its origins in shared hopes to its ending in...

Your favourite occupation? Pondering and musing. Your idea of happiness? Pondering and musing. Your most extreme aversion? Pedantry and a sense of order. Of what are you afraid? Punctuality. The above quotations are extracted from a questionnaire filled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482192Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835608367Author H. P. BlavatskyFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607810Author Aryel SanatFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 503g

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 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...

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 9781590517765Author George ProchnikFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC