Philosophers

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...

'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...

‘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...

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...

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 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 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

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...

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 *...

For Rousseau, "consecrating one's life to the truth" (his personal credo) meant publicly taking responsibility for what one published and only publishing what would be of public benefit. Christopher Kelly argues that this commitment is central to...

An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx. In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions-studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in...

The product of many years of reflection on phenomenology, this book is a comprehensive and creative introduction to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Natanson uses Husserl's later work as a clue to the meaning of his entire intellectual career, showing...

Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame recounts the fascinating history of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy, chronicling the challenges, difficulties, and tensions that accompanied its transition from an obscure outpost of...

Theodore Dreiser staked his reputation on fearless expression in his fiction, but he never was more outspoken than when writing about American politics, which he did prolifically. Although he is remembered primarily as a novelist, the majority of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314049Author Josef PieperFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's Press

This comprehensive volume captures one of the twentieth century's greatest philosopher's lifelong battle with the forces of injustice, ignorance, and cruelty - a crusade not always welcomed by his own government, which twice imprisoned him. Russell used...

This is the first biography to see William Robertson as both a man and a central Enlightenment figure. Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, and foregrounding Robertson's religious outlook, Jeffrey R. Smitten gives us offers a more...

After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062230577Author Michael PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This book is the first to tell in detail the story of the passionate and secret love affair between two of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Drawing on their previously unknown correspondence,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561845484Author 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 9780987596116Author C V WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Sydney School of Arts and HumanitiesPublisher Sydney School of Arts and...

In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was...

With extraordinary concision and clarity, A. J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Bertrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy. "Ayer considers Russell to be, except possibly for Wittgenstein, the most...

A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African...

German political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she penned her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism,...

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,...

A major, groundbreaking biography that traces the intellectual development of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century Since political theorist Leo Strauss's death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743246187Author Annping ChinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

De Alvarez discovers a neglected argument in Machiavelli's masterpiece that encompasses much more than the education of a prince for the salvation of Italy. Building on a wealth of insight, he shows how Machiavelli, the "first political philosopher to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999255503Author Adrian C SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Integra PressPublisher Integra PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age and as a personality of great magnetism and power. Not all who recognize his importance admire him or approve of it; his life and work are...