Philosophers

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

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...

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...

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...

Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from...

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 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...

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,...

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...

Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic...

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)...

Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time “An elegant, relevant biography of a vital thinker.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Baruch...

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thoughtDescribed by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,”...

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge'Fascinating' Carlo Rovelli'Remarkable... Exciting, provocative, and illuminating' John Banville,...

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212912Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the Enlightenment to Freud, from science to socialism, from...

As heard on Radio 4's Free ThinkingHenri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609884383Author Elizabeth Clare ProphetFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Summit University Press,U.S.Publisher Summit University Press,U.S...