Philosophers

Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or...

Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology...

Shortlisted for the 2005 British Academy Book prize, Nicola Lacey's entrancing biography recounts the life of H.L.A. Hart, the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the twentieth century. Following Hart's life from modest origins as the son of Jewish tailor...

Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world...

Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle...

Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880106009Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 680g

In November 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright announced the death of "the greatest man in the world," yet few knew who he was talking about. Enigmatic, misunderstood, declared a charlatan, and recently dubbed "the Rasputin who inspired Mary Poppins,"...

One of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, but this semi-mythical Greek sage has more to offer than formulas. He is said to have discovered the numerical nature of the basic consonances and transposed the musical...

'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...

In this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most famous texts, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism...

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...

Doctor, militant, political essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist: Frantz Fanon represented a new model of engaged intellectual who sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century thought, society and culture and move beyond the ideology...

The dramatic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume, in the context of their grand intellectual quest to conquer the limits of human understanding. The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625644299Author Jean Sj DanielouFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482222Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035985Author Garry WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

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...

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...

Explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923 69) arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time A social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century ...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new exploration of Karl Marx's life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought"A perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments of the man."-Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal...

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)...

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830833771Author Preston JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 223gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420395Author Andrew S. CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

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...

"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Soren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction...

A leading social theorist analyzes how and why Niebuhr's revival has taken place, ultimately arguing for his political and moral relevance today Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important...

In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Charming and brilliant.” —Times Literary Supplement “Provocative, stimulating, wise―the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read.”―Tom Holland “Bradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit,...

Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475377Author Antonio NegriFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Decadence in philosophy is truths dedicated to the intensification of thought. For decadents the best truths don't describe experience accurately, they incite the most consequent thinking. This doesn't imply wanting truths that are wrong. But, for...

Edward de Bono, polymath, writer, and philosopher, spent his life showing people how to use their brains creatively, to disrupt traditional ideas and ways of doing things. He mixed socially with powerful people, but he never stopped challenging their...

Based on a rich collection of primary and secondary sources, Leonid Ushkalov presents his biography of the famous Ukrainian philosopher and theologian Hryhorii (Gregorius) Skovoroda (1722–1794). However, this book is not only a biography of a prominent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541914Author Eugenio ColorniFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 331g

During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word...

The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil analyzes the core work of Simone Weil and her views on the nature of the human condition, humanity's relationship with God, and the objective state of our world. David Pollard argues that though much of Weil's work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310520887Author Stephen BackhouseFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 412gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 148mm * 31mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442631250Author Leonard E DoucetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 331g