Philosophers

Genevieve Rodis-Lewis is uniquely qualified to celebrate Rene Descartes. This major intellectual biography illuminates the personal and historical events of Descartes's life, from his birth and early years in France to his death in Sweden, his burial,...

Alexander Herzen-philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century-was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and...

Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional...

Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. But East West tensions began to strain their friendship as they...

Revealing and enlightening, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin gives a close-up view of one of the foremost thinkers of our time An interview with the noted British philosopher and historian of ideas, conducted by the Iranian philosopher Jahanbegloo, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154197Author Mike SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

After his intellectual biography of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest modern admirers: The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's influence on post-war philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909771192Author Jonathan ClementsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Albert Bridge BooksPublisher Albert Bridge BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971046948Author Dr. Paul A. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Fraternity of the Hidden LightPublisher Fraternity of the Hidden...

Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart was born in Yorkshire in 1907 to second generation Jewish immigrants. Having won a scholarship to Oxford University, he went on to become the most famous legal philosopher of the twentieth century. From 1932-40 H.L.A Hart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482062Author Christoph LindenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Rudolf Steiner PressPublisher Rudolf Steiner PressWeight(grams)...

Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most important, and complex, French thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, the multi-faceted nature of Lyotard's work has often been obscured...

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956735065Author Pino DeufemiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Pino DeufemiaPublisher Pino DeufemiaWeight(grams) 152g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199926640Author Emily WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 164mm * 24mm

Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days...

Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel...

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. Stephen...

Why was the act of arson that destroyed the first Goetheanum so devastatingly successful in its malicious intent? What was the nature of the poisoning that Rudolf Steiner suffered in 1923? What was the significance of Steiner's encounter with an unknown...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626814Author Susan MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

"Here is the first Kant-biography in English since Paulsen's and Cassirer's only full-scale study of Kant's philosophy. On a very deep level, all of Cassirer's philosophy was based on Kant's, and accordingly this book is Cassirer's explicit coming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997224047Author Matt BacakFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Infosoft360Publisher Infosoft360Weight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 12mm

The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse and one-time fiancee, from the author of the definitive biography of the philosopher Kierkegaard's Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the literary inspiration and one-time fiancee of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220829Author Edith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 141mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061768927Author Ross KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this...

Two high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War years Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal...

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 9781629633862Author Peter MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530789Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams)...

Decades after his death, Albert Camus (1913-60) is still regarded as one of the most influential and fascinating intellectuals of the twentieth century. This biography by Stephen Eric Bronner explores the connections between his literary work, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986058608Author Katheen B. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Thinking Women BooksPublisher Thinking Women BooksWeight(grams) 491g

"Dreams are as black as death." -Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared in his lifetime. Dream Notes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439210307Author Dorine TolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm)...

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am." But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of his...

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578365473Author Eliezer SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Raven Recording, IncPublisher Raven Recording, IncWeight(grams) 590g