Philosophers

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861518002Author Jim EmertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

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Focusing as much on Marx's private life as on his public persona and work, this classic biography looks into detail at his relationship with his mother and father, wife and friends, and includes generous quotations from a wide range of correspondence in...

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

Descartes is one of the greatest of all thinkers. Modern philosophy is generally taken to begin with him. His unique contribution to Western thought covers not only philosophy but also science and mathematics; his studies in mechanics and optics have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993327261Author Vilem FlusserFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Metaflux PublishingPublisher Metaflux PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In this...

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,...

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486850702Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry, Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by Weil's niece is strong-willed and incisive and as close as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679757924Author David MaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621481164Author T. H. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

The first comprehensive history of John Venn's life and work. John Venn (1834-1923) is remembered today as the inventor of the famous Venn diagram. The postmortem fame of the diagram has until now eclipsed Venn's own status as one of the most...

Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through...

Encounters with Kierkegaard is a collection of every known eyewitness account of the great Danish thinker. Through many sharp observations of family members, friends and acquaintances, supporters and opponents, the life story of this elusive and...

One of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century, Paul Ricoeur has influenced a generation of thinkers. In this, the first philosophically informed biography of Ricoeur, student, colleague, and confidant Charles E. Reagan provides an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967326566Author Frank MarreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Tripod PressPublisher Tripod PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805092486Author Tristram HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550173338Author Laura B BertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 220g

Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for...

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)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528003Author Professor of Politics Maurizio ViroliFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590514832Author Sarah BakewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229736Author Lyndsey StonebridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HogarthPublisher HogarthWeight(grams) 516g

How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls "the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Levy," easily the best-known "thinker" under sixty in France? "It would," he continues, "be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of...

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,...

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...

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)...

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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...

The first comprehensive introduction to cover the entire span of Kierkegaard's authorship. Explores how the two strands of his writing-religious discourses and pseudonymous literary creations-influenced each otherAccompanies the reader chronologically...

The work of Sigmund Freud, one of the most important thinkers of the past two hundred years, redefined the fields of neurology and psychotherapy and the way we view the human mind. Most strands of the psychoanalytic discipline can even today be traced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541607Author Thomas StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g

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...

On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as "one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers." Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a...