Philosophers category: 1861 books

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat....

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated...

The genius, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics, with simple equipment barely worth Rs. 300. He was the first Asian scientist to win the Nobel Prize. He was a man of boundless curiosity and a lively sense of humor. His spirit of enquiry and devotion to science laid the foundations for scientific research in India. And he won honor as a scientist and affection as a teacher and a man.

La storia di Vico inizia con un botto: nato a Napoli nel 1668, in un buio mezzanino di San Biagio dei Librai in mezzo al fracasso dei carri e delle voci della popolarissima Spaccanapoli, cadde da una scala, batté la testa sul selciato e il cerusico, chiamato d’urgenza, sentenziò solennemente che...

From the 1920s to the 1980s Oakeshott filled dozens of notebooks with his private reflections, both personal and intellectual. Their contents range from aphorisms to miniature essays, forming a unique record of his intellectual trajectory over his entire career. This volume makes them accessible in print...

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against...

Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this...

Esta es la historia de dos de los más importantes y controversiales escritores y pensadores del Siglo XX. Su relación sentimental no puede equipararse a ninguna otra ordinaria en la sociedad: fueron amantes y amigos, no fueron novios y mucho menos esposos, siempre parecían estar por encima de toda...

A young mans journey and phoenix like transformation from a life of barbaric, ignorance into the infinite blissful sea of the light of spirituality in India,Nepal and Tibet.An inner and outward journey of revelation, wonder and endless discovery, peeled back layer after endless layer like a spiritual onionskin.

A personal and theoretical look at “Liber Primus,” the first of the collection of books written by psychologist Carl Jung that were collectively entitled “The Red Book.” Unpublished until October of 2009, “The Red Book” is considered by many, including Jung himself, to be the foundation...

This version of Amiel's Journal by MGVT provides a foreword by the editor in chief Mark Guy Valerius Tyson The Journal of Henri Amiel is a profound book of self analysis and thoughtful expression. In this book you will find new ideas of love and Christianity, a new apprecitation for life and...

Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of his darker poems, and received the following reply: "When that poem was written, two people knew what it meant--God and Robert Browning. And now God only knows what it means.