History Criticism category: 15616 books
Zero
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. "Zero is really something"-Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book.
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations...
by John Lord
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
It is not easy to present the life and labors of "The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind." So Pope sums up the character of the great Lord Bacon, as he is generally but improperly called; and this verdict, in the main, has been confirmed by Lords Macaulay and Campbell, who seem to delight...
by Jan Westerhoff
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. It is a question that, due to such films as The Matrix, has also made its way into popular culture. But it is not just a question philosophers ask. It is also asked by scientists when they investigate...
by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
This volume is truly and doubly a “Treasury.” With its easy to read structure of brief entries in alphabetic order, it is a treasure house of observations on life and death, civilization and savagery, the universe and beyond—the Great Topics which have challenged man’s thought, whether in...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Those familiar with "The Treatise of the Three Impostors" recognize it as an Enlightenment-era indictment against the foundations of three major religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. That's only half the story. Published anonymously and attributed to numerous dates, places of origin,...
by Wes Nisker
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover the madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers in the abridged, better-than-ever version of our best-selling cult classic. THE ESSENTIAL CRAZY WISDOM delivers the most significant, most lunatic, and most...
Tommaso Campanella
The Book and the Body of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period. His philosophical project centred upon the idea of reconciling Renaissance philosophy with...
The Philosophy of Voltaire - Collected Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato's Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable…
From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This unique collection of Voltaire's most renowned philosophical books has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks...
by Henry Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
The romantic growth and imaginative shaping of chivalric love having been followed in the fortunes of its great exemplars, Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, Parzival, a different illustration of mediaeval passion may be had by turning from these creations of literature to an actual woman, whose...
Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Translated with introduction and commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
G. W. F. Hegel's first masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit, is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this central work to the modern reader in an intelligible and accurate new translation....
by Håvard Løkke
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire notions of them? Should we rely on arguments? How do we come to make so many mistakes?
The author...
Dialogue
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Partez à la découverte du dialogue avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
L'entrée en dialogue paraît d'autant plus désirable que le partenaire est plus différent ou plus lointain. Le dialogue répond à une préoccupation éthique – il serait l'antiviolence par excellence – et à un...
by Vladimir Antonov
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Since the very beginning of the existence of humankind on the Earth, God has been teaching people what He wants them to be, what is the meaning of human life, and how one can realize it. Let us look at what He has been teaching from the time of Atlantis — up to our days. We may see that His Teachings...
Subjectivity
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism...