Philosophers category: 1861 books
by Emil Cioran
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Acest titlu este in limba romana! -- Vreme de cincisprezece ani (19571972), Cioran a umplut treizeci şi patru de caiete cu însemnări. Ele au fost găsite după moartea autorului de Simone Boué, prietena sa de o viaţă, şi au fost publicate, în 1997, la Gallimard. Nu avem de-a face cu un jurnal...
Stories of an alchemist
The extraordinary childhood years of the founder of Damanhur in 33 tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
These stories are evidently, all together, a Book of Alchemy that I hope is also a bit amusing: a new way to teach, perhaps, in life. In the manifestation of natural powers, in the excesses during their use during the formation and growth of everyone, many forces, subtle and not, show up suddenly...
by Marcus Aurelius
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Wisdom from one of the greatest philosophical minds in all of Roman history
Divided into twelve books, these meditations chronicle Aurelius’s personal quest for self-improvement. This enduring text from one of history’s greatest warriors and leaders has been compared to St. Augustine’s...
by Henry David Thoreau, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This edition of Walden is specially formatted with illustrations and a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents.Henry David Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Mr. Thoreau was an author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, transcendentalist, and philosopher....
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America
It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance...
Socrates
A Man for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy.
Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very last moment alive, Socrates fully embodied his philosophy in thought and deed. It...
How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the...
The Hemlock Cup
Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about...
Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original....
The Albert Einstein Collection Volume One
Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Three captivating volumes reveal how Einstein viewed both the physical universe and the everyday world in which he lived.
A century after his theory of general relativity shook the foundations of the scientific world, Albert Einstein’s name is still synonymous with genius. This collection...
Confucius
A Throneless King
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
An illuminating portrait of Confucius’s life and philosophical teachings
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Confucius is one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a man whose philosophies have shaped world culture. Often overlooked outside his native country, Confucius himself was a fascinating...
by G. I. Gurdjieff
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1991
Meetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff’s autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive “read” in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff’s unique perspective on...
William James
In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself.
Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant...
Descartes's Secret Notebook
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space...