Philosophers category: 1861 books

Isaiah Berlin. Una biografía es una de esas raras biografías en las que la fuerza del personaje está por encima de su propia obra. Isaiah Berlin nunca quiso escribir su autobiografía -«No me considero un tema de reflexión lo suficientemente importante o interesante»-, dijo en una ocasión....

BÜYÜK SORULAR dizisi okurun gündemine tarih boyunca insanların aklını kurcalamış temel felsefi ve bilimsel sorunları taşıyor. Bu sorulara en büyük düşünürlerin verdiği cevapları sunuyor. Büyük Sorular: Felsefe başlığında Simon Blackburn kendimizi ve içinde yaşadığımız...

In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And...

In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'”. This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial...

Erasmo de Rotterdam es un libro biográfico del escritor austríaco Stefan Zweig. Es la historia de Geert Geertsen (latinizado como Desiderius Erasmus Rotterodamus; Róterdam, 28 de octubre de 1466 -Basilea, 12 de julio de 1536), conocido en español como Erasmo de Róterdam o Erasmo de Rotterdam,...

Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau,a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire,...

Friedrich Nietzsche is een van de belangrijkste filosofen, en zijn ideeën over de übermensch, de wil tot macht en de slavenmoraal hebben alle regionen van de cultuur doordrongen. Maar wat weten de meeste mensen echt over Nietzsche, behalve de snor, de dreigende blik en een vage associatie met nihilisme...

Polibio (Megalópolis, Grecia. n. 200 a. C. - 118 a. C.), fue un historiador griego. Es considerado uno de los historiadores más importantes, debido a que fue el primero en escribir una historia universal con su libro Historia Universal bajo la República Romana. Su propósito...

**NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast** Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch,...

George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else “writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing,” while the New York Times says of his works that “the...

Platon, hiç kuşku yok ki düşünce tarihinin en önemli ve etkili filozoflarından biridir. Felsefenin kurumsallaşmasına ve felsefede yazılı geleneğin oluşmasına katkıda bulunmuş, iki dünyalı metafiziğiyle bütün bir Ortaçağ düşüncesini belirleyecek olan idealist felsefe geleneğinin...

The autobiography of one of the most influential people of the modern age. This was taken from writings and letters that Darwin wrote for his family, edited by his son Francis Darwin, and published posthumously.

Discover a new understanding of Kierkegaard’s thought and his life, a story filled with romance, betrayal, humor, and riots. Kierkegaard, like Einstein and Freud, is one of those geniuses whose ideas permeate the culture and shape our world even when relatively few people have read their...

The first book on Nietzsche ever to appear in English, this examination by legendary journalist H. L. Mencken is still one of the most enlightening. Mencken wrote this book while still in his 20s, but his penchant for thoroughness was evident even at that young age—in preparation for writing this...