Philosophers category: 1861 books

Biographia Literaria, or in full Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of MY LITERARY LIFE and OPINIONS, is anautobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which he published in 1817, in two volumes. The work is long and seemingly loosely structured, and although...

Con questo lavoro ci si propone di osservare un aspetto alquanto peculiare della filosofia di uno fra i massimi esponenti dell’Esistenzialismo tedesco. L’aspetto riguarda la religiosità filosofica, il problema del bene e del male

American Mystic is dedicated to all those seeking true and lasting happiness. Ramana's story is gripping, frankly told, providing a fascinating glimpse into American culture and history beginning in the Great Depression and ending in the new millennium. His struggles, adventures and inner search, culminated...

Extrait : "Me voici donc seul sur la terre, n'ayant plus de frère, de prochain, d'ami, de société que moi-même. Le plus sociable et le plus aimant des humains en a été proscrit par un accord unanime. Ils ont cherché, dans les raffinements de leur haine, quel tourment pouvait être le plus...

Originally published in 1973, this volume documents Bertrand Russell’s travels in America covering the period 1896-1945. It is presented in two halves with the first a biographical account of Russell’s involvement with the United States, with special reference to the seven visits he made there...

Un ermite vivait dans la forêt, sans avoir peur des bêtes fauves. L’ermite et les bêtes fauves  conversaient ensemble et ils se comprenaient. Un jour, l’ermite s’était étendu sous un arbre ; là s’étaient aussi réunis, pour passer la...

Lowell Bennion, Sterling McMurrin, and Obert Tanner were colleagues whose lives often intertwined. All professors at the University of Utah, these three scholars addressed issues and events of their time; each influenced the thought and culture of Mormonism, helping to institute a period of intellectual...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literaryand aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. In addition, there are numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him extant.

LAO TSEU OU LA VOIE DU DRAGON La naissance de Lao-Tseu fut annoncée par une comète. Ce petit homme aux traits de vieillard, archiviste à la cour impériale, reconnut la vanité de la science. Mais où trouver la véritable sagesse ? Dans la presse « Une petite merveille pour...

After his epochal speeches at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago in 1893, Swami Vivekananda spent more than three years in the United States and Europe sowing the seeds of Vedanta through illuminating his talks. These talks have come down to us through Sarah Ellen Waldo and J. J. Goodwin. Ellen,...

The 20th Century was the age of the public intellectual and foremost amongst the thinkers and writers who helped interpret the century was George Orwell. His best known works, Animal Farm and 1984 have become the means by which most of humanity in the decades since his death have come to explore the...

Hi. I am Vee. Well thats what my friends call me. My name is Vinayak Patil. This is story of an autistic and dyslexic kid who tries to solve problems front of him in an unthinkable way.

LA FOLLE JOURNÉE DU PROFESSEUR KANT Que puis-je connaître ? Que dois-je faire ? Que m’est-il permis d’espérer ? À Königsberg, le sévère professeur Kant répondit à ces questions, et à quelques autres, au cours d’une journée si folle qu’il devait en manquer sa promenade... Dans...

Cette histoire retrace une trajectoire assez surréaliste d'un beurbère !!!