Philosophers category: 1861 books

Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature. It is...

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’ In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work...

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Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the...

The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the twentieth century's most influential economist. His ideas inspired Franklin D. Roosevelt to launch the New Deal and instructed Western nations on how to ward off revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment, and social dissolution. Keynes was...

Découvrez la formidable existence de l'humaniste Jean Pic de la MirandoleLa biographie romancée de Catherine d’Oultremont se déroule dans le respect scrupuleux des grandes étapes de ce que fut la vie de Jean Pic de la Mirandole : sa quête incessante du savoir qui va le conduire dans toutes les...

Door de eeuwen heen hebben talloze vrouwen zich verdiept in een veel-heid aan filosofische thema’s, maar vaak zijn deze denkers onzichtbaar gebleven. Van de 17e-eeuwse filosofe Anna Maria van Schurman zullen sommigen wel hebben gehoord, maar wie kent haar tijdgenote Anne Conway? Uit de 20e eeuw...

Les Frères Karamazov (Intégral, les 10 Livres) - Fédor Dostoïevski   Ce livre comprend l'édition complète, les 10 volumes.   Il comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique....

Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, humorous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, the rise of Nazism and Prohibition, to more perennial themes...

En France, disait un jour Wagner, au cours d’un entretien familier, trois sortes de personnes s’occupent de moi : celles qui connaissent ma musique, et qui sont rares ; celles qui ne la connaissent pas et qui l’aiment ; et celles qui la détestent sans la connaître. Le génial...

L’inferno siamo noi. Sembra essere questo il giudizio sull’uomo mai pronunciato da un Camus ormai stanco e disilluso. Pensatore oggi evocato per il suo appello a concetti come limite e misura, antidoti allo smarrimento dell’assurdo, Camus fu anche uomo dilaniato dall’impossibilità di coniugare...

Un des plus grands succès de l'histoire des religions. Mis à l'index lors de sa parution, ce livre est devenu un classique. Renan fut tout sauf un tiède. Dans L'Histoire des origines du christianisme, sa pensée s'aiguise autour des conditions d'émergence...