A poet’s lost biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century--as ......more

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One of the most controversial philosophers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche was an intellectual prodigy who dared to cha......more

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly ......more

Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. These individuals share the venerable title ......more

The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and tran......more

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From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philoso......more

A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome. In......more

The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson. Chapel Perilou......more

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice "Charming and brilliant." --Times Literary Supplement "Provocative, stimula......more

This handsome gift edition presents Friedrich Nietzsche’s extraordinary work, Ecce Homo, featuring a luxurious, gold-emb......more

This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view--- and Jewish too p......more

Peter " Pete" Maloff was born in Saskatchewan in 1900, the year after the first Doukhobors, including his parents, immig......more

An entertaining guide to history’s most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauv......more

A biography of the influential teacher of the Fourth Way - Traces the life of Maurice Nicoll, who left a successful care......more

First published in 1961, The Political Philosophy of Jawaharlal Nehru is an attempt to coordinate Jawaharlal Nehru’s ide......more

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"A gripping exploration of some of society’s biggest contradictions.... [Natality] is a fascinating read." --Dana Suskin......more

When a military coup in Ghana leads to the abrupt closure of Lally Pia’s medical school, she is left stranded there, tho......more

Situated at the intersection of film and media studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy, The Traces of Jacqu......more

This autobiography offers a tale of the joys and hardships of simple living in Chinese and American societies....more

Catching an Elusive Bird is a biography of the famous Ukrainian philosopher and theologian Hryhorii (Gregorius) Skovorod......more

An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emper......more

Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, a......more

This book is the third and final chapter of the power plant story. It is the result of a collision between avarice and c......more

During task-switching, if we occasionally encounter stimuli that cue more than one task (i.e. bivalent stimuli), respons......more

"Celebrate the beauty and power of worship with ""In Worship of God: Words of Praise to the Lord,"" a magnificent collec......more

Uncover the tumultuous journey of St. Augustine’s youthful years with "Augustine’s Confessions: A Sinful Youth". In this......more

Uncover the tumultuous journey of St. Augustine’s youthful years with "Augustine’s Confessions: A Sinful Youth". In this......more

The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ev......more

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He got sober, I got broken It would be easy to say Where the Shadows Dance is a memoir about a marriage--but marriage is......more

"For fifteen years, after his first visit to the country in1876, Nietzsche was repeatedly and irresistibly drawn back to......more

A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now availab......more

Self Study is a genre-bending work of autophilosophy. It opens a rare, rear window into the schizoid position of self-su......more

The Bentham Brothers and Russia chronicles the brothers’ involvement with the Russian Empire, when Jeremy focused his le......more

"African Meditations is a unique contemporary portrait of a young philosopher and creative writer as he seeks to establi......more

Rabindranath Tagore is famous for his philosophy based on Upanishads, which were written in about 1000 B.C. to 300 B.C. ......more

A new version of Plato’s four-part discourse extolling Socrates’ brilliance. Plato’s account of Socrates’ trial and exec......more

A new version of Plato’s four-part discourse extolling Socrates’ brilliance. Plato’s account of Socrates’ trial and exec......more

A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that......more

A 2022 Economist Best Book of the Year. The definitive account of the distinguished economist’s formative years. Few twe......more

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In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilizations that flourished more than 9,000 years bef......more

What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? Is goo......more

The author of How to Be a Stoic asks what might be philosophy’s ultimate question: can we learn to be better people? Is ......more

"There are heroes among us, and Dr. Calvin Sun is one of them. Read this book." -Lisa Ling, journalist The Monsoon Diari......more

British economist, ethical theorist, and civil servant John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was one of the most influential Englis......more

This compelling poetry collection presents Hypatia of Alexandria (355?415 CE) the Egyptian Neoplatonic philosopher, astr......more

Mark Akenside (1721-1770) was a medical doctor and literary man whose influence on the history of ideas was profound. Th......more

Sri Aurobindo dedicated his life to the transformation of humanity. His journey saw him traverse many paths, including t......more

A work that combines biography and pyschogeography to trace Aleister Crowley’s life in London. "I dreamed I was paying a......more

This biography of French philosopher Jacques Maritain and his wife Raïssa offers a fascinating story of perhaps the most......more

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In this tell-all autobiography, Sri M writes about his fascinating journey as a young man from the southern coast of Ind......more

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As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the  unbreakable links  between  our bodies an......more

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New Yorker • Best Books of 2022 Literary Hub • Most Anticipated Books of 2022 Written in code under constant threat......more

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"An exhilarating account of a remarkable historical moment, in which characters known to many of us as immutable icons a......more

The author chronicles the dazzling and the harrowing events of his childhood charged with harrowing absurdities from the......more

The author chronicles the dazzling and the harrowing events of his childhood charged with harrowing absurdities from the......more

The History of Philosophy, from the earliest times to the beginning of the present century: drawn up from Brucker’s hist......more

This volume comprises Erasmus’ correspondence during the final two years of his life, June 1534-August 1536. In the publ......more

In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of ’an un......more

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In his first published work for the public, former monk, Rajan Shankara, offers the reader a dynamic how-to for becoming......more

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