Ren Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase I think, therefore I am. But though he is remembered most......more
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The Danish philosopher, theologian, and author S ren Kierkegaard is widely considered to be one of the most important an......more
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... L a n du comte Xavier et l un des plus loquents crivains de notre litt rature, le comte Joseph-Marie de Maistre, naq......more
Winner of the Ben Franklin Book Award for Autobiography & Memoir and the National Indie Excellence Sponsorship Prize fro......more
Susan Shumsky is a successful author in the New Age/Spirituality field, writing books on meditation, intuition, prayer, ......more
Susan Shumsky is a successful author in the New Age/Spirituality field, writing books on meditation, intuition, prayer, ......more
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Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A tiny, fastidious......more
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The following papers, with the exception of Mr. Shapley’s, contain the substance of addresses given at Jacob Sleeper Hal......more
In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massa......more
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A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math ......more
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The texts of Diogenes of Oinoanda (2nd century AD) who invited his readers to an Epicurean life is the largest ancient i......more
The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely a......more
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"Try to become one with the world--that will be the best and most important ’program.’ It is something that cannot be co......more
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Feeling as though she s stuck in a life that has her in a constant revolving door, Linda decides she has to find a bette......more
"Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative." --Guardian "An engaging and accessible history." --New York Review......more
"Try to become one with the world--that will be the best and most important ’program.’ It is something that cannot be co......more
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of th......more
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This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view--- and Jewish too p......more
Never before has a book like this one delved into the spiritual odyssey of cultural icon Bob Dylan. Tracking an American......more
The first biography of Kierkegaard’s literary muse and one-time fiancée, from the author of the definitive biography of ......more
Beyond Meetings with Remarkable Men into the truth behind the self-crafted mythology of Gurdjieff s life - Reveals evide......more
Volume 2 of Josef Pieper s three-part autobiography is here presented for the first time in English translation. The vol......more
Volume 2 of Josef Pieper s three-part autobiography is here presented for the first time in English translation. The vol......more
Few people have had as many influences on as many different fields as true Renaissance man Blaise Pascal. At once a math......more
Basing his work on extensive published and unpublished materials, Peter Marshall has written a comprehensive study of th......more
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Bestselling author A. C. Grayling explains how--fueled by original and unorthodox thinking, war, and technological inven......more
For over a century, the Danish thinker S ren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discu......more
A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth century Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived d......more
A Treatise of Human Nature is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor o......more
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...Vanini est bien au-dessous de Bruno et de Campanella. Il n a le s rieux de l un ni de l autre, ni la vaste imaginatio......more
Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem--the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history......more
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Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today s int......more
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Et ce Locke en un mot dont la main courageuse A de la v rit pos la borne heureuse. Voltaire parlait ainsi, et on l en cr......more
George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else wr......more
Claudio Naranjo has become a global touchstone in the integration of Western psychology and Eastern spiritualism. The in......more
Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals, writers, ......more
A new philosophy system emerged in late December 1995 and was published in January 1996. In this book I briefly give my ......more
This new biography provides a rich and varied insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer, an individu......more
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John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was to a very large extent a product of an experiment of his father - a child genius, a troub......more
Very few twenty-century scientists made as a lasting influence on modern society as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. P......more
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What do some of the most brilliant, most gifted, and most original thinkers of the world say about the purpose of human ......more
Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century’s most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His wr......more
This is the first biography to see William Robertson as both a man and an intellectual figure at the centre of the Scott......more
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Among the classics of the history of philosophy, the Scienza nuova (New Science) by Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was la......more
Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues......more