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Walden
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Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his ...
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There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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Antony Flew, Roy Abraham Varghese
A wave of modern atheists have taken center stage and brought the long-standing debate about the existence of God back into the headlines. Spearheaded by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, this 'new atheism' has found a powerful place in today's culture wars. Although this movement has been billed as 'new,' the foundation of ...
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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
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Robert D Richardson
Prize-winning biographer Richardson has written the definitive work on the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion--and on modernism itself.
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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
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David Edmonds, John Eidinow
On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what really went on in that room.
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Confessions
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the ...
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The German Ideology
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Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, "The German Ideology", a text of key importance for students.
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Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell, Earl
Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. An influential figure of the 20th century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and was imprisoned several times as a result of his pacifism. His views on religion, education, sex, politics ...
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Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
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Osho
This collection of writings by the popular spiritual leader Osho--formerly known as Rajneesh--reflects his joyous and free-spirited approach to sexuality, his humor, and his unique approach to meditation.
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The Book of Dead Philosophers
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Simon Critchley
Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley pulls readers in with quirky stories of how philosophers died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good death' means and how to live with the knowledge of death and free from what he calls 'delusions and sophistries'. ...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
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Ray Monk
Born in 1889, Wittgenstein grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Vienna, and here emerged an all-consuming preoccupation with spiritual, ethical and cultural questions. His development as a philosopher began in 1922 when he became a student of Bertrand Russell at Cambridge. The work which he started then culminated in "Tractatus Logico ...
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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Maria Dzielska, F Lyra (Translator)
Hypatia - mathematician, Neoplatonist and renowned beauty - was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. This volume searches behind the legend to provide a new perspective on Hypatia's life and death. Historians and poets, Victorian novelists and contemporary feminists have seen Hypatia as a symbol - of the waning of ...
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Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
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Rudiger Safranski, Rdiger Safranski, Ra1/4diger Safranski
Safranski recounts the life of Martin Heidegger, both as a profound modern thinker and a Nazi spokesman. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Spinoza: A Life
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Steven M Nadler
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This is the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the story of Spinoza's life, the book takes the reader right into the ...
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Opening the Dragon Gate Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard the Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard
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Chen Kaiguo, Zheng Shunchao, Thomas F Cleary, PH.D. (Translator)
This text presents a biograpy of Wang Liping, the 18th generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over 11 centuries.
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The Stations of Solitude
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Alice Koller
The long-awaited follow-up to Koller's bestselling chronicle of self-discovery An Unknown Woman outlines how Koller has used her personal philosophy to meet the challenges of everyday life and invites readers to make their own commitment to honest living. Topics include earning money, finding a home, mourning, and feeling good about living alone ...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
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Leo Damrosch
In this one-volume biography, Harvard professor Leo Damrosch presents a comprehensive life of the 18th-century philosopher whose influential writings undeniably changed the world. Damrosch chronicles the many influences on Rousseau, from the political and social milieu of his birthplace, Geneva, through the rich intellectual and cultural world of ...
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Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy
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R J Hollingdale
This classic biography of Nietzsche, first published in the 1960s, was enthusiastically reviewed at the time. The biography is now reissued with its text updated in the light of recent research. Hollingdale's biography remains the single best account of the life and works for the student or non-specialist. The biography chronicles Nietzsche's ...
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One Taste
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Ken Wilber
These journals by psychologist Ken Wilber contain brief essays on topics such as art music, and culture. Sometimes personal, sometimes humorous, these journals include his views on the world's wisdom traditions.
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
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G I Gurdjieff
The Armenian-Greek spiritual teacher, G.I. Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive read in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff's unique perspective on life, it is organized around portraits of remarkable ...
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Edith Stein, a Biography
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Waltraud Herbstrith
This is the powerful and moving story of the remarkable Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism, gained fame as a great philosopher in Germany, became a Carmelite nun, and was put to death in a Nazi concentration camp. Recently beatified by Pope John Paul II, Edith Stein was a courageous, intelligent and holy woman who speaks powerfully to us ...
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Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography
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Lesley Chamberlain
An examination of the work completed by Nietzsche in 1889, the last creative year of his life. Ill with tertiary syphilis, Nietzsche eventually descended into madness and finally died in 1900, but at the time of his final collapse he was still engaged in creating the philosophical critique that was to transform modern man's perception of his world.
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Hannah Arendt
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Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Ross Guberman (Translator)
Kristeva delivers a thoughtful consideration of Arendt as a philosopher, a woman, and a Jew in an attempt to clarify contradictions made by her and rectify misconceptions about her. In particular, Kristeva discusses Arendt's express belief that a genuine life is not only a political life, but also one lived through narrative.
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Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts
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Monica Furlong
A combination of spiritual insight and outrageous behavior, wisdom and childishness, joyous high spirits and deep loneliness, Alan Watts (1915-1973) touched the lives of many with his teachings. In this penetrating biography, Furlong reveals how Watts was instrumental in introducing Eastern philosophy and religion to Western minds.
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Machiavelli in Hell
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Sebastian de Grazia
Convinced that a good political leader or "prince new" would have to engage in acts of cruelty and bad faith, Machiavelli faces a predicament: how to justify this evil to prospective leaders themselves and to people at large. This study offers an exploration of how he penetrated this difficulty. Telling the story of Machiavelli's childhood and ...
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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D.
In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community declared Baruch Spinoza excommunicated because he denied the immortality of the soul, the divinity of the scripture, and challenged the idea that the Torah was literally given by God. His writings remain as provocative today.
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