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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Gabriel, Mary
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Bakewell, Sarah
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How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers,... [More...]


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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Bakewell, Sarah
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This book, a spirited and singular biography (and the first full life of Michel Eyquen de Montaigne in English for nearly 50 years), relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.


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Socrates: A Man for Our Times
Johnson, Paul
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In his highly acclaimed style, historian Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the Fifth Century B.C., and how what this man thought still... [More...]


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Jacques Derrida: A Biography
Powell, Jason
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At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. This work offers a biographical overview of this important philosopher, drawing on Derrida's own accounts of... [More...]


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The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy
Yancy, George
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Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers.


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Schopenhauer
Wicks, Robert
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This innovative volume presents an insightful philosophical portrait of the life and work of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Focuses on the concept of the sublime as it clarifies Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory, moral theory and asceticism
Explores the... [More...]


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A Memoir: People and Places
Warnock, Mary
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In an intelligent and engaging memoir, philosopher Mary Warnock reflects on some of the people who have influenced or intrigued her during her career, offering a highly personal view of an important period in 20th-century history.


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A Memoir: People and Places
Warnock, Mary
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In an intelligent and engaging memoir, philosopher Mary Warnock reflects on some of the people who have influenced or intrigued her during her career, offering a highly personal view of an important period in 20th-century history.


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Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine
Kuklick, Bruce
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At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member of the Penn faculty. Bruce Kuklick sheds light on Fontaine's career as a black scholar as well as on the discipline... [More...]


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