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A brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by ""one of the most influential thinkers of our time"" (Sunday Times) ""Why We Drive weaves philosophers, thinkers, and scientific research with shade-tree mechanics and racers to defend our right to...

John Dee was one of the greatest scientific minds of his time, but also one of the most controversial. He was a learned man in fields as varied as mathematics and astronomy, centuries before they became formalized fields of study, but he is better remembered for performing magic and alchemy. Instead of astronomy, he became renowned across England for astrology, and he was one of the country’s most notorious occult writers during his life.

In Simply Hegel, Robert L. Wicks presents Hegel’s revolutionary philosophy in clear and simple language, illuminating not only his basic ideas, but also the deeper meanings hidden within the book. Wicks’s analysis also contextualizes Hegel’s thought by providing a vivid chronology of his times, which included such earth-shaking events as the French Revolution and Napoleon’s invasion of Prussia.

This is an essay on the unique teaching of J. Krishnamurti. It starts with the question "What is consciousness?" - and carefully proposes a holistic definition, after reviewing the various psychological and spiritual theories that deal with this subject. The author actually goes a step ahead and focuses on a more particular issue, a provocative question asked by K: “How to empty consciousness of its content?”

رحلة فكرية عميقة لحياة الفيلسوف والشاعر الأكثر جدلًا وغموضًا أبي العلاء المعري، بقلم العقاد الساحر وثقافته الواسعة جسد عبقرية هذا المفكر الاستثنائي الذي سبق زمانه بتساؤلاته حول الحياة والموت، والإيمان والعقل، والخير والشر. فقدم صورة صادقة ومثيرة لروح المعري المتمردة، ليتركما مندهشين متسائلين عن السر العبقرية والجمال!

Wer Friedrich Engels kennenlernen will, entdeckt weit mehr als den Schattenmann neben Karl Marx. Wie konnte ein Sohn aus wohlhabendem Textilhaus zum Mitbegründer des Marxismus werden, Geldgeber und Lebemann, und dabei eine Analyse der Arbeiterklasse liefern, die bis heute Debatten über Ausbeutung und gesellschaftliche Veränderung prägt? Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Wissensreise und vermittelt verständlich und klar strukturiert Erkenntnisse zu Engels Leben, Ideen und Wirkung.

Solange man Schach spielt, ist man auf Züge angerichtet, die auf den Gegner gerichtet sind. Das ändert sich, wenn man sich nicht mehr über die Partie, sondern über das Spiel selbst Gedanken zu machen beginnt.

Em A vida dos estoicos, Ryan Holiday e Stephen Hanselman apresentam histórias fascinantes de homens e mulheres que se esforçaram para seguir as virtudes estoicas atemporais da coragem, da justiça, da temperança e da sabedoria. Organizado em breves biografias que abordam desde os estoicos mais estudados aos menos conhecidos, este livro lança luz sobre os hábitos de pessoas que viveram essa filosofia e as lições que devem ser aprendidas de suas dificuldades e de seus sucessos.

David Hume (1711–1776) is a towering and intriguing figure. He was the preeminent philosopher in what is now called the Scottish Enlightenment, a time that was “crowded with genius” and in a place regarded as the rebirth of the golden era of Athens. His writing displayed an astonishing range, addressing everything from metaphysics to politics, and in subject after subject, he produced fresh, novel, and brilliant insights.

Learn how the life of this Lebanese immigrant has positioned him to artistically capture the hearts, minds, and souls of readers for generations, making him one of the world’s best-selling poets. In the collected works of poetry, poet, author, artist, and philosopher, Kahlil Gibran, shares his spiritual and moral views of life, purpose, love, and pain.

“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street Journal A grand narrative...

A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general...

Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and...

Hölderlin war niemals verrückt. In der Konsequenz des Leben-und-besingen-Müssens einer eigentlichen Lebensbejahung, der Annahme des Leides und des Glaubens an die göttliche und liebende Grundstimmung der menschlichen Seele, musste Hölderlin von seinen Mitmenschen, insbesondere von seiner Mutter, für verrückt erklärt werden. Er hat das Angebot angenommen.

In seinen persönlichen Briefen zeigt sich Friedrich Nietzsche von einer überraschend intimen Seite. Die Briefe dokumentieren nicht nur Nietzsches alltägliches Leben und seine körperlichen Leiden, sondern auch seine geistige Haltung in einer Phase zunehmender Isolation. Er spricht offen über das Ausbleiben intellektueller Resonanz auf seine Werke – bleibt aber unbeirrt und erklärt mit Nachdruck sein zentrales Projekt: die „Umwertung aller Werte".

In der Monographie "Friedrich Nietzsche. Ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit" zeigt sich Rudolf Steiner als einer der ersten, der dem Schaffen des damals...

Siguiendo los pasos de Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault y Paul K. Feyerabend, Espíritus del presente crea un amplio panorama de las ideas de la posguerra en Occidente. Wolfram Eilenberger ofrece un relato cautivador de los albores de una nueva ilustración que conduce directamente a las fallas de nuestro tiempo.

This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It also presents an engaging political history of the last several decades, including such events as the Spanish Civil War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the march on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War.

An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of Seeing Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland...