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ISBN: 9780415283496 - Rousseau Rousseau
Dent, Nicholas

ISBN10: 9780203881729  ISBN13: 9780203881729
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
In this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, he introduces and assesses Rousseau's central ideas and arguments. These include the corruption of... More

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ISBN: 9780521709101 - Kierkegaard: A Biography Kierkegaard: A Biography
Hannay, Alastair

ISBN10: 9780511074325  ISBN13: 9780511074325
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Written by one of the world's preeminent authorities on Kierkegaard, this biography is the first to reveal the delicate imbrication of Kierkegaard's life and thought. To grasp the importance and influence of Kierkegaard's thought far beyond his... More

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ISBN: 9780300175424 - Why Niebuhr Matters Why Niebuhr Matters
Lemert, Charles

ISBN10: 9780300178333  ISBN13: 9780300178333
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important moral guide in mid-twentieth-century America. But what does he have to say to us now? In what way does he inform the thinking of... More

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ISBN: 9780521823012 - Descartes: A Biography Descartes: A Biography
Clarke, Desmond M

ISBN10: 9780511166488  ISBN13: 9780511166488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Descartes is best remembered for 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the emergence of the new sciences in the seventeenth century. He was midwife... More

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ISBN: 9780415473736 - Autobiography Autobiography
Russell, Bertrand

ISBN10: 9780203864999  ISBN13: 9780203864999
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life ... More

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ISBN: 9780415487320 - Fact and Fiction Fact and Fiction
Russell, Bertrand

ISBN10: 9780203864661  ISBN13: 9780203864661
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. More

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ISBN: 9780521709101 - Kierkegaard Kierkegaard
Hannay

ISBN10: 9780511590108  ISBN13: 9780511590108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript is a classic of existential literature. It concludes the first and richest phase of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authorship and is the text that philosophers look to first when attempting to define... More

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ISBN: 9780300164282 - Philosophers' Quarrel Philosophers' Quarrel
Zaretsky, Robert; Scott, John T

ISBN10: 9780300156249  ISBN13: 9780300156249
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and... More

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ISBN: 9780300119312 - Tocqueville and His America Tocqueville and His America
Kaledin, Arthur

ISBN10: 9780300176209  ISBN13: 9780300176209
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780195324877 - Goddess of the Market Ayn Rand and the American Right Goddess of the Market Ayn Rand and the American Right
JENNIFER, BURNS

ISBN10: 9780199717224  ISBN13: 9780199717224
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on... More