New York: St. Martin's Press; MacMillan Press Ltd., 1995. — 319 p. — ISBN: 0-333-55036-6, O-312-12502-X This volume features a chronological survey exploring Pascal's (1623-62) achievement as a mathematician, physicist and religious thinker, and a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 623 p. Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Trained as a jurist and employed as a counsellor, librarian, and historian, he made famous contributions to logic, mathematics, physics, and metaphysics, yet...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 521 p. Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy can afford to ignore him. This volume considers all the major aspects of Hegel's work: epistemology,...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. — 242 p. T he first draft of this essay was published by instalments in 1874 and 1875, in the monthly magazine the Nineteenth Century. In his preface to “Captain Mansana,” Bjömstjerne Bjömsen (1879) referred to the character-drawing in the essay. Some ten thousand copies were at once printed in Germany in the form of magazine articles, and...
Serif Publishing, 2017. — 344 p. — ISBN10: 1897959559, 13 978-1897959558. E.H. Carr presents a vast range of characters in this true story of the personal as well as political dreams and aspirations of Russian exiles. The story is set in the midst of the upheaval and revolutionary fervour of the mid 1800s. 1847: the Russian liberal Alexander Herzen and his family leave Moscow...
Springer, 1998. — 215 p. — (International Archives of the History of Ideas 158). Some scholars in the history of ideas have had a growing interest in examining Leibniz's many discussions ofvarious aspects of religion, Christian, Jewish and far eastern. Leibniz, with his voracious interest and concern for so many aspects of human intellectual and spiritual life, read a wide...
Springer Netherlands, 1995. — 238 p. — (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 142) The general view of scholars is that the Kabbalah had no meaningful influence on Leibniz's thought. } But on the basis of new evidence I am convinced that the question must be reopened. The Kabbalah did influence Leibniz, and a recognition...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 354 p. F. A. Hayek (1899–1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an ‘‘anti-Marx’’ who did more than any other recent thinker to elucidate the theoretical foundations of the free market...
Oneworld Publications, 2013. — 191 p. The philosophy of John Locke has dramatically shaped the way we live today. He is quoted in the Declaration of Independence and has had a lasting influence on many of our political systems, shaping our ideas on rights, government by consent, religious toleration, psychology and empirical science. Thought by many to be the quintessential...
Columbia University Press, 2013. — 456 p. Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal of brutal dictators while also eloquently championing love — which, he insisted, was...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 1154 p. In many ways, Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza appears to be a contradictory figure in the history of philosophy. From the beginning, he has been notorious as an “atheist” who seeks to substitute Nature for a personal deity; yet he was also, in Novalis’s famous description of him, “the God-intoxicated man.” He was an uncompromising...
Random House. Vintage Books, 1991. — 522 p. — ISBN: 9780140159950. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. The veritable flood of writings about Wittgenstein--fiction as well as nonfiction--continues...
Random House. Vintage Books 1991. — 522 p. — ISBN: 9780140159950. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. The veritable flood of writings about Wittgenstein--fiction as well as nonfiction--continues...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 492 p. Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 364 p. Francis Bacon (1561–1626) is one of the most important figures of the early modern era. His plan for scientific reform played a central role in the birth of the new science. The essays in this volume offer a comprehensive survey of his writings on science, including his classifications of sciences, his theory of knowledge and of forms,...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 812 p. — ISBN10: 0521003873; ISBN13: 978-0521003872 One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major biography of Hegel in English offers not only a complete, up-to-date account...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 663 p. Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced...
Center for Tomas More Studies, 2003. — 62 p. English statesman and writer Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) is best remembered as both a humanist scholar-as author of the classic 1516 political satire *Utopia*-and a religious martyr: he was beheaded by King Henry VIII for refusing to acknowledge the monarch as the head of the Church of England. Much of what we know about his life...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 336 p. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessible. The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics. They...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 496 p. The essays in this volume explore the full range of Husserl's work and reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. There are treatments of his most important contributions to phenomenology, intentionality and the philosophy of mind, epistemology, the philosophy of language, ontology, and mathematics. An underlying theme of the volume...
Buenos Aires: Batiscafo, 2015. — 144 p. La filosofía de Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) constituye la culminación del pensamiento racionalista. Ningún otro autor como él se ha restringido tan rigurosamente a los conceptos del puro intelecto para alcanzar una descripción del universo y del hombre, del plano físico exterior y de la dimensión moral y afectiva interior. Fascinado por el...
Polity Press, 2019. — 226 p. — (Classic Thinkers). — ISBN: 978-1-509516-49-2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory. In this book, Céline Spector, one of the world’s foremost experts on Rousseau’s thought, provides an accessible...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 120 p. With his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner's introduction to the philosopher's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings and explodes many of the misconceptions that have grown in the hundred...
CRC Press, 2011. - 260 p. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus focuses on the life and accomplishments of one of the seventeenth century’s most influential mathematicians and philosophers. The book, which draws on Leibniz’s written works and translations, and reconstructs dialogues Leibniz may have had based on the historical record of his life...
University Of Chicago Press, 2017. — 640 p. “Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists...
Can Sanat, 2012. — 84 s. Stefan Zweig, Nazi Almanyası'nda kitaplarının yakılmasının ardından, hümanist düşünür Erasmus'la başladığı içsel yolculuğuna yine bir hümanistle, Montaigne'le noktayı koyar. Montaigne, yazarın 1942'de hayatına son vermeyi seçmesiyle yarım kalan son eserlerinden biridir. Avrupa'yı Avrupa yapan filozof ve yazarları konu alan biyografiler üzerinden kendini...
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