Biography & Autobiography : Philosophers

Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His eventful and c......

As one of America's "public intellectuals, " John Dewey was engaged in a lifelong struggle to understand the human mind and the nature of human inquiry. Acco......

A critical portrait of French philosopher and mystic E.M. Cioran Author: Zarifopol-Johnston, Ilinca Publisher: Indiana University Press Illustration: N Lang......

The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverbe......

Thomas L. Kane (1822Â1883), a crusader for antislavery, womenÂs rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive ......

Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribu......

An honest biography and an exciting read. These are the tales of a typical "coming of age" story. The story takes us through Rousseau's social life. Rousse......

Finally, a book that presents the facts, dispels the myths, and shows you how to be green without having to compromise yourself and your home. The first book......

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone ......

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. (Intellectual stillness......

This book is a tribute to Michael Servetus and his legacy as a humanist, Renaissance scholar, and standard-bearer of freedom of conscience. The Servetus Inte......

In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a polit......

In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-cent......

Philosophy is a discipline that makes no observations, conducts no experiments, and needs no input from experience. It is an armchair subject, requiring only......

Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the “father of environmental ethics.” Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in e......

For nearly half a century the charismatic, strikingly handsome spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti gathered an enormous following throughout Europe, India, Aus......

Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna-and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler mar......

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 introdu......

This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intelle......

Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, and equally despised by a significant nu......