Henry Carter Hull

Examines the key ideas and life of German philosopher Georg Hegel, includes excerpts from his writings, and discusses his development of the dialectical method.

This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Hannah Arendt's life.

Chronological guide to the principle theoretical ideas of the great thinkers of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the world of Islam, including a list of major works, and explanation of significant ideas and theories, for each entry.

Essential teachings, brilliant musings, and provocative theories from three of history's greatest thinkers. The Road to Inner Freedom : The seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza views the ability to experience rational love of God as the key to mastering the contradictory and violent human emotions. The Art of Philosophizing : These groundbreaking essays by Bertrand Russell deal with the art of reckoning in the fields of mathematics,...

"Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is supportive of Scottish nationalism. But his fervent beliefs...

A tribute to author Iris Murdoch, now stricken with Alzheimer's disease, written by her husband of over forty years, in which he discusses their passionate love relationship and traces the progression of her affliction.

"In this collection of early lectures, the author of Being and Time defines and begins to develop his unique approach to phenomenology. This volume contains the first lectures Martin Heidegger delivered at Marburg in the winter semester of 1923 -- 1924. In them, he introduces the notion of phenomenology by tracing it back to Aristotle's treatments of phainomenon and logos. This extensive commentary on Aristotle is an important addition to Heidegger's...

"The most important work by a key figure in German thought, Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human , originally published in 1928, appears here for the first time in English, accompanied by a substantial Introduction by J. M. Bernstein, after having served for decades as an influence on thinkers as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Peter Berger, Habermas, and the new naturalists. The Levels , as it has long been known, draws on phenomenological,...