Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath, able to set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. In this definitive biography, particular attention is paid to his Prague root...

Isaiah Berlin A Life

Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him. Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was one of the great...

The Reincarnation of Edgar Allan Poe

When E. A. Poe left this world his work was far from finished. Undoubtedly one of if not the greatest of writers of the 19th Century, Poe was to fulfill his destiny and desires in another even more ce...

Memoires - Temoignages - Biographies- Siecle Traverse (Le)

Le Périgord de Jacquou le Croquant. La ligne bleue des Vosges au temps de l'Europe sans passeports. Chéchias et casquettes dans le port d'Alger. Le petit train d'Arpajon devant la grille du Luxembourg...

Sporen van transcendentie

Als een voorname vertegenwoordiger van de twintigste-eeuwse existentiefilosofie heeft de Duitse filosoof Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) als weinig anderen de crises van het moderne denken en bestaan verwoor...

Nietzsche

Nietzsche is een meeslepend portret van een van de grootste filosofen van de negentiende eeuw. In deze levendige biografische studie richt Zweig zich op Nietzsches gewoonten, passies en obsessies. Zwe...

Een geheim in de haard

De Schotse filosoof David Hume (1711-1776), die door zijnbewonderaars als de grootste van het Engelse taalgebied wordtgeëerd, was 18 jaar oud toen hij dag na dag een geestelijke strijdregistreerde ron...

Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner (1925-95) was one of the last great thinkers from Central Europe to be condemned by his Jewish background to experience the worst horrors of the twentieth century. He was a multilingual...

The Principal`s Graduation – My Heartfelt Words

Putting admirable rationales of university education into practice is never easy. While it is popular to emphasize market values and competitive rankings, moral values and ideals sound way too lofty n...

Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic

An indispensable work for understanding the life and teachings of one of the most unusual mystics and philosophers of our time.Ten years have past since, in the words of his attending physician, Osho...

Soren Kierkegaard

The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied. Soren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and p...

Amando A Pablo, Odiando A Escobar

The Colombian television journalist describes her relationship with cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, how she became his witness of choice for subduing people, and how she was silenced for twenty...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Met zijn scepsis en nuchtere mystiek vond Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) in zijn dagen weinig weerklank. Later veranderde dat: vele grote namen, van Nietzsche tot Richard Wagner en Samuel Beckett, vo...

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