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Martin Heidegger

With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy an...

Autobiography Of Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers...

Derrida A Biography

This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930 2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosoph...

Heidegger

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most influential, but also most cryptic and controversial philosophers. His early fusion of phenomenology with existentialism inspired Sartre and man...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein possessed one of the most acute philosophical minds of the 20th century. In this incisive portrait, Monk offers a unique insight into the life and work of a modern genius who radically re...

Heidegger

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most influential, but also most cryptic and controversial philosophers. His early fusion of phenomenology with existentialism inspired Sartre and man...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Constituting Feminist Subjects

Kathi Weeks suggests that one of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop theories of the subject that are adequate to feminist politics. Although the 1980s modernist-po...

Brothers

A compelling account of a boy coming to terms with his brother's death and his discovery of his own and his brother's homosexuality. Brothers is a book which is both compelling and inte...

Key

The final book in the enthralling Engelsfors trilogy It's been over a month since the tragedy in Engelsfors High School. But the Chosen Ones have no time to recover before their world is turned ups...

Matchmaking for Beginners

Marnie inherits her ex-husband's great-aunt's Brooklyn brownstone as well as her unfinished matchmaking "projects" consisting of her unique friends and neighbors who are still single. By the author of...

Memoirs of Glueckel of Hameln

Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade...