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  • Personal Memories of the Early Analytic Philosophers

    Analytic Logic / Synthetic Lives

    par Jeffrey Maynes, Steven Gimbel ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Analytic Philosophy began in the first decades of the 20th century at Cambridge with Bertrand Russell, in Vienna with the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists, and in Berlin with Hans Reichenbach’s Society for Empirical Philosophy. While the story of the rise of this intellectual movement is chronicled in a number of recent and not so recent books, these treatments largely focus on the story of ... En savoir plus

    $140.99 CAD

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  • At the Existentialist Café

    Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

    par Sarah Bakewell ...
    Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and their circle, who loved and hated, drank and debated with each other—and forever changed the way we think about thinking.At the Existentialist Café is a thrilling look at the famous group of post-war thinkers who ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Exact Thinking in Demented Times

    The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

    par Karl Sigmund, Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and scienceInspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Murder of Professor Schlick

    The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

    par David Edmonds ...
    From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Paul Klee: Creative Confession

    par Paul Klee ...
    Collections Livre 5 - Artist's Writings
    "Creative Confession" brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee, one of the most distinctive artists of the early twentieth century. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify Klee's artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process.Entitled "Graphic Art" (published as Creative Confession, 1920), "Ways of Nature Study" (1923) and "Exact Experiments in ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Wittgenstein's Poker

    par David Edmonds, John Eidinow ...
    On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the world that the two philosophers had come to blows, armed with red-hot pokers . . . ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Landscape Of History : How Historians Map The Past

    par John Lewis Gaddis ...
    What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Generation of Postmemory

    Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

    par Marianne Hirsch ...
    Collections series Gender and Culture Series
    Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories-multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Lovers of Philosophy

    How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought

    par Warren Ward ...
    They were Europe's greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love?Lovers of Philosophy explores the love lives of seven philosophers, and how their most intimate experiences came to shape their ideas. In these pages, the reader learns about the significance of Kant's infatuation, Hegel's premarital liaisons, Nietzsche's heartbreak, Heidegger's hypocrisy, Sartre's promiscuous polyamory, ... En savoir plus

    $14.75 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Another Way of Telling

    A Possible Theory of Photography

    par John Berger, Jean Mohr ...
    A new edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr's classic investigation into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from other art forms'One of the world's most influential art critics … Berger sees clearly with fresh surprise yet profound understanding' Washington TimesIn one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised, the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • When Reason Goes on Holiday

    Philosophers in Politics

    par Neven Sesardic ...
    Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right?Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the unexpected level of political irrationality among leading contemporary philosophers. The body of the book presents a detailed analysis of extreme ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Artist and the Mathematician

    par Amir D Aczel ...
    Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s and continued to be published through most of the twentieth century, was a direct product as well as a major force behind an important revolution that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century that completely changed Western culture. Pure mathematics, the area of Bourbaki's work, seems on the surface ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD