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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey

    The Great War and the Writing of the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus

    by Radmila Schweitzer, Marjorie Perloff, Ray Monk, Knut Olav Åmås, Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska, Martin Pilch, Xenia Baumann, Alfred Schmidt, Ian Ground ...
    Translated by Sebastian Smallshaw ...
    Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become the most influential philosophy book of the 20th century.Ludwig Wittgenstein’s way to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the ground-breaking works in the history of philosophy, can rightly be ... Read more

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  • Portraits of Wittgenstein

    Abridged Edition

    Edited by F.A. Flowers III, Ian Ground ...
    Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights into Wittgenstein's extraordinary life, this unique collection reveals Wittgenstein's character and power of personality more vividly and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • The Murder of Professor Schlick

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Virginia Woolf

    The Will to Create as a Woman

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  • Lovers of Philosophy

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    by 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, ... Read more

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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

    by Edward Kanterian ...
    Series Book 13 - Critical Lives
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, writes noted scholar Edward Kanterian, was a ‘philosopher’s philosopher’. He was one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy and is regarded as the greatest philosophical genius since Immanuel Kant. In this book, Kanterian traces the complex relationship between the philosopher’s life, his work and his time. The author describes Wittgenstein’s eventful life, his numerous ... Read more

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  • On Humour

    by Simon Critchley ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when ... Read more

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  • The Modes of Modern Writing

    Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature

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    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James ... Read more

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  • Translating Great Russian Literature

    The Penguin Russian Classics

    by Cathy McAteer ...
    Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals involved ... Read more

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    A portrait of the brilliant and flawed analyst who was Sigmund Freud's colleague, impresario, biographer—and who rescued him from the Nazis.The saturation of the English-speaking world with psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud's disciple, he led the international psychoanalytic movement, shifting its vortex from Vienna to London and spreading its ... Read more

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