"This is not a pastel reverie, but a work in which the author, an English philosopher, feminist, and Marxist, not only bares her soul but carefully dissects it ... Rose develops by contrast her notion of love's work: the obligation to go on thinking and caring in spite of the ce…
Love's Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own l…
Introducing Bertrand Russell
by Robinson, Dave, Groves, Judy
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Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles: how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell" we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken vi…
Introducing Bertrand Russell: a graphic guide
by Robinson, Dave, Groves, Judy
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In this [book, the author] tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to defy convention and think for themselves. From early in this intellectual life, […
"In this new edition of his acclaimed autobiography? long out of print and rare until now? Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to defy c…