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Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume 616
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy and psychology, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Scion of a distinguished prewar Viennese Jewish family and son of the chief rabbi of Zurich, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was a philosopher of religion and scholar of Judaism and the New Testament whose career and public life intersected with that of many of the luminaries of postwar continental European and American intellectual life in the humanities. In a life that took him to teaching posts in Jerusalem, New York, Paris, and Berlin, he became a repository...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alan Watts was a philosopher, lecturer and the West's foremost popularizer of Asian religion & philosophy. This autobiography tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to challenge convention and think for themselves.
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