10 books in Biography & Autobiography - Philosophers
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Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
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Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
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Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $13.95
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
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Maimonides
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time.
Maimonides...
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Maimonides
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time.
Maimonides... Read more >
The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Written by Joel L. Kraemer
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time.
Maimonides... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Lost History
The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
Written by Michael H. Morgan
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $15.95
In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, it is important to remember that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Lost History fills a significant void and is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major... Read more >
The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
Written by Michael H. Morgan
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $15.95
In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, it is important to remember that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Lost History fills a significant void and is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Lost History
The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
Written by Michael H. Morgan
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $26.00
In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, we often forget that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major role played by the early Muslim world in influencing modern... Read more >
The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
Written by Michael H. Morgan
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $26.00
In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, we often forget that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major role played by the early Muslim world in influencing modern... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Marsilio Ficino
Edited by Angela Voss
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 19, 2006
Price: $18.95
Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting life’s work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason — which included integrating pagan magical practice with Christianity. In a lengthy... Read more >
Edited by Angela Voss
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 19, 2006
Price: $18.95
Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting life’s work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason — which included integrating pagan magical practice with Christianity. In a lengthy... Read more >
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Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $22.00
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Written by Rebecca Goldstein
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2006
Price: $22.00
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems... Read more >
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
Written by Joseph Joubert
Introduction by Paul Auster
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2005
Price: $14.95
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks... Read more >
Written by Joseph Joubert
Introduction by Paul Auster
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2005
Price: $14.95
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks... Read more >
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