Vladimir Solov'ev and the Knighthood of the Divine Sophia
by Samuel Cioran
At the turn of the century an intimate alliance of philosophers, poets and theologians discovered the incarnation of their aspirations for a spiritually transformed world in the symbol of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom of God. Under her various aliases as the Divine Feminine, the Wisdom Clothed in the Sun and the Beautiful Lady, this feminine archetype usurped the traditional role of Christ as the mediator between heaven and earth. She was, however, primarily the inspiration of the Russian philosophe...
Life Story of Orison Swett Marden: A Man Who Benefited Men (1925)
by Margaret Connolly
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Shambhala Pocket Library)
by George Long
Classic teachings on the art of living by the great Roman emperor, statesman, and general. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius originally wrote the meditations collected here in the form of a personal journal during his military campaigns in the second century. In them, he reflects with great beauty and simplicity upon the Stoic virtues that lead to a happy life: self-mastery, moral strength, duty to oneself and others, detachment, and acceptance of the divine order and the way of Nature. His wor...
In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on the experiments of subjectivity, and the care of the self. Through this lens he would reinterpret the social movements of May 68 and position himself politically in France in relation to the emergent ant-totalitarian and anti-welfare state current...
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
by Ahsan Hashim
Maine de Biran: Sa Vie Et Ses Pensees (Ed.1857) (Philosophie)
by Pierre Maine de Biran
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Philosopher's Biography (Biography)
by Biographiq
Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is known to us today primarily as a poet and litt rateur. Not many people, though, are aware of the vital significance of his efforts in the field of education and rural reconstruction. He loved the people of his country and strove for the rights of the rural poor to dignity and social justice. A pioneer in the field of education, he gave the last forty years of his life towards creating Visva-Bharati, an institution in rural Bengal, envisione...
The Life Progresses And Rebellion Of James, Duke Of Monmouth V2
by George Roberts
Das Wagnis, Ein Einzelner Zu Sein
by Michael Heymel and Christian Moller
Framed Narratives was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The work of French philosophe Denis Diderot (1713-1784) has inspired conflicting reactions in those who encounter him. Diderot has been admired and despised; he has moved his readers and irritated them - often at the same time. His work continually shifts betwee...
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new exploration of Karl Marx's life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought "A perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments of the man."-Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal Karl Marx (1818-1883)-philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor-was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his...