Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World

For over 8 hundred years, philosophers—men and women—who referred to as themselves Cynics, actually "dogs" of their language, roamed the streets and byways of the Hellenistic global, instructing unusual rules and practising a strange lifestyle. between them, crucial and targeted used to be Diogenes of Sinope, who turned the archetype of Classical Cynicism.

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

“Absorbing, meticulously researched. . . . [Sperber] succeeds within the basic job of all biography, re-creating a guy who leaps off the web page. ” —Jonathan Freedland, long island instances e-book ReviewIn this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, “likely to be definitive for a few years to come back” (John grey, big apple assessment of Books), historian Jonathan Sperber creates a meticulously researched and multilayered portrait of either the guy and the progressive instances within which he lived.

Schopenhauer: A Biography

In his quest to resolve 'the ever-disquieting riddle of existence', Schopenhauer explored nearly each measurement of human life, constructing a darkly compelling worldview that came across deep resonance in modern literature, tune, philosophy, and psychology. this can be the 1st entire biography of Schopenhauer written in English.

Hobbes: Morals and Politics: Volume 3 (Political Thinkers)

First released in 1977 this publication is either expository and important and concentres on Hobbes' moral and political concept, but additionally contemplating the impact on those of his metaphysics. up-to-date, with a brand new preface in particular for this re-issue, which brings jointly fresh scholarship on Hobbes, a specific necessary function of the ebook is the hot, severe bibliography.