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Author Jeremy Gray provides a comprehensive and intellectually stimulating introduction to Bernhard Riemann’s life and paradigm-defining work. Beginning with his early influences - in particular, his relationship with his renowned predecessor Carl Friedrich Gauss - Gray goes on to explore Riemann’s specific contributions to geometry, functions of a complex variable, prime numbers, and functions of a real variable, which opened the way to discovering the limits of the calculus.

Throughout life, you experience so many emotions, decisions, people, and situations. It lies in your conscience to learn from life and handle it the right way. Afi Kingdom is an author, international podcaster, mindset coach, and an efficient educator. He tries to share his life's experiences through skills to shape and manipulate personalities, relationships, style, confidence, and other essential elements of living.

Sulaiman Samuel Cohen was Jewish by race and Iraqi by origin. An accountant by profession, Cohen came to India in his early youth and settled down here for life. He worked in Bombay for a few years, then joined the Theosophical Society and lived at its headquarters in Adyar, Madras for five years. During this time Cohen heard of Sri Ramana Maharshi, came to Sri Ramanasramam with the intention of staying for fourteen days and stayed fourteen years, from 1936 until the Maharshi shed the body in 1950. He was one of the many staunch devotees who lived at Palakothu, a sadhu’s colony near the ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, universal genius and philosopher: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Con agudo ingenio, rigor intelectual e intensa ironía, este filósofo galés expone con agradable sencillez e igual profundidad su pensamiento acerca del mundo. Quince ensayos, escritos entre 1928 y 1935, forman el compendio de una obra deslumbrante que merece la atención general.

Karl Marx, der revolutionäre Querkopf und Vordenker des 19. Jahrhunderts, ist wieder da. Seit der Kommunismus in seinem Namen - aber nicht in seinem Sinne - Geschichte ist, feiert er ein bemerkenswertes Comeback. Anlässlich seines 200. Geburtstags erkundet Jürgen Neffe dessen Ursachen - in Marx' Schriften wie in seiner Biografie. Er schildert das Leben eines Flüchtlings und geduldeten Staatenlosen, der für seine Überzeugungen keine Opfer scheut.

Scholars have long known that Martin Heidegger was a Nazi, but many doubted that his philosophy had anything to do with Hitler’s ideology. Now Peter Trawny, drawing on Heidegger’s hidden notebooks, argues that the philosopher’s anti-Semitism was deeply entwined with his ideas.

Sri Ramana, The Sage of Arunagiri fascinated scores of seekers for whom this small book was an introduction into the life and teachings of a living sage, residing at the Holy Arunachala Mountain. The captivating portrayal of the Sage’s life, a condensed anthology of the essential teachings of the Master and extracts from renowned texts like the Yoga Vasishta have served to insure the longevity of this publication. First released on the 63rd Jayanti Celebration of Sri Ramana Maharshi, it is a well written biography of the sage.

Friedrich Nietzsche's work blasted the foundation of Western thinking. The death of God, the Übermensch and the slave morality permeate our culture, high and low, and yet he is one of history's most misunderstood philosophers. Nietzsche himself thought that all philosophy was autobiographical, and in this myth-shattering book Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of a brilliant, eccentric and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work.

Preguntas aparentemente sencillas, como ¿qué te pasa?, ¿cómo te llamas? o ¿de dónde vienes?, nos van acercando poco a poco al centro más profundo de nuestra alma, allí donde se descubre la herida originada por las cuatro infinitudes esenciales: vida, muerte, tú y mundo. Jamás seremos demasiado humanos: si algún horizonte tiene sentido es el de llegar a ser más humanos.

Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, known to the English-speaking world as Julius Evola (1898-1974), was an Italian philosopher, magician, painter, occultist, Orientalist, linguist, and champion mountain climber. Often considered a pillar of Neo-Fascist thought, Evola opposed Fascism and called himself a “radical traditionalist”.

Philosopher and writer Jiddu Krishnamurti’s life has been a source of intrigue and curiosity for those who are acquainted with his oeuvre. In this Hindi translation of Krishnamurti: His Life and Death, Mary Lutyens shares a personal and philosophical account of his life, staying aligned with his beliefs about the world, the nature of knowledge, self, life and death. The translator, Mukesh Gupta, brings alive the author’s world-view through an apt adaptation of ideas into the cultural vision of another language.

Extraordinario filósofo y escritor ruso con orientación mística, fue autor de varios libros de temática espiritual y esotérica, que lo hicieron escritor de culto y un conferencista destacado que recorrió el mundo exponiendo sus ideas acerca del hombre, su evolución mental, el misterio de la vida y su absoluta vulnerabilidad, o dicho de otra forma, sobre el llamado Cuarto Camino.

Un egregio pensador de talla mundial. Filósofo, poeta, músico y filólogo alemán, es considerado uno de los pensadores modernos más influyentes del siglo XIX. Crítico y corrosivo, realizó una crítica exhaustiva de la cultura, la religión y la filosofía occidental, mediante la deconstrucción de los conceptos que las integran, basada en el análisis de las actitudes morales (positivas y negativas) hacia la vida.

Una presencia de relieve en las letras castellanas. José Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, 9 de mayo de 1883 - Madrid, 18 de octubre de 1955) fue un filósofo y ensayista español, exponente principal de la teoría del perspectivismo y de la razón vital e histórica, situado en el movimiento del Novecentismo.

Un menú pitagórico vegano, un menú kantiano servido a la hora en punto, una comida medieval con fondo de 'Carmina Burana' o un Banquete digno del mejor Sócrates. Un ameno recorrido por lo que pensaron sobre la comida –y lo que comieron o bebieron– algunos de los filósofos más ilustres.

This small volume contains the recollections of Tolstoy's son, Count Ilya. Also included is a brief introduction to Tolstoy's thinking by Professor David Christopher Lane.

Kierkegaard nació en una acaudalada familia de Copenhague. Este filósofo, precursor del existencialismo ha sido considerado filósofo, teólogo, padre del existencialismo, crítico literario, humorista, psicólogoy poeta. Dos de sus ideas más conocidas son la "subjetividad" y el "salto de fe". El salto de fe es su concepción de cómo un individuo cree en Dios, o cómo una persona actúa en el amor.

In 1967 at the age of nineteen, Ethan was unsuspectingly catapulted from his self-imposed, fortress of atheism to swimming in the ocean of the Divine in one blinding, mind-melting flash of insight. He never looked back. This is one man's journey, spanning more than fifty years, through the brambles and the thickets; through the ancient halls of mystery, the pure emptiness of being and into the bliss of the Divine Light. This is a story of love, love and more love; a transfiguration from mind to Heart.

The father of modern philosophy, Descartes is still one of the most widely discussed philosophers today. Putting rationalism above all else, he sought to base all knowledge of the world on a single idea: "I think, therefore I am." This introduction expertly summarises his thoughts on the dualism of mind and body, his proofs for God’s existence, and his responses to scepticism. Explaining how his life informed his philosophy, Bracken demonstrates the philosopher’s enduring significance.