In this book, seven great modern thinkers trace the roots of their contributions to philosophy. Essays include A. J. Ayer on what led to his logical positivist manifesto Language, Truth, and Logic, and Martin Buber on the origins of his view of existence. Other contributors include Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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David Ramsay Steele is author of From Marx to Mises (1992) and co-author of Three Minute Therapy (1997). Kerri Mommer holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Northwestern University.
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Genius in their Own Words: The Intellectual Journeys of Seven Great 20th-Century Thinks is an anthology of writings and statements by seven of the greatest thinkers of modern times: Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Buber, A. J. Ayer, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. A superb selection of scientific, sociological, and spiritual wisdom, Genius In Their Own Words makes for unique, fascinating, insightful, and occasionally inspiring reading.
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MY MOTHER HAVING DIED WHEN I WAS two years old, and my father when I was three, I was brought up in the house of my grandfather, Lord John Russell, afterwards Earl Russell. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Their Own Words, New York, United States, Bertrand Russell, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Christ Church, Ecole Normale, Sartre Replies, Simone de Beauvoir, The Psychology of Imagination, Vienna Circle, Gilbert Ryle, Lloyd Morgan, Michael Foster, Saint Genet, Supreme Being, Thomas Aquinas, Isaiah Berlin, Lazare Station, Marburg School, Max Weber, Nicolai Hartmann, Stefan George, William James, Charles Tenney New!
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Their Own Words, New York, United States, Bertrand Russell, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Christ Church, Ecole Normale, Sartre Replies, Simone de Beauvoir, The Psychology of Imagination, Vienna Circle, Gilbert Ryle, Lloyd Morgan, Michael Foster, Saint Genet, Supreme Being, Thomas Aquinas, Isaiah Berlin, Lazare Station, Marburg School, Max Weber, Nicolai Hartmann, Stefan George, William James, Charles Tenney New!
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- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on 23 pages
- Critique of Dialectical Reason (New Edition) (Vol. 2) by Jean-Paul Sartre on 10 pages
- Saint Genet by Jean-Paul Sartre on 4 pages
- Truth and Method (Continuum Impacts) by Hans-Georg Gadamer on 4 pages
- Bertrand Russell by A. J. Ayer in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 336
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