At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva, Paperback - Alice Jardine

At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Krist...

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky's work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. ...

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In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical asp...

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From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual origins.

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In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman's approach ...

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a philosopher, writer and literary critic who had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baud...

An accelerated introduction into the life and work of the first female Nobel Laureate for Economics, Elinor Ostrom.

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any unde...

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Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness--but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentlene...

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Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

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When a cultural historian writes a memoir it is likely to be interesting. When that person is William Irwin Thompson, author of numerous book and a...

A fun authorized children's biography of John Stott with Maps, Timeline, Photos and Fascinating FactsIllustrations: 42 photographs and two street maps

This new biography-featuring over 150 archival images and full-color photographs printed throughout-introduces Julia Morgan as both a pioneering ar...

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Reducere. Risk Thinking is a book about codifying common sense in a world of radical uncertainty. Our brains are wired to think forward, to imagine future si...

The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry SwedroeAuthor: Kevin GroganIn their expanded and updated 2018 edition of "Reducing the Risk of Black Swans: Using the...

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In her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a narrative th...