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Leonardo Da Vinci by Sigmund Freud
Category: Culture | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Sigmund Freud was already internationally acclaimed as the principal founder of psychoanalysis when he turned his attention to the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It remained Freud's favourite composition. Compressing many of his insights into a few pages, the result is a fascinating picture of some of Freud ...Show more
Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil
Category: Culture | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Hailed by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our times', Simone Weil was one of great essayists and activists of the twentieth century. Her writings on the nature of religious faith and spirituality have inspired many subsequent thinkers. Wrestling with the moral dilemmas entailed by commitment t ...Show more
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss
Category: Culture | Series: Routledge Great Minds
The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilling a ...Show more
On Dialogue by David Bohm
Category: Culture | Series: Routledge Great Minds
David Bohm is considered one of the best physicists of all time. He also had a deep interest in human communication and creativity. Influential in both management and communication theory in what is known 'Bohm Dialogue', On Dialogue is both inspiring and pioneering. Bohm considers the origin and very m ...Show more
Relativity by Albert Einstein
Category: Science | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Time magazine's "Man of the Century", Albert Einstein is the founder of modern physics and his theory of relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this short book, Einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory that h ...Show more
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
Category: Politics | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the not ...Show more
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Gustav Jung
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Written three years before his death, The Undiscovered Self combines acuity with concision in masterly fashion and is Jung at his very best. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the unconscious, human instinct and spirituality, Jung warn ...Show more
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and most fascinating philosophers of all time. His Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, composed in a series of remarkable numbered propositions, was the only book he published in his lifetime. He tackles nothing less than the question of whether there is such a thi ...Show more
What I Believe by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Bertrand Russell is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and commentator on social and political affairs. What I Believe offers a lucid and concise insight into Russell's thinking on issues that preoccupied him throughout his life: atheism, ...Show more
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