Author: Dan Heisman
Publisher: Mongoose Press
Keywords: thinker, chess, improving
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0979148243
ISBN-13: 9780979148248

When a club player decides he wants to raise his rating to the next class level, he typically looks to improve his middlegame or endgame understanding. Often, however, the true secret to improvement lies not in studying additional chess material but in learning a more powerful thinking process. The Improving Chess Thinker provides representative thought processes from all classes of chess players, highlights the differences between these levels, and provides insight to help players raise their thinking process to the next level. Full of helpful tips and principles, the Improving Ches

Author: James P. Scanlan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: thinker, dostoevsky
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0801439949
ISBN-13: 9780801439940

For all his distance from formal philosophy, Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. In works from fictional masterpieces to little-known nonfiction prose, he grappled with the ultimate questions about the nature of humankind. His novels are peopled by characters who dramatize the fierce debates that preoccupied the Russian intelligentsia during the second half of the nineteenth century. What was the philosophy of Dostoevsky? How does reading this literary giant from a new perspective add to our understanding of him and of Russian culture? In this remarkable book, a l

Author: Prof. A. D. Nuttall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: thinker, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0300136293
ISBN-13: 9780300136296

A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeare’s thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating his creative preoccupations. Nuttall all

Author: Thomas Sheehan
Publisher: Transaction Pub
Keywords: thinker, man, heidegger
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 1981-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0913750166
ISBN-13: 9780913750162

Many people consider Martin Heidegger the most important German philosopher of the twentieth century. He is indisputably controversial and influential. Athough much has been written about Heidegger, this may be the best single volume covering his life, career, and thought. For all its breadth and complexity, Heidegger’s perspective is quite simple: he is concerned with the meaning of Being as disclosure. Heidegger’s life was almost as simple. He was a German professor, except for a brief but significant period in which he supported the Nazi regime. While that departure from ph

Author: Prof. A. D. Nuttall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: thinker, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-04-23
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300119283
ISBN-13: 9780300119282

A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeare’s thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating his creative preoccupations. Nuttall all

Author: David J. Gouwens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: thinker, religious, kierkegaard
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1996-02-23
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521555515
ISBN-13: 9780521555517

Making innovative use of Kierkegaard’s religious and philosophical works, David Gouwens explores his religious and theological thought, focusing on human nature, Christ, and Christian discipleship. He discusses Kierkegaard’s main concerns as a religious thinker, and his treatment of "becoming Christian," and counters the customary interpretation of his religious thought as privatistic and asocial. Kierkegaard’s ideas are seen to anticipate the end of "modernity," while standing at the center of the Christian tradition.

Author: Barbara Reynolds
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Keywords: man, thinker, political, poet, dante
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-04-28
List price: $52.75
ISBN-10: 1845111613
ISBN-13: 9781845111618

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds makes remarkable discoveries and unlocks previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental enigma has tantalised readers of the ’Commedia’ for seven centuries. Who was the leader prophesied by Virgil and Beatrice to bring peace to the world? Many attempts have been made to identify him, but none has seemed conclusive - until now. As well as proposing a solution to the famous pro