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Guardian, 10 Books

"The very best intellectual biographies enrich our understanding of great thinkers by situating them in a time and a place, and by exploring how they negotiate the difficult art of living through the products of their minds. Here are 10 wonderful books that thread together the lives and ideas of their thinkers in a way that intensifies our understanding of each."

By Peter Salmon, author of An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida. He has received the Writer's Awards from the Arts Council of England and teaches creative writing.

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