Top 10 Books about great thinkers (Guardian)
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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.
This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15901 | St. Augustine | Rebecca West | 1933 | British | English | |
| 17122 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Ray Monk | 1990 | British | English | |
| 17122 | At Home With André And Simone Weil | Sylvie Weil | 2009 | Unknown | French | |
| 17122 | Kant | Manfred Kuehn | 2001 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Simone De Beauvoir | Toril Moi | 2008 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Frantz Fanon | David Macey | 2001 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Georges Perec | David Bellos | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 6260 | At The Existentialist Café | Sarah Bakewell | 2016 | British | English | |
| 17122 | Angela Davis | Angela Davis | 1974 | American | English | |
| 8765 | War Diaries | Jean Paul Sartre | 1940 | French | French |