Review:Before you purchase this book know what it is not. This is not a comprehensive listing of every influential economist of the past 200 years. This is not an assessment of capitalism or an endorsement of any one point of view on political economy.

What this book is is a look at various influential economic thinkers of the past 200 years and an attempt to put their ideas regarding economics into the context of the worlds that they lived in. What I liked about this book was not that it com... Read more

Review:We think so often about being right....Shulz caused me to think about wrongness in a different light. She included several important stories about people who were wrong and eventually recognized it, and the powerful change that occurred as a result. This is a book I will read again soon. Read more

Review:Justin O'Brien's translation reads like a literal translation of a Chinese instruction manual to some piece of imported equipment rather than of one who undestands the substance of the subject. Compare this to the translation of The Stranger by Mathew Ward which is excellent and clearly conveys the meaning of the material. O'Brien's translation is a disservice to Camus. Read more

Review:This book is really a propaganda piece whose primary objective was to rouse French people to resist German occupiers. Published under enemy censorship, it reads between the lines as an appeal to French guilt about not facing up to their responsibilities. Sartre risked his life in the underground and hoped that his fellow countrymen would get the same message. It was written deliberately in a pseudo-Germanic, Heidegger-type complicated style to fool German censors into thinking that it was a w... Read more

Review:This book had some good examples and memorable stories that demonstrated the points he was trying to make, however I would have liked more practical exercises to use with students or clients on how to improve their willpower and self control. Read more

Review:Although he presents some important ideas in this too-big work, Sartre the closet Cartesian, whose systematization of existential thought make Camus and Marcel abandon the label altogether, writes so badly that even his idol Heidegger seems readable by comparison. You're better off with someone else's summary of Sartre's philosophical thought; this book isn't worth the effort. Read more

Review:I became interested in Heidegger because of his influence on Karl Rahner's earlier work, such as Spirit in the World. I am just finishing my second reading of Being and Time. Sometimes I think I am reading a classic and other times reductionism par excellence. Of course, the Rahnerian in me would point out Heidegger's denial of Absolute Being and thus a person's pre-apprehension of Being as the basis of inquiry and categorical knowledge. So, one wonders about the coherence and unity of Heidegger... Read more

Review:As an Australian interested in American history and ideas, this was an interesting book for me. Menand manages to blend the lives of four very different people to tell a story of the development of a school of thought called pragmatism. Some of his writing is exceptional with digressions into the fascinating social history of the United States following the civil war. The way he manages to combine topics diverse as spiritualism, mathematics, document forgery and race relations into a single narr... Read more

Review:Thomas Ligotti is a gifted and eloquent author, one whose works of fiction I admire. As far as his philosophy as a philosophy- as a lay reader I am not qualified to pass judgement. But this book has given me a lot to think about. I plan on reading it again. If you are new to his work, I would suggest reading his short fiction first, as he there introduces themes he develops effectively here. Read more

Review:This is a new translation (2006) of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. I hope someone qualified might soon comment on the merits or significance of this new translation. Meanwhile, the Editorial Review information offered for this book comes from an earlier edition of a different translation of Freud's work, FWIW. And the second paragraph in the editorial review prelim is entirely inappropriate--it's for another book altogether.

I give Freud's book (not the translation) a low rating bec... Read more