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Jon Agar
Jon Agar (born 1999)

philosopher, historian

  • University of Cambridge, University of Kent

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Turing and the Universal Machine
Constant touch
Science in the twentieth century and beyond
The Government Machine
Science and spectacle
Making space for science
Constant touch
Making Space For Science
Science Policy under Thatcher
Science Policy under Thatcher
Science in the 20th Century and Beyond
Histories of technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Willem van Reijen
Willem van Reijen (1938-2012)

sociologist, philosopher

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Grand Hotel Abgrund
Aufenthalte und Passagen
Rationales Handeln und Gesellschaftstheorie
Adorno zur Einführung
De onvoltooide rede
Filosofie als kritiek
Het recht van de moraal
Vierzig Jahre Flaschenpost: "Dialektik der Aufklärung," 1947-1987 (German Edition)
Geteilte Sprache
Ruinen des Denkens, Denken in Ruinen
Die authentische Kritik der Moderne
Horkheimer zur Einführung
Geschichte - Politik - Philosophie
Subjectivity
Heilsversprechen
Die Frage nach dem Subjekt
Der Schwarzwald und Paris
Walter Benjamin
Bürgergesellschaft, Recht und Demokratie.
Martin Heidegger
Verstehen der Endlichkeit
Kennis en werkelijkheid
Modernen versus postmodernen
Allegorie und Melancholie
Mihailo Marković
Mihailo Marković (1923-2010)

philosopher

  • University College London, University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

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Juriš na nebo
Друштвено-политичка делатност Јована Цвијића
Juriš na nebo
From affluence to praxis; philosophy and social criticism
Dialectical theory of meaning
The contemporary Marx
Yugoslavia
Self-governing socialism
Praxis
Osnovi marksističkog pogleda na svet
SRBIJA U KRIZI
Marxist humanism and ethics
Dialektik der Praxis
On the legal institutions of socialist democracy
Filozofski osnovi nauke
Društveno-politička misao Njegoša
Democratic socialism
Dijalektička teorija značenja
Dialektik der Praxis [von] Mihailo Marković
Humanizam i dijalektika
Nacionalni i državni prioriteti
Sloboda i praksa
Osnovi marksističkog pogleda na svet
Kako je govorio Mihailo Marković
Revizija filozofskikh osnova marksizma u Sovjetskom Savezu
Intelektualci i društvena stvarnost
Društvena misao na granici milenijuma
Novovekovni srpski mislioci
Levica danas u Srbiji i svetu
Praxis, Yugoslav essays in the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences
Levica danas u Srbiji i svetu
Društvena i politička misao i delatnost Vladimira Jovanovića
The contemporary Marx
Dialectical theory of meaning
Život i delo Svetozara Markovića
Gennaro Sasso
Gennaro Sasso (born 1928)

philosopher, politician

  • Sapienza University of Rome

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Le autobiografie di Dante
Profilo di Federico Chabod
Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli e gli antichi e altri saggi
Machiavelli e Cesare Borgia
Il progresso e la morte
Tempo, evento, divenire
Il guardiano della storiografia
Le Porcellane Europee Della Collezione de Tschudy
Il principio, le cose
Storia, filosofia e letteratura
Filosofia e idealismo
Machiavelli e Cesare Borgia
Essere e negazione
La potenza e l'atto
Il pensiero politico di Niccolo Machiavelli
Per invigilare me stesso
Variazioni sulla storia di una rivista italiana
In margine al V centenario di Machiavelli
Ernesto De Martino fra religione e filosofia
Machiavelli e i detrattori antichi e nuovi di Roma
Tramonto di un mito
La storia d'Italia di Benedetto Croce
La verità, l'opinione
Dante, Guido e Francesca
Niccolò Machiavelli, storia del suo pensiero politico
Dante, l'imperatore e Aristotele
Studi su Machiavelli
L' illusione della dialettica
Per Francesco Guicciardini
La fedeltà e l'esperimento
Le due Italie di Giovanni Gentile
Discorsi di Palazzo Filomarino
L'essere e le differenze
Discorsi di Palazzo Filomarino
Il logo, la morte
Dante
L' essere e le differenze
Il logo, la morte
Tramonto di un mito
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)

playwright, journalist, philosopher, politician

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Ecrits politiques
Œuvres de la citoyenne de Gouges, en deux volumes, formant le recueil de ses ouvrages dramatiques et politiques, se trouvent chez le Jay, père, rue neuve des Petits-Champs, et chez les marchands de nouveautés
Œuvres
Declaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
A Tale of Two Cities and Related Readings
Mémoire de Madame de Valmont, 1788
Écrits politiques 1788-1791
Politische Schriften in Auswahl
Théâtre politique
L' esclavage des nègres, ou, L'heureux naufrage
Le prince philosophe. Conte oriental 1792
Avis pressant
Lettre aux représentants de la nation
L' esclavage des noirs, ou L'heureux naufrage
L' esprit françois
Adresse au roi
Le prince philosophe, 1792
The rights of woman
Œuvres complètes
Euvres (Collection "Mille et une femmes")
Le couvent, ou les voeux forcés
Lettre a Monseigneur le duc d'Orleans, premier prince du sang
l' entrée de Dumourier à Bruxelles, ou les vivandiers
L' entrée de Dumourier a Bruxelles, ou, Les vivandiers
Denkschrift der Madame de Valmont =
Lettre au peuple, ou, Projet d'une caisse patriotique
Olympe de Gouges aux enfers
Œuvres de Madame de Gouges ...
Adresse au roi
Lettres
Lettre au peuple ; Remarques patriotiques
Pour sauver la patrie, il faut respecter les trois ordres, c'est le seul moyen de conciliation qui nous reste
Se ance royale
Le bon sens franc ʹois, ou, L'apologie des vrais nobles
Dialogue alle gorique entre la France et la Ve rite , de die aux E tats-ge ne raux
Adresse au Don Quichotte du Nord
Correspondance de la cour
Avis pressant, ou, Re ponse a mes calomniateurs
Les droits de la femme
Avis pressant a la Convention
Repentir de Madame de Gouges
Sera-t-il roi, ne le sera-t-il pas?
Remarques patriotiques
Les fanto mes de l'opinion publique
Le cri du sage
Discours de l'aveugle aux Franc ʹois
L'esprit franc ʹois, ou, Proble me a re soudre sur le labyrinthe de divers complots
Mensch und Bürgerin
La Ilustración olvidada
Mes v¿ux sont remplis, ou, Le don patriotique
Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816)

philosopher, librarian, historian, military personnel, essayist, economist, cleric, sociologist, chaplain

  • University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews

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Biographical sketch
An essay on the history of civil society
The history of the progress and termination of the Roman republic
Institutes of moral philosophy
The morality of stage-plays seriously considered
Sister Peg
The correspondence of Adam Ferguson
Institutes of moral philosophy, 1773
Remarks on Dr. Price's Observations on the nature of civil liberty, &c
Reflections previous to the establishment of a militia
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
The history of the proceedings in the case of Margaret, commonly called PEG, only lawful sister to John Bull, esq
An essay on the history of the civil society
Adam Ferguson
Principles of moral and political science
Institutes of Moral Philosophy for the use of Students in the College of Edinburgh (Thoemmes Press - Scottish Thought and Culture, 1750-1850)
Ferguson
The History Of The Progress And Termination Of The Roman Republic V5
Abhandlung über die Geschichte der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft
ADAM FERGUSON, Saggio sulla storia della società civile (ed. by Alessandra Attanasio)
Essai sur l'histoire de la société civile
Remarks on a pamphlet lately published by Dr. Price
The unpublished essays of Adam Ferguson
The history of the progress and termination of the Roman Republic
An essay on the history of civil society, 1767
Grundsaetze der Moralphilosophie (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of British Philosophers)
The history of the proceedings in the case of Margaret
The manuscripts of Adam Ferguson
Ideologie nella rivoluzione industriale
ADAM FERGUSON, Saggio sulla storia della società civile (ed. by Alessandra Attanasio)
Principles of Moral and Political Science: Being Chiefly a Retrospect of Lectures Delivered in ..
Principles of moral and political science, 1792
ADAM FERGUSON, Saggio sulla storia della società civile (ed. by Alessandra Attanasio)
Analysis of pneumatics and moral philosophy
Essay on the History of Civil Society
Abhandlung über die Geschichte der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft
Essai sur l'histoire de la société civile
Shimin shakaishi
Institutes of moral philosophy
Essay on the history of civil society
An essay on the history of civil society
Versuch über die Geschichte der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft
Reflections previous to the establishment of a militia
Remarks on Dr. Price's Observations on the nature of civil liberty, &c
Euclides da Cunha
Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909)

journalist, engineer, military personnel, sociologist, poet, botanist, historian, physicist, philosopher, geographer, geologist, zoologist, naturalist

  • Instituto Militar de Engenharia

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Castro Alves e seu tempo
Os sertões
Perú versus Bolivia
Rebellion in the backlands (Os sertoes)
Rebellion in the backlands
Rebellion in the Backlands
The Amazon
Diário de uma expedição
Portuguese self-taught (Thimm's system)
Hautes terres
Contrastes e confrontos
Krieg im Sertao
Los Sertones
Canudos (diario de uma expedição)
Canudos e outros temas
Contrastes e confrontos
Los Sertones
Euclydes da Cunha a seus amigos
Rebellion in the backlands
Os Sertoes
Euclides da Cunha
Um paraíso perdido
Rebellion in the backlands = Os sertões
Rebellion in the backlands (Os sertoes)
Sertões, luz & trevas
Antologia
Trechos escolhidos
Obra completa organizada sob a direcão de Afrânio Coutinho
Os sertões [por] Euclides da Cunha
Revolt in the backlands
Os sertões
Euclides da Cunha, história
Canudos e inéditos [por] Euclides da Cunha
Revolt in the backlands
Trabalhos esparsos
Canudos e inéditos
Portuguese self-taught
Rebellion in the backlands (Os sertões) Translated by Samuel Putnam
Backlands
Rebellion in the backlands
Escritos de Euclides da Cunha
Os sertões (campanha de Canudos)
Antologia euclidiana [por] Paulo Dantas com a colaboração de Dermal Camergo Monfrê, Naief Sáfady [e] Oswaldo Galotti
Caderneta de campo
Antologia euclidiana
Schön wie ein Ja in einem Saal voller Nein
Euclides da Cunha
À margem da história
Caderneta de campo
Um paraíso perdido
Os serto es
Peru versus Bolívia
Obra completa
O episódio de Canudos
À margem da história
Los sertones
Contrastes e confrontos
Sertoes
Os serto es
Perú versus Bolivia
Correspondência de Euclides da Cunha (ativa)
Poesia reunida
Trechos escolhidos
Backlands
Ensaios e inéditos
Los sertones
Los sertones
Euclides da Cunha e as secas
Sertões
Euclides socialista
Amazônia, um paraíso perdido
José Vasconcelos
José Vasconcelos (1881-1959)

philosopher, politician, lawyer

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Ulises criollo
A Mexican Ulysses
José Vasconcelos
Memorias
José Vasconcelos y la universidad
Hernán Cortés, creador de la nacionalidad
José Vasconcelos
Primeros recuerdos
El desastre ; El proconsulado
The cosmic race
La raza cósmica
La raza cosmica
Primeros recuerdos
Manuel de filosofía
El desastre
El proconsulado
Aspects of Mexican civilization
Indología
Bolivarismo y monroísmo
La tormenta
Filosofía estética
El realismo científico ..
La flama
Aspects of Mexican civilization
Pensamientos inéditos por G. Nicotra di Leopoldo
La Tormenta (Literna Magica, 27)
Qué es la revolucion
Estudios indostanicos
Hernán Cortés, creador de la nacionalidad
La raza cósmica
Herman Cortes, creador de la nacionalidad
La Cita
Obra selecta
Ulises criollo
Breve historia de Mixico ..
Filosofia estética
Temas contemporáneos
La otra raza cósmica
Ulises criollo
The cosmic race
Bolivarismo y monroísmo
Antología de textos sobre educación
Logica organica
Cartas políticas de José Vasconcelos
La raza cosmica
La raza cosmica
Breve historia de Mexico (Linterna Magica)
Bolivarismo y monroismo
Estética
La raza cósmica
La flama
Breve historia de México
Simón Bolivar (interpretación)
Vasconcelos
Cuatro visiones de Santo Domingo
La raza cosmica
A Mexican Ulysses, an autobiography
Cartas políticas de José Vasconcelos
De la lírica popular tradicional mexicana
La raza co smica
Historia del pensamiento filosófico
La sonata magica
Manuscrito del poema "Aurora y transfiguración" de José de Vasconcelos
El desastre, tercera parte de Ulises criollo, continuación de La tormenta
DISCURSO PRONUNCIADO POR SU AUTOR EL DIA DEL MAESTRO
Hernán Cortés
Estética
Aspects of Mexican civilization
Geopolítica de Tabasco
La tormenta
Apuntes para la historia de México, desde la conquista hasta la revolución de 1910
MEMORIAS I
El realismo científico ..
Estudios indostánicos
Los robachicos
Don Evaristo Madero
El proconsulado
En el ocaso de mi vida
La flama
MEMORIAS II
Ulises criollo
El pensamiento latinoamericano
Mi Planta de Naranja-Lima
Breve historia de México
La raza cósmica
El asesinato de Madero
Páginas escogidas
La amistad en el dolor
La raza cosmica
Ética
Obras completas
Lógica orgánica
Ulises Criollo
Ideario de acción ..
Etica
La Raza cósmica
Tratado de metafísica
Indologia
De Robinsón a Odiseo
Manual de filosofía
La sonata mágica
Divagaciones literarias
Letanías del atardecer
Cuentos
Qué es la revolución
El viento de Bagdad
Pesimismo alegre
La cita
La sonata mágica
El monismo estético, ensayos
Pesimismo heroico