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| Born in Basle, Switzerland in 1907, Frithjof Schuon was the twentieth century's pre-eminent spokesman for the perennialist school of comparative religious thought.
The leitmotif of Schuon's work was foreshadowed in an encounter during his youth with a marabout who had accompanied some members of his Senegalese village....[more] |
| James Adovasio is the founder and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania. |
| Russell Ash is best known as the creator and compiler of Top 10 of Everything (annual, 1989–) and related titles (Hamlyn, UK; Sterling, USA, and in various editions around the world). He has also written numerous books on art (principally 19th-century painters), popular reference (such as his annual Whitaker's World of....[more] |
| Alan Axelrod was born on August 25, 1952, in New York. He was educated at Northeastern Illinois University and University of Iowa. He is a leading writer about American history, and is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History. In his books, Axelrod presents the facts, details, and faces that have he....[more] |
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Daniel Desbiens was born in Chicoutimi, Canada, in 1954. Autodidact writer, he has a scientific education ( UQAC Engineering degree ). He worked in many domains : including in schools, with activities for the young, in civil engineering with building and in office work, in workshop and within the cultural ....[more] |
| Jurgen Habermas is a German sociologist who studied at the universities of Gottingen, Zurich, and Bonn. He taught at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, and Heidelberg before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. His works, widely translated, have made him one of the most influential social theorists....[more] |
| Adrian lives in North London, England, and was once the leader of the Rainbow churches, and is still very involved internationally with them in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, France, Norway, the USA and Canada, usually with church leadership teams overseas and also in the UK. He has been married for 40 years to Pauline....[more] |
| Josef Meri is an American-born scholar of Medieval Islamic history, the history of religions and interfaith relations. Born in Chicago, Dr. Meri has travelled extensively and has lived in Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, London, and Oxford. He has spent the last five years in Amman, Jordan affiliated to the Royal Aal al-Bay....[more] |
| The bulk of my scholarship in early-modern French studies (~1600 to ~1800) can be divided into three interdisciplinary areas, with a considerable amount of overlap between areas: music and opera, theories of language, and aesthetics. Music and opera are central to my first two books, both of which were published in (di....[more] |
| Robert M. Wallace's major publication is _Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God_ (2005). He is also known for his translations of and introductions to Hans Blumenberg's major works (_The Legitimacy of the Modern Age_, etc.) and works of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Odo Marquard. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Corn....[more] |
| I grew up in Ithaca, New York, where I spent most of my time reading children's books. I loved fantasy, and I especially loved fairy tales. In high school I started working in the children's room of the public library, and I kept reading fairy tales. After college, I came to New York City and got a job in children's bo....[more] |
| Best known for his contributions to the field of philosophy but also a music composer and critic, Theodor Adorno proved popular culture was a phenomenon worth analyzing. This German-born author, who lived from September 11, 1903 to August 6, 1969, was a member of the Frankfurt School, along with such other luminaries s....[more] |
| Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was German Jewish self-described political theorist. She is considered by many to be one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Arendt’s subject matter revolved around political theory, modernity, and the philosophy of history. She....[more] |
| Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic. He is best known for the lyric poems “Dover Beach” (1867), “The Scholar-Gipsy” (1853), the commemorative poem “Thyrsis” (1865), a series of essays called Culture and Anarchy, and Literature and Dogma.
Arnold was born at Laleham on ....[more] |
| Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more] |
| Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 - died June 13, 1965)— died June 13, 1965) Buber born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in Jerusalem. He was the son of Carl Buber and Elise Wurgast, who divorced when he was three years old, and for the next ten years he was raised by his grandparents, Solomon and Adele Buber. He was....[more] |
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