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Aldous Huxley by Jake Poller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
"An outstanding book."--James Sexton "A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals."--Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. T ...Show more
Arthur Schopenhauer by Peter B. Lewis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Critical Lives
Arthur Schopenhauer devoted his adult life to the articulation of a philosophy for the world, a philosophy that would benefit mankind by providing a solution to the riddle of existence. Often considered a thoroughgoing pessimist, Schopenhauer in fact advocated ways - via artistic, moral and ascetic form ...Show more
Benjamin Franklin by Kevin J. Hayes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
An action-packed retelling of the life and work of the polymath and so-called First American, Benjamin Franklin. All Benjamin Franklin biographers face a major challenge: they must compete with their subject. In one of the greatest autobiographies in world literature, Franklin has already told his own s ...Show more
Carl Jung by Paul Bishop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961), as well as being one of the pioneers of psychology, is one of the most controversial of thinkers: in spite of being largely responsible for the introduction of now-familiar psychological terms such as 'extrovert' and 'introvert', Jung has often been sidelined, remaining o ...Show more
Erik Satie by Mary E. Davis
$34.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Critical Lives
A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as The Velvet Gentleman for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentiet ...Show more
Frantz Fanon by James S. Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A biography of the revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist. Doctor, militant, essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist, Frantz Fanon sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century culture as he embodied a new kind of intellectual. Born in colonial Martinique, he fought for France durin ...Show more
Günter Grass by Julian Preece
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
G nter Grass was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain best-sellers across the world. The Tin Drum was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979, and the memoir Peeling the Onion astounded readers by revealing Grass had been drafted into the military wing of ...Show more
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with ...Show more
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Jeremy Adler
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Category: No Category | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe's major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egm ...Show more
John Ashbery by Jess Cotton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A critical biography of America's most influential postmodern poet. Mysterious, esoteric, and baffling, John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous, even charming, and ever responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This ...Show more
John Berger by Andy Merrifield
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Critical Lives
With a career in literature and art spanning more than sixty years, John Berger is characterized by an independent and anti-institutional approach to creativity. Working in a range of media including novels, painting, essays and scriptwriting, Berger's voice has resounded through mainstream and alternat ...Show more
John Cage by Rob Haskins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Critical Lives
John Cage's contribution to twentieth-century music, literature and art not only established his place as a leading figure in the post-war avant-garde, but also guaranteed his enduring controversy. His emphasis on chance, as opposed to intention, rejected traditional artistic methods and caused uproar a ...Show more