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Eidinow John Knihy

    John Eidinow je autorom troch kníh, ktoré skúmajú búrlivé stretávanie mužov s titánskymi darmi. Jeho debutový román „Another Day“ sa ponoril do sveta lásky, klamstva a špionáže v úvodných mesiacoch druhej svetovej vojny. Predtým Eidinow pracoval ako moderátor a redaktor pre BBC Radio 4 a World Service, kde sa venoval spravodajstvu, aktuálnym udalostiam a dokumentárnym filmom zameraným na historické a súčasné témy. Jeho tvorba sa vyznačuje hlbokým ponorom do ľudských vzťahov a historických udalostí.

    Esther Simpson
    Wittgenstein's Poker

    • Wittgenstein's Poker

      The Story of a Ten-minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

      • 267 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania
      3,6(75)Ohodnotiť

      Wittgenstein's Poker is an engaging mixture of philosophy, history, biography and detection. It ranges from the place of assimilated Jews in fin-de-siegrave;cle Vienna, to what happens to memory under stress, to a vivid portrait of Cambridge and its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell (who acted as umpire). At the centre of the story stand the philosophers themselves, proud, irascible, larger than life, and spoiling for a fight. 'Those 10 minutes shook the world of Western philosophy literally to its foundations . . . Edmonds and Eidinow have a very good story to tell, and they tell it wonderfully well.' Irish Times 'Excellent . . . If people have recently been led to think of philosophy solely in terms of its consolations, a kind of chicken soup for the soul, this is the book to cure them all.' Sunday Times

      Wittgenstein's Poker

    • Esther Simpson

      The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered and feted with Nobel Prizes, knighthoods and admiration. But who was the woman who saved them and why has history forgotten her?

      Esther Simpson