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Eidinow John Livres

    John Eidinow crée des récits qui plongent dans les affrontements intenses entre esprits brillants, explorant les conflits profonds qui découlent d'un grand intellect. Son premier roman, "Another Day", plonge dans un monde en guerre d'amour, de tromperie et d'espionnage durant les premiers mois de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Auparavant, Eidinow a perfectionné ses talents de conteur en tant que présentateur et intervieweur pour BBC Radio, produisant des documentaires sur des sujets historiques et contemporains. Son œuvre offre un aperçu captivant de l'interaction complexe des relations humaines et des moments historiques marquants.

    Esther Simpson
    Wittgenstein's Poker

    • Wittgenstein's Poker

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

      • 267pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      3,6(75)Évaluer

      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