Richard Schain

Landesman's Journal

Meditations of a Forest Philosopher

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Produktbeschreibung

"Intellectual journal of a highly perceptive philosopher who has left civilization for contemplation in the forest. He struggles to rationally comprehend his metaphysical intuitions of the soul. He explains and advances the thought of some of his most influential predecessors: Berdyaev, Emerson, William James, Pessoa, Senancour, Thoreau and, Nietzsche"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paragon House Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781557789228
• ISBN-10: 1557789223
• Artikelnr.: 44499333

Autorenporträt

The author obtained A.B. (philosophy) and M.D. degrees from New York University. He trained in neurology at the Yale Medical Center, later serving as professor of neurology and psychiatry at UCLA. He embarked on his life as an independent philosopher in 1980 with the writing of Affirmations of Reality (1982) and Philosophical Artwork (1983). Later writings include Souls Exist (1989, 2013), The Legend of Nietzsche's Syphilis (2001), Reverence for the Soul (2001), Behold the Philosopher (2007), Interior Lights (2012), and Toward an Existential Philosophy of the Soul (2014). Essays appearing in the electronic journal 'Philosophy Pathways' were published as Radical Metaphysics (2002) and In Love with Eternity (2006). All Schain's philosophical writings deal with the significance of the interior self, which is called the soul. Richard Schain was awarded Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award, Silver, in Philosophy.