Clare Carlisle

Transcendence for Beginners (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A lyrical work of philosophy that draws from the work of Spinoza, George Eliot, biographers, memoirists, and more to examine how wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual human lives. Transcendence for Beginners is an innovative book about philosophy and life writing, exploring how each practice might complement the other and so contribute to a greater understanding of human existence. In six short chapters, guided by a pantheon of exemplars drawn from European and Indian traditions as well as her own experience as a biographer and philosopher, Clare Carlisle examines how deep, genuine wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual lives. Animated by the spirit of enquiry and the desire to share its rewards, Transcendence for Beginners is a generous, enlivening work by one of the UK's most original thinkers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York Review Books
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798896230151
• Artikelnr.: 74883841

Autorenporträt

Clare Carlisle is the author of eight books on philosophy and philosophers, including Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard and The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life, which won the 2024 PEN Prize for Biography. Carlisle grew up in Manchester, studied philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, and now lives in London. She is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London.