The lives of philosophers
1. 
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx
by:
Karl Popper
4.08 avg rating — 2,312 ratings 
5. 
Men of Ideas: Some Creators of Contemporary Philosophy
by:
Bryan Magee
4.04 avg rating — 229 ratings 5. 
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography
by:
Nick Thorkelson
3.80 avg rating — 90 ratings 
7. 
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.27 avg rating — 703 ratings 
9. 
Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk
by:
Don Lattin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 96 ratings 
14. 
After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings
by:
Karl Popper
3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings 14. 
Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Vol. 1
by:
Fred Van Lente
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 534 ratings 
16. 
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy 3.93 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
18. 
Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities (64) (For Kids series) 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
20. 
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
by:
Bettany Hughes
4.01 avg rating — 1,051 ratings 22. 
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by:
Sarah Bakewell
4.02 avg rating — 10,619 ratings 23. 
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by:
Will Durant
4.15 avg rating — 17,693 ratings 24. 
24. 
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
by:
Stuart Jeffries
4.08 avg rating — 1,504 ratings 
26. 
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) 3.99 avg rating — 2,876 ratings
28. 
Lost Masters: Rediscovering the Mysticism of the Ancient Greek Philosophers
by:
Linda Johnsen
4.29 avg rating — 90 ratings 30. 
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
by:
David Edmonds
3.78 avg rating — 3,241 ratings 
32. 
Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
35. 
Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919-1929 3.93 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
36. 
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
by:
David Edmonds
4.06 avg rating — 480 ratings 37. 
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
by:
Isaiah Berlin
4.03 avg rating — 2,294 ratings 
