Jacob Needleman





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Jacob Needleman is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, former Visiting Professor at Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership in Monterrey, Mexico, and former Director of the Center for the study of New Religions at The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He was educated in philosophy at Harvard, Yale and the University of Freiburg, Germany. He has also served as Research Associate at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, as a Research Fellow at Union Theological Seminary, as Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of California Medical School and as guest Professor of Religious Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris (1992).


Average rating: 3.99 · 1,222 ratings · 138 reviews · 49 distinct works
The Essential Marcus Aurelius
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Money and the Meaning of Life
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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The American Soul: Rediscov...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2003
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Why Can't We Be Good?
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Lost Christiantiy
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
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What Is God?
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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The Heart of Philosophy
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions
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Time and the Soul
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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The American Soul: TK
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2002
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Gurdjieff
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997
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