Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Ecology of Wisdom by Arne Naess
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.' Philosopher, mountaineer, activist and visionary, Arne Naess's belief that all living things have value made him one of the most inspirational figures in the environmental movement. ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle w ...Show more
Socrates - A Very Short Introduction by C C W Taylor
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions | Reading Level: very good
Socrates wrote nothing himself, and is known to us only via the writings of others. This book examines the relation of these portrayals, especially Plato's, to the historical person, and also discusses the significance of Socrates' thought to the development of Western philosophy.
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century.
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