The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. ...Show more
Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (German: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister) is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims (Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche), was published in 18 ...Show more
Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster by C.G. Jung
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Extracted from Volume 9, Part I. Includes "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," "Concerning Rebirth," "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," and "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure."
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung; Kathleen Raine (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis."
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Vintage Classics
In its search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, the book might be considered an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's.
Replace Me by Amber Husain
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this wide-ranging and intellectually lively essay, Amber Husain asks if our obsession with replacement is the very thing that is keeping the world in stasis. And, if so, with what might we replace our obsession with replacement? With references spanning the avant-garde art tec--futurism, and Effectiv ...Show more
Sub-Human - A 21st-Century Ethic; on Animals, Collective Liberation, and Us All by Emma Hakansson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Sub-Human delves into what it means to be an animal, how our view of other animals impacts our view of other people, oppressions, and the planet, how we got here, as well as how we can move forward together. When we accept oppression of some, we feed the oppression of others, and we make space for dom ...Show more
Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers by Sigmund Freud; Joan Riviere (Translator); Lisa Appignanesi (Contribution by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and PapersThis collection focuses in on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. Including his papers on met ...Show more
On Gaslighting by Kate Abramson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Insights: Philosophy in Focus Ser.
A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting "Gaslighting" is suddenly in everyone's vocabulary. It's written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in "Gaslighting" by The Chicks). It's become shorthand for being manipulated by someone who insists that up is down, ...Show more
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. C ...Show more