What Is Existentialism?
By: Simone de Beauvoir
3.91
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and …
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1. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
2. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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3. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
4. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
By: Sylvia Plath
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anythin… read more
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5. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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6. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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7. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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9. Man Alone with Himself
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets … read more
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10. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in New England woods remains an inspirat… read more
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11. The Grand Inquisitor
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.75
Format: None pages,
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brother… read more
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12. Books v. Cigarettes
By: George Orwell
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's … read more
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13. Why I Am so Clever
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Why do I know a few morethings? Why am I so clever altogether?' Self-celebrating and self-mocking … read more
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14. Reflections on the Guillotine
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An essay on capital punishment by the 1957 Nobel Prize winner. read more
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15. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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16. Create Dangerously
By: Albert Camus
3.84
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more
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"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously
17. Anarchist Communism (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
3.85
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
The humane yet devastating critique of how modern society is organized with the brutal few clinging… read more
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18. Die Freiheit, frei zu sein
By: Hannah Arendt
3.76
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.« Was ist Freiheit, und was b… read more
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19. What Is Existentialism?
By: Simone de Beauvoir
3.91
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and … read more
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- womens
20. God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, … read more
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21. Three Japanese Buddhist Monks (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Saigyō
3.81
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the b… read more
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