The Last Messiah
By: Peter Wessel Zapffe
4.32
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human …
Want to Read"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail. Not merely his own day could he see, the graveyards wrung themselves before his gaze, the laments of sunken millennia wailed against him from the ghastly decaying shapes, the earth-turned dreams of mothers. Future’s curtain unravelled itself to reveal a nightmare of endless repetition, a senseless squander of organic material. The suffering of human billions makes its entrance into him through the gateway of compassion, from all that happen arises a laughter to mock the demand for justice, his profoundest ordering principle."-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail. Not merely his own day could he see, the graveyards wrung themselves before his gaze, the laments of sunken millennia wailed against him from the ghastly decaying shapes, the earth-turned dreams of mothers. Future’s curtain unravelled itself to reveal a nightmare of endless repetition, a senseless squander of organic material. The suffering of human billions makes its entrance into him through the gateway of compassion, from all that happen arises a laughter to mock the demand for justice, his profoundest ordering principle."-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail. Not merely his own day could he see, the graveyards wrung themselves before his gaze, the laments of sunken millennia wailed against him from the ghastly decaying shapes, the earth-turned dreams of mothers. Future’s curtain unravelled itself to reveal a nightmare of endless repetition, a senseless squander of organic material. The suffering of human billions makes its entrance into him through the gateway of compassion, from all that happen arises a laughter to mock the demand for justice, his profoundest ordering principle."-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has grasped life in its cosmic context, and whose agony is the agony of the world. But such a rising wail will assail him from all the people of the earth, crying for his thousandfold execution, when his voice blankets the world like a shroud, and his peculiar message is heard for the first and last time: The life on many worlds is like a rushing river, but the life on this world is like a stagnant puddle and a backwater.The mark of annihilation is written on thy brow. How long will ye mill about on the edge? But there is one victory and one crown, and one salvation and one answer: Know thyselves; be unfruitful and let there be peace on Earth after thy passing. "-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
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1. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
By: John Gray
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
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"Outside of science, progress is simply a myth."-John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
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"In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability."-John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
2. The Ego and Its Own
By: Max Stirner , David Leopold
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more
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"Political liberty,"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"A minha causa é a causa de nada."-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
3. Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
By: Sarah Perry
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Millions of years ago, humans just happened. Accidents of environment and genetics contributed to t… read more
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4. God Sees the Truth, but Waits
By: Leo Tolstoy
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. On the Heights of Despair
By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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6. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
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Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
By: Horace McCoy
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Essays and Aphorisms
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , R.J. Hollingdale
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action… read more
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9. The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: David Benatar
0.00
Format: None pages,
Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be… read more
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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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12. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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13. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
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"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
14. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
By: David Benatar
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Better Never to Have Beenargues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into… read more
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15. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
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16. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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17. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
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18. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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19. The Last Messiah
By: Peter Wessel Zapffe
4.32
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too
By: Exurb1a
4.29
Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.19
Format: None pages, None
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