The Idea of the Holy
By: Rudolf Otto , John Wilfred Harvey
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since the English translation first appeared in 1923, Rudolf Otto's volume has established itself a…
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1. Europe: A History
By: Norman Davies
4.20
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Nor… read more
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- nonfiction
"Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly."-Norman Davies, Europe: A History
"An ambassador’, quipped Sir Henry Wootton, ‘is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."-Norman Davies, Europe: A History
"The formula Muscovy + Ukraine = Russia does not feature in the Russians’ own version of their history; but it is fundamental."-Norman Davies, Europe: A History
"For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of Russia."-Norman Davies, Europe: A History
2. The Two Cultures
By: C.P. Snow , Stefan Collini
3.66
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a dangerous process"-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
"Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other."-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
"There is no getting away from it. It is technically possible to carry out the scientific revolution in India, Africa, South-east Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, within fifty years. There is no …"-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
"But what about the other side? They are impoverished too—perhaps more seriously, because they are vainer about it. They still like to pretend that the traditional culture is the whole of ‘culture’, a…"-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
3. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- theology
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience
By: William James
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered in Edinburgh 1901/2 "I am neither a theolo… read more
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- theology
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
5. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
By: Adam Phillips , Edmund Burke
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. 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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- theology
- christianity
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
By: Carol Cosman , Émile Durkheim , None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life(1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discoverin… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
8. The Idea of the Holy
By: Rudolf Otto , John Wilfred Harvey
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since the English translation first appeared in 1923, Rudolf Otto's volume has established itself a… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- mysticism
9. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
10. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. Six Characters in Search of an Author
By: Luigi Pirandello , Edward Storer
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires t… read more
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12. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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13. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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- philosophy
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
14. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more
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15. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more
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16. Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors
By: Marquis de Sade , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel , Tomer Hanuka
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Philosophy of the Boudoirfollows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate the fifteen-year-old Eugeni… read more
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17. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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- christianity
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- theology
"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
18. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
By: Douglas Murray
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Strange Death of Europeis a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the ac… read more
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19. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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20. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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21. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
