Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900
By: Frederick C. Beiser
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the …
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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. The Courage to Be
By: Paul Tillich , Peter J. Gomes
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of… read more
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"Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Le courage d'être s'enracine dans le Dieu qui apparaît quand Dieu a disparu dans l'angoisse du doute."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
"Reasoning as a limited cognitive function, detached from the personal center, never could create courage. One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away."-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
3. 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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4. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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5. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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6. Drawn and Quartered
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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7. On the Heights of Despair
By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this b… read more
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8. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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9. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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10. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman
4.15
Format: 32 pages,
Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more
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11. Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more
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12. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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13. 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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14. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
15. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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16. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more
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"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
17. A Country Doctor
By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Written during the winter of 1916-17 when Kafka was living in one of the tiny houses on Golden Lane… read more
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18. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
By: Alan W. Watts
0.00
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our… read more
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19. 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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20. Le feu follet suivi de Adieu à Gonzague
By: Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
3.68
Format: 290 pages,
<>Alain regresa a la clinica de desintoxicacion despues de un agitado reencuentro con su amante, Ly… read more
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21. 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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22. Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
By: John T. Cacioppo , William Patrick
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
John T. Cacioppo's groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psycho… read more
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23. A Confession
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.10
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more
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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
24. 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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25. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
By: Albert Camus
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more
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26. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more
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27. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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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
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
28. The Precipice
By: Toby Ord
4.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central ch… read more
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"If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of futu…"-Toby Ord, The Precipice
29. 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 … read more
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"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 pas…"-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 graspe…"-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
30. Parerga and Paralipomena
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
4.15
Format: 664 pages, Paperback
This is the only complete English translation of one of the most significant and fascinating works … read more
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"Genius lives only one storey above madness"-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
"In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone."-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
"Beauty is an open letter of recommendation that wins hearts for us in advance."-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
31. Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900
By: Frederick C. Beiser
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the … read more
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