8 best-selling philosophy books like The Beginning of Philosophy by Hans-Georg Gadamer

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The Beginning of Philosophy

By: Hans-Georg Gadamer

3.85

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

With these unequivocal words, Hans-Georg Gadamer explores the layers of interpretation and misinter…

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Cover of The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, John Peck

1. The Red Book: Liber Novus

By: C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck

4.50

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called it his “confrontation with the un… read more

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"You are a slave to what you need in your soul."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"Los antiguos vivían sus signos porque el mundo aún no se les había vuelto real."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"«Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»"

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. Bergsonism

By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam

4.13

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

What is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant … read more

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"This is the meaning of philosophy, insofar as our condition condemns us to live among badly analyzed composites and to be badly analyzed composites ourselves."

-Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism

"Only emotion differs in nature from both intelligence and instinct, from both intelligent individual egoism and quasi-instinctive social pressure. Obviously no one denies that egoism produces emotion…"

-Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism

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4. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

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5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more

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6. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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7. Selected Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield , Angela Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virgin… read more

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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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9. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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10. Poor Folk

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.78

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People,[note] is the f… read more

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"ويقال إنّ الفتى بوكروفسكي يشبه أمه كما تشبه قطرة من الماء قطرة من الماء."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أضرع إليك مرة أخرى: لا تنفق في سبيلي كل هذا الذي تنفقه. أنا أعرف أنك تحبني كثيرًا، ولكنك لست غنيًا."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أوهام إنه ليتفق للمرء أن يخطئ تقدير ما يشعر به هو نفسه، وأن يسترسل في ترهات سخيفة. والذنب في ذلك كله انما هو ذنب هذا الطيش في قلبنا المندفع"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"لماذا تعيش النفوس الطيبة النبيلة في الشقاء والهجران، بينما لا يحتاج غيرها حتى إلى البحث عن السعادة لأن السعادة هي التي تلقي بنفسها بين ذراعيه؟"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

Cover of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, None, James Scully, C. John Herington

11. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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12. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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13. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

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14. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

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15. Diary of a Madman

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.02

Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), although Russian, was born in the village of Sorochyntsi in … read more

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"Woman is in love with the devil."

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

"Today an extraordinary adventure took place"

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

"My heart is beating as though it were waiting for something."

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

"La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle."

-Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

16. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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17. Autobiografía

By: Jorge Luis Borges

5.00

Format: 29 pages,

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18. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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19. The World as Will and Representation

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

4.26

Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition

The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more

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Cover of Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (English and French Edition) by Fernand Braudel

20. Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (English and French Edition)

By: Fernand Braudel

3.60

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

"In this concise book...Braudel summarizes the broad themes of his three-volume Civilisation materi… read more

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21. The Beginning of Philosophy

By: Hans-Georg Gadamer

3.85

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

With these unequivocal words, Hans-Georg Gadamer explores the layers of interpretation and misinter… read more

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7 must-read novels books like Ulysses by James Joyce

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

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