The Senses of Walden
By: Stanley Cavell
4.25
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Stanley Cavell , one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable compan…
Want to Read $ 15.33"We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds."-Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
"We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds."-Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
"What we know as self-consciousness is only our opinion of ourselves, and like any other opinion it comes from outside; it is hearsay, our contribution to public opinion. We must become disobedient to it, resist it, no longer listen to it."-Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
"What we know as self-consciousness is only our opinion of ourselves, and like any other opinion it comes from outside; it is hearsay, our contribution to public opinion. We must become disobedient to it, resist it, no longer listen to it."-Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. Tenth of December
By: George Saunders
3.98
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. 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
5. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- nonfiction
6. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes"-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
7. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
By: Christian Wiman
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetrymagazine, wrote a now-f… read more
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8. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
9. A Child's Christmas in Wales
By: Trina Schart Hyman , Dylan Thomas
3.80
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Originally emerging from a piece written for radio, the poem was recorded by Thomas in 1952. The st… read more
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10. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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11. Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
By: Richard Rorty
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawi… read more
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12. Mr. Sammler's Planet
By: Saul Bellow , Stanley Crouch
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An enduring testament and prophecy." -Chicago Sun-Times Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, int… read more
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13. The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
By: Simone Weil
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
War and the Iliadis a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and… read more
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14. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
15. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
16. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
17. The Four Loves
By: C.S. Lewis
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
18. Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
By: Clare Carlisle
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
19. This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
By: Martin Hägglund
4.08
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our l… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"To be finite means primarily two things: to be dependent on others and to live in relation to death. (4)"-Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
"As soon as you remove the sense of finitude and vulnerability, you remove the vitality of any possible love relationship. (43)"-Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
"What ultimately matters from a religious perspective is not freedom but salvation; what ultimately matters is not to lead a life but to be saved from being alive."-Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
"What we believe deep in our hearts—the hymn ["We Shall Overcome"] avows—is not that God will save us but that we shall overcome our subordination through collective action. (372)"-Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
20. Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary
By: Stephen Mulhall
3.75
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
This is the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his… read more
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21. The Senses of Walden
By: Stanley Cavell
4.25
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Stanley Cavell , one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable compan… read more
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- american
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- nature
- literary criticism
"We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will n…"-Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
"What we know as self-consciousness is only our opinion of ourselves, and like any other opinion it comes from outside; it is hearsay, our contribution to public opinion. We must become disobedient to…"-Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
"What we call the Protestant Ethic, the use of worldly loss and gain to symbolize heavenly standing, appears in Walden as some last suffocation of the soul. America and its Christianity have become pe…"-Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
