Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man & the Origin of Evil
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
3.58
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Leibniz was above all things a metaphysician. That does not mean that his head was in the clouds, o…
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1. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
By: Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti
4.00
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”pos… read more
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"Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and…"-Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2. The Wisdom of Life
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None , T. Bailey Saunders
4.12
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
A leading German philosopher and metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)… read more
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"The perverse, obtuse, wicked biped race"-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
"La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
"Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
3. Theological-Political Treatise
By: Baruch Spinoza , Seymour Feldman , Samuel Shirley
4.08
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
D’abord paru sous le couvert de l’anonymat en 1670, le Traité théologico-politique fut rapidement a… read more
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"The purpose of the state is really freedom."-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
"لم يستطِعْ أحدٌ أن يستمرَّ في الحُكم طويلًا عن طريق العنف"-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
"No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand."-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
"لا يحدُث شيء يُناقِض الطبيعة، فالطبيعة تحتفِظ بنظامٍ أزلي لا يتغيَّر"-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
4. 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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"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
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. 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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7. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
8. Passions of the Soul
By: René Descartes , None , Stephen Voss
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the treatise Passions of the Soul (Les passions de l'ame), the last of Descartes' published work… read more
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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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10. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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11. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
12. The New Organon
By: Lisa Jardine , Francis Bacon , Michael Silverthorne
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal phi… read more
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13. The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I: Human Nature; Part II: de Corpore Politico with Three Lives
By: Thomas Hobbes , None , J.C.A. Gaskin
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (164… read more
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14. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
By: Robert Aickman
4.40
Format: 436 pages,
Cold Hand in Minewas first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from … read more
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15. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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16. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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17. The Anti-Christ
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , H.L. Mencken
3.68
Format: 420 pages,
Monumento de escandalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre postuma del inquieta… read more
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18. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
By: John Locke
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Locke is widely regarded as the father of classical liberalism. This essay was groundbreaking … read more
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19. Perpetual Peace
By: Immanuel Kant
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Vers la paix perpetuelle parut en 1795. L'ouvrage, qui eut un grand succes, venait clore un mouveme… read more
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20. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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21. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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22. 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
23. The Essays
By: Francis Bacon , None
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court o… read more
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24. Critique of Practical Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Mary J. Gregor
4.16
Format: None pages, paper
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral th… read more
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25. Discourse on Method
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more
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26. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay , Victor Eremita
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
'What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?' Eith… read more
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27. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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28. On Anger
By: Seneca
4.21
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Roma’nın belki de en tartışmalı imparatorlarından Nero’nun eğitmenliğini yapmış, Roma’nın o çetin v… read more
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"My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong."-Seneca, On Anger
"We often are angry," says our adversary, "not with men who have hurt us, but with men who are going to hurt us: so you may be sure that anger is not born of injury."-Seneca, On Anger
"If any one is angry with you, meet his anger by returning benefits for it: a quarrel which is only taken up on one side falls to the ground: it takes two men to fight."-Seneca, On Anger
"El mejor remedio para la ira es el tiempo. No le pidas al principio que perdone, sino que juzgue; si espera, se disipa. No trates de comprimirla de un solo golpe; su primer arrebato es demasiado enér…"-Seneca, On Anger
29. 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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30. Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
By: Friedrich Hölderlin
4.18
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
Von Walther von der Vogelweide als dem größten Lyriker vor Goethe zu sprechen ist nicht falsch. (Es… read more
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"Some are shy of going to the source For riches begin in the sea."-Friedrich Hölderlin, Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
"When Hölderlin’s Oedipus and Antigone appeared in spring 1804, the learnèd said at once that they must be the work of a madman."-Friedrich Hölderlin, Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
31. Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man & the Origin of Evil
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
3.58
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Leibniz was above all things a metaphysician. That does not mean that his head was in the clouds, o… read more
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