A New History of Western Philosophy
By: Anthony Kenny
4.23
Format: 1058 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- historical
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. 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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"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
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
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
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
5. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- history
"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
6. Being and Nothingness
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes , Mary Warnock , Richard Eyre
3.99
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th ce… read more
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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
7. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. The Gay Science
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.11
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more
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9. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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11. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
By: Will Durant
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle,… read more
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- history
12. 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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13. A History of Western Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more
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14. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
By: Simon Blackburn
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscap… read more
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15. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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16. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion
By: David Hume , John Charles Addison Gaskin
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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17. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- historical
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
18. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
19. Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
By: Peter Zeihan
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"In many ways, industrialization is a straitjacket. The suite of industrial technologies improves literacy and mobility and reach and wealth and health, but without the inputs of oil, natural gas, iro…"-Peter Zeihan, Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
20. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
4.06
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but b… read more
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"The main reason we use math in physics, however, is because we can."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"foundational physics, which is far from experimental test as science can be while still being science"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"if you quote this, you can be the first person to quote someone quoting someone quoting himself quoting someone"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can't explain what was not observed"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
21. A New History of Western Philosophy
By: Anthony Kenny
4.23
Format: 1058 pages, Hardcover
The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hai… read more
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