The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
By: Keiji Nishitani
4.13
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
English (translation) Original Japanese
Want to Read $ 5.00"If silence is golden, then Zen may be called an alchemy that transforms all things into gold by purifying them in the fire of the negation of all words and letters, names and concepts, logical methods and theoretical systems..."-Keiji Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
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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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"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
2. Etidorhpa
By: John Uri Lloyd
4.04
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The word "Etidorhpa" is the reverse spelling of the name "Aphrodite". The first editions of Etidorh… read more
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3. On the Suffering of the World
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
3.86
Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A collection of essays by Schopenhauer on the perception of the importance of art, morality and sel… read more
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"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short."-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
"If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world."-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
"... everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: "Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worst of all arrives."-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
"... with man sexual gratification is tied to a very obstinate selectivity which is sometimes intensified into a more or less passionate love. Thus sexuality becomes for man a source of brief pleasure…"-Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
4. 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
5. Human, All Too Human
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more
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6. 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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7. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
8. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
9. What Is Called Thinking?
By: Martin Heidegger , None , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
"For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?is as important asBeing… read more
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10. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
11. 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
12. What Is Ancient Philosophy?
By: Pierre Hadot , Michael Chase
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A magisterial mappa mundiof the terrain that Pierre Hadothas so productively worked for decades, th… read more
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13. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
14. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By: William Blake
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more
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15. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
By: Frank Herbert
3.88
Format: 587 pages, Paperback
Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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"But you invite ..."-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"In the wrong hands,"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"Only fools prefer the past!"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"For what do you hunger, Lord?"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
16. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
17. Anéantir
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.84
Format: 734 pages, Hardcover
Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more
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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
18. The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.94
Format: 666 pages, Hardcover
It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at… read more
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"The priest who once supervised me as a student had once said to me that a person only has to step sideways for everything to look different. He'd been talking about the priest's role as a director of…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)
19. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenste… read more
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20. The Psychology of Totalitarianism
By: Mattias Desmet
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear wit… read more
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"The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Dissident speech doesn't have to be primarily tactical or rhetorical in nature, but it should be authentic and honest."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
21. The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
By: Keiji Nishitani
4.13
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
English (translation) Original Japanese read more
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"If silence is golden, then Zen may be called an alchemy that transforms all things into gold by purifying them in the fire of the negation of all words and letters, names and concepts, logical method…"-Keiji Nishitani, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
