12 Best philosophy books like Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger, David Farrell Krell

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Basic Writings

By: Martin Heidegger , David Farrell Krell

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin …

"Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells."

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

"Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells."

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

"Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells."

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

"The essence of technology is by no means anything technological."

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

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1. Basic Writings

By: Martin Heidegger , David Farrell Krell

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin … read more

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"Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells."

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

"The essence of technology is by no means anything technological."

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

"As ek-sisting, man sustains Da-sein in that he takes the Da, the clearing of Being, into "care."

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

"In its essence, language is not the utterance of an organism; nor is it the expression of a living thing. Nor can it ever be thought in an essentially correct way in terms of its symbolic character, …"

-Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

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2. The Concept of the Political

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more

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"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

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3. 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

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4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more

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5. 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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6. Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola , None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more

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7. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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8. Parmenides

By: Plato , Keith Whitaker

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues be… read more

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9. After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency

By: Alain Badiou , Quentin Meillassoux , Ray Brassier

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of ph… read more

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10. The Gift of Death

By: Jacques Derrida , Mark C. Taylor , David Wills

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he contin… read more

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11. Heidegger: an introduction

By: Richard Polt

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Polt provides a lively and accessible introduction to one of the most influential and intel… read more

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12. Light in August

By: William Faulkner

3.89

Format: 704 pages,

Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more

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13. Modes of Thought

By: Alfred North Whitehead

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Six lectures delivered at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, & two at the University of Chicago Pref… read more

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14. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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15. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

16. Phenomenology of Perception

By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Colin Smith

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Together with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period and … read more

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17. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

By: Alain Badiou , Peter Hallward

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agen… read more

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18. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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19. A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Revised Edition

By: Martin Heidegger , None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This thoroughly revised commentary uses the most recent insights in Heidegger studies to lead the r… read more

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20. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

21. Twilight of the Idols

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more

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