Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah
By: Gershom Scholem , Moses de León
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the great masterpieces of Western religious thought, the Zohar represents an attempt to unco…
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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. 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
3. 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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"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
4. Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more
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5. 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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6. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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7. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
8. Man and His Symbols
By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman
4.19
Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more
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"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
9. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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10. Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah
By: Gershom Scholem , Moses de León
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the great masterpieces of Western religious thought, the Zohar represents an attempt to unco… read more
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- philosophy
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- mysticism
11. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Thupten Jinpa , Padmasambhava , Graham Coleman , Karma Lingpa , Gyurme Dorje , None
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dying. … read more
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12. The Jewish Study Bible
By: Anonymous , Adele Berlin , Marc Zvi Brettler , Jewish Publication Society
1.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of th… read more
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13. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more
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14. 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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15. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
16. Selected Poems
By: W.B. Yeats , John Kelly
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: " "One time it was a woman's face, or worse-" "T… read more
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17. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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18. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
19. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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20. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
