12 Top classics books like The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

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The Ethics of Ambiguity

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i…

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1. I and Thou

By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more

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"All real living is meeting."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

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2. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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3. The Ethics of Ambiguity

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i… read more

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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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

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7. 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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8. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more

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"But “nowhere"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"El ente existente “se"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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9. The Human Condition

By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more

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10. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more

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"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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11. 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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12. 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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13. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more

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14. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

15. The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

First published in 1844, Soren Kierkegaard's concise treatise identified--long before Freud--anxiet… read more

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16. 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

17. 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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18. 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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19. Critique of Judgment

By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more

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20. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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21. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

By: Albert Camus

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more

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14 Best philosophy books like The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

Transform Your Habits

I and Thou

Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

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12 best-selling classics books like Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay

Transform Your Habits

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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