The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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Category: Philosophy
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits by Jen Martin
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Category: Philosophy
Why can’t I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I’m missing out? Why can’t I remember why I walked into this room? In Why Am I Like This?, Dr. Jen Martin delves into the science behind our strangest thoughts and habits, from why smells make us homesick to why we stick our tongues out when we’r ...Show more
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy
In late 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, Friedrich Nietzsche set out to compose his life story. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is remains one of the most remarkable autobiographies ever written, a powerful work of genius in which the German philosopher critiques his own works (and ...Show more
The Art of Thinking Clearly: The Secrets of Perfect Decision-Making by Rolf Dobelli
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Category: Philosophy
Have you ever . . . Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Paid too much in an eBay auction? Continued to do something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances? Backed the wrong hors ...Show more
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels, yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defence any moral values against the constant enroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? This work conducts a debate with major writers, thin ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolao Machiavelli
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended and indeed applauded as the firs ...Show more
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
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Category: Philosophy
Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. Timaeus introduces the ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
¿If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.¿ - Karl Popper ...Show more
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale.The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1 ...Show more
Wittgenstein (The Great Philosophers) by Peter Hacker
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself' WittgensteinWittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the inner', of our subjective experience and of our knowledge of self and others. Traditional conceptions of 'the outer', of human behaviour, were equally distor ...Show more
Stoicism by Brad Inwood
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This ...Show more