Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy
Originally delivered as a lecture in Paris in 1945, "Existentialism and Humanism" is Sartre's seminal defence of his original doctrine of existentialism and a plan for its practical application to everyday human life. Over the past fifty years, the writings of Sartre have probably been more influential ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
Nietzsche (The Great Philosophers) by Ronald Hayman
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.While the nineteenth ce ...Show more
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Diogenes
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness a ...Show more
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Christopher (INT) Robin (TRN); Gill Epictetus; Hard
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of ...Show more
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros
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Category: Philosophy
This book will change how you think about walking and how you walk while you are thinking. In an updated new edition, Frédéric Gros leads readers on an entertaining and insightful ramble in the company of great philosophers - Kant, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Kierkegaard - who understood that great ideas came t ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Philosophy
Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, "The Prince" is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in "Penguin Classics". As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. "The Prin ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Pocket Hardbacks by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whet ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Modern Library Classics
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here? -- Gabor Maté M.D. , author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts As our civilization careens toward climate breakdown, ecological destruc ...Show more