A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Des ...Show more
Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Few philosophers have had a more profound influence on the course of modern philosophy than Bertrand Russell. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell is a comprehensive anthology of Russell's most definitive essays written between 1903 and 1959. First published in 1961, this remarkable collection is a te ...Show more
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy
Hailed as "lucid and magisterial" byThe Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy. Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration o ...Show more
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
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Category: Philosophy
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul is widely considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century, as well as a milestone in the field of psychology. In this book, Jung examines some of the most profound issues of analytical psychology, such as dream analysis, the collective unconscious, arc ...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
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
Being and Nothingness by Satre Jean Paul
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Category: Philosophy
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend ...Show more
On the Nature of the Psyche by Carl Gustav Jung
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Jung's discovery of the 'collective unconscious', a psychic inheritance common to all humankind, transformed the understanding of the self and the way we interpret the world. In On the Nature of the Psyche Jung describes this remarkable theory in his own words, and presents a masterly overview of his th ...Show more
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
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Category: Philosophy
A timely critique investigating how four women philosophers persevered in a field that often suppressed and disregarded the insights of female thinkers. As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange wor ...Show more
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
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Category: Philosophy
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
Dymphna by Judith Armstrong
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Category: Philosophy
Dymphna Lodewyckx was a brilliant linguist who easily won prizes and scholarships but cannot be said to have pursued a career; instead, she married Manning Clark, who earned great fame as an Australian historian. Occasional translations and classes gave Dymphna much pleasure and some pride, but they wer ...Show more