The Great Philosophers: Descartes by John Cottingham
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Category: Philosophy
'The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.' Descartes 'It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.'Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy. He was certainly one of the most important figures in the emergenc ...Show more
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evo ...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
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
The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World by Chao-Hwei Shih
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Category: Philosophy
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty and more. An unlikely duo-Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent Australian philosopher and professor of b ...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
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
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
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
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
The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language by Paul Ricoeur
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the wor ...Show more