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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche · 160 pages
"In The Birth of Tragedy (1872) Nietzsche explores the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of his time. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of a culture that has achieved a balance between Dionysian insight into the.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin · 45 pages
"An attempt by literary critic Walter Benjamin to analyze the changed experience of art in modern society."--Page 4 of cover.
Philosophical Essays
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 366 pages
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 166 pages
Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard · 158 pages
"This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a founding document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for these perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Søren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume · 709 pages
The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher's classic work on human understanding and morals.
The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
Arthur Schopenhauer
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 640 pages
Meditations on First Philosophy
Rene Descartes · 95 pages
Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)—full titles Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated—is a philosophical treatise by French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. First published in Latin, the book is made up of six meditations written as if Descartes had meditated for six days; each meditation refers to the last o
Theological-Political Treatise
Baruch Spinoza · 267 pages
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 340 pages
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox th
The Metaphysics
Aristotle
Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
New Science
Giambattista Vico · 488 pages
"Although Vico (1668-1744) lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to decode the history, mythology and law of the ancient world. It argues that the key to true understanding lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of the Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians, were utterly different from our own. In ex
On War
Carl von Clausewitz · 442 pages
Vom Kriege is the basic work on the Western way of war. For Clauswitz, war is "politics by other means". It concentrates on defeating the enemy by massing overwhelming force at the enemy's weak point. In his rationalistic model, the prince (or other governing elite) begins with a set of objectives and chooses the most cost-effective way of accomplishing them. If force is seen as that way, then the
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus · 169 pages
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus--featured here in a stand-alone edition--is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide--the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly
The Basic Political Writings
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 227 pages
Theaetetus
Plato · 178 pages
Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of style, the humour, the dramatic interest, the complexity of structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting of the poi
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl R. Popper · 480 pages
When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 108 pages
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 171 pages
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
The I Ching or Book of Changes
Anonymous · 740 pages
A translation of the early document of Chinese philosophy with explanatory notes.