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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
William James · 402 pages
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus · 212 pages
One of the most influential works of this century, this 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 an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Camus posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal exis
Untimely Meditations
Friedrich Nietzsche · 266 pages
The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876. They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of huma
Existentialism and Human Emotions
Jean-Paul Sartre · 96 pages
Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 464 pages
What's Wrong With the World
G.K. Chesterton · 176 pages
I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning. And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it)
The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis · 116 pages
C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.
The Importance of Living
Lin Yutang · 459 pages
The Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that there will always be plenty of fools around who are willing-indeed, eager-to be busy, to make themselves useful, and to exercise power wh
Écrits
Jacques Lacan · 878 pages
Presents an English translation of Jacques Lacan's most famous work, with translations of all the papers featured in the original French edition.
Between Past and Future
Hannah Arendt · 298 pages
Essays examining the effect on political and social thought of the western world's break with the Graeco-Roman tradition.
On Liberty and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill · 592 pages
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Portable Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 752 pages
"A comprehensive collection of writings by "the most influential writer of the nineteenth century" (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson's diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emerson's admirers and proteges, while his central text, Nature
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Henry David Thoreau · 188 pages
Fear and Trembling/Repetition
Soren Kierkegaard · 464 pages
The two books comprised in this volume are in greater demand than any other works of Kierkegaard. This preference is a credit to the public taste, for Kierkegaard himself called them "the most perfect books I have written," though in this commendation he included The Concept of Dread, and later stretched it to include Training in Christianity.
Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman · 201 pages
"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,--the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will
The Soul of Man under Socialism
Oscar Wilde · 65 pages
The Book of Tea
Kakuzo Okakura · 54 pages
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity
The World As I See It
Albert Einstein · 114 pages
Presents dozens of articles, essays, letters and other correspondence written by Einstein between 1922 and 1934. These revealing pieces focus on the human side of Einstein's accomplishments, covering topics such as the meaning of life, good and evil, religion and science, wealth, pacifism, the world economic crisis, Palestine, and anti-Semitism.
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant · 144 pages