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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Art of Happiness
Epicurus · 272 pages
"The teachings of Epicurus—about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship—attracted legions of adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. Though Epicurus faced hostile opposition for centuries after his death, he counts among his many admirers Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx, and
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig · 418 pages
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Will Durant · 543 pages
Originally published in 1926, ‘The Story of Philosophy’ profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, written by Will Durant, an American writer, historian, philosopher, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In this enlightening and eminently readable book, Will Durant accounts the lives, ideas and views of various critical philosophical thinkers throughout history. Starting with
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Herbert Marcuse · 282 pages
Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 464 pages
Saint Thomas Aquinas
G.K. Chesterton, Anton C. Pegis · 116 pages
" St. Thomas Aquinas is enriched by the author's unique ability to see the world through the saint's eyes, a fresh and animated view that shows us Aquinas as no other biography has. Acclaimed as the best book ever written on Aquinas by such outstanding Thomists as Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, and Anton Pegis, this brilliant biography will completely capture the reader and leave him desirous o
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
Karl R. Popper · 364 pages
Political Writings
Immanuel Kant · 327 pages
First published in 1970, this much-acclaimed collection of the political writings of Immanuel Kant has new been revised and expanded for publication in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Three important texts are translated here for the first time, and Professor Reiss has added, in addition to an extended bibliography, a substantial postscript, looking at recent developments in K
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · 218 pages
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
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 197 pages
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1
Soren Kierkegaard · 650 pages
Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Edmund Husserl · 405 pages
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
Arthur Schopenhauer · 120 pages
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault · 333 pages
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.