This is a collection of 12 short stories, accompanied by author's notes at the end. Looking Beyond the Universe - Jack Lee is a therapist called to diagnose a curious case - a man is claiming to be a superhero. Jack listens to his story and the patient is so vehement part of Jack wonders if he could be telling the truth... The Hollow World - Sam is trapped in a simulated world but she fears it means more to her than the real one. She struggles with the conflict between h...

The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing, questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it seems as if it were hardly commenced. Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn impatiently away? That this Sphinx teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves? W...

Thus Spake Zarathustra is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Ubermensch, which were first introduced in The Gay Science.

Collected here in one volume are three of Søren Kierkegaard's most important works: Fear and Trembling, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, and Sickness Unto Death. Fear and Trembling: In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further. It would perhaps be rash to ask where these people are going, but it is surely a sign of breeding and culture for me to assume that everybody has faith, for otherwise it would be queer for them to be . . . going further. In those old...

Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, knew that he was speaking in Germany for the last time. Jaspers used the occasion to offer an account of the cultural and intellectual situation from which existentialism emerged as well as a summary of his own philosophy.The book serves t...

A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief: "Moving and complete and very much worth reading" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own...

In Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy, Anoop Gupta develops an original theory of the self based on Kierkegaard's writings. Gupta proceeds by historical exegesis and considers several important ways of thinking about self outside of the natural sciences. His study moves theories of the self from theology toward sociology, from a God-relationship to a social one, and illustrates how a loss in theological underpinnings partly contributes to the rise in the popularity of cultural relativi...

Fate and Freedom Volume 2 builds on the paths of thought opened up in volume 1 with a series of investigations engaging significant figures in both modern and ancient, eastern and western thought. 'Energy and Freedom' uses Pierre Klossowski's thought-provoking book Sade My Neighbour as a spur to probe the ambiguous relationship between these two terms and the ambiguous status of desire in connection with both. Buddhist thought is deployed as a counterpoint, but ...

Kafka’s aphorisms are fascinating glimpses into the lure and the enigma of the form itself. • From the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—and one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.The aphorism eludes definition: it can appear to be a random jotting or a more polished observation. Whether arbitrary fragment or crystalline shard, an aphorism captures the inception of a thought. Franz Kafka composed aphorisms dur...

What does fate mean, and how does it work? When we feel we are in the grip of a fate, how can we best disarm that grip and free ourselves from it? And what is freedom? How might we understand better what freedom really entails so as not to lose it quite so easily? In a series of exploratory essays, Fate and Freedom challenges a number of prevailing notions about fate, starting with the idea of a completely pre-determined course of events. Fate reveals itself to be far mo...

Soul - The Tortures Of The DamnedChapter #1 God (What She looks like)Chapter #2 The Infinibar Cozmozez. Then The Great Big BangChapter #3 Creation of Souls and their CourgeistsChapter #4 Courgeist Creation inside the SoulChapter #5 Creation of WILLChapter #6 Creation of Emissaries - Angels, Spirits, Cherubs, DemonsChapter #7 Limbo Way Station Bosom of AbrahamChapter #8 Purgatory and the GeistwerkChapter #9 The Infinite Interlud...

  Spinoza was the 17th Century’s philosopher of the Word of God: the philosopher of true Christian Salvation and Holiness. Within the corpus of Spinoza’s work, there are many references pointing to a significant and important place for Christ in Spinoza’s work. Actual texts and historical information readily affirms this. The historical evidence itself is not in question. This booklet makes extensive use of many of those textual and historical references to make a case that from an...