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  • The Myth of Sisyphus

    by Albert Camus, James Wood ...
    Translated by Justin O'Brien ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living?'What I touch, what resists me - that is what I understand'As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus condemned forever to roll a rock up a hill ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The Myth of Sisyphus

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.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 ... Read more

    7,20 €

  • We Are Not Born Submissive

    How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

    by Manon Garcia ...
    A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers—especially Simone de Beauvoir—to reveal the complexities of women’s reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, ... Read more

    34,33 €

  • The Outsider

    by Albert Camus ...
    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
    Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society - a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The Sickness Unto Death

    by Soren Kierkegaard ...
    The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard moves beyond anxiety on the mental-emotional level to the spiritual level, where--in contact with the eternal--anxiety becomes despair. Both anxiety and despair reflect the misrelation that arises in the self when the elements of the synthesis--the infinite and the finite--do not come into proper relation to each other. Despair is a deeper expression for ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Shortness of Life

    by Seneca ...
    Series Book 9 - Philosophy Collection
    The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom. ... Read more

    3,63 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Works of Love

    A New Translation

    by Søren Kierkegaard ...
    Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse ...
    **Following his acclaimed translations of Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death, Bruce H. Kirmmse presents a new translation of Kierkegaard’s discourses on love.“Bruce H. Kirmmse is among the very best translators of Kierkegaard working today.” —Christopher B. Barnett**A founding figure of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard is perhaps best known for his writing on anxiety and despair, ... Read more

    23,42 €

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. GraylingNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Essere e tempo

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Quando nel 1927 Martin Heidegger pubblicò Essere e tempo, si ebbe subito la sensazione che un nuovo astro fosse sorto nel firmamento della filosofia. Da anni le sue lezioni – di cui Essere e tempo è il distillato – avevano richiamato intorno a quel giovane «sciamano del pensiero» un folto gruppo di allievi e ascoltatori. Ma con l’apparizione del capolavoro fu chiaro a tutti che Heidegger emanava ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Liberazione delle possibilità creatrici del Sè attraverso il concetto di Godimento

    by Alice Manzoni ...
    Come poter ottenere maggiore controllo e coscienza sulle potenzialità che ognuno di noi possiede? Ho tentato di rispondere esplorando le parti di noi stessi che più ci sfuggono, mostrando come siano esse stesse ad aprire possibilità di comunicazione prima di tutto con noi e poi con gli altri.
 Questo lavoro rappresenta quindi una personale riflessione su come alcune particolari esperienze ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irrational Man

    A Study in Existential Philosophy

    by William Barrett ...
    Widely recognized as one of the finest introductions to existentialist philosophy ever written, Irrational Man helped introduce existentialism to an American audience when it was first published in 1958.Barrett writes with eloquence and clarity about concerns that remain as relevant today as ever: the persistence of the irrational and absurd, the search for meaning in a fractured world, and ... Read more

    7,20 €

  • Edmund Husserl

    Ricordo di un filosofo

    by Lev Šestov ...
    Translated by Andrea Oppo ...
    In queste pagine, scritte poche settimane prima della morte di Sestov, il filosofo russo offre un ricordo intenso e appassionato di Edmund Husserl, il fondatore della fenomenologia. Lontano da qualsiasi intento agiografico, Sestov spiega con assoluta onestà intellettuale il dissidio che lo ha sempre separato dalla visione filosofica husserliana, rievocando i pochi ma significativi incontri avuti ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • Ein Versuch über den menschlichen Verstand

    by John Locke ...
    Translated by Julius Heinrich von Kirchmann ...
    John Lockes An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, deutsch Ein Versuch über den menschlichen Verstand, in erster Auflage 1690 in London erschienen, wurde zum klassischen Titel empiristischer Erkenntnistheorie. Ausgangspunkt für den Essay war einerseits Lockes scholastische Ausbildung in Oxford auf Basis des in England vorherrschenden Nominalismus. Andererseits hatte er sich in seinem ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • L'Existence Mise à Nu : Trois Chemins vers Soi

    L'âme enchantée II: L'été, Jean Barois, L'influence d'un livre, L'Immoraliste, A rebours, La Faim

    by Michel de Frémin, Émile Bayard, Raoul Rosières ...
    L'Existence Mise à Nu : Trois Chemins vers Soi est une anthologie littéraire riche en diversité thématique où les explorations de l'identité, de la condition humaine et de la quête personnelle se mêlent à une variété de styles narratifs. Ce recueil réunit des pièces qui oscillent entre poésie introspective, prose philosophique et explorations narratives, engageant ainsi le lecteur dans un parcours ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Cross-Cultural Existentialism

    On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought

    by Dr Leah Kalmanson ...
    Engaging in existential discourse beyond the European tradition, this book turns to Asian philosophies to reassess vital questions of life's purpose, death's imminence, and our capacity for living meaningfully in conditions of uncertainty.Inspired by the dilemmas of European existentialism, this cross-cultural study seeks concrete techniques for existential practicevia the philosophies of East ... Read more

    30,41 €

  • O Isolamento Social como um Mal-Estar

    Uma Análise por meio da Fenomenologia da Enfermidade

    by Pedro Gianvecchio ...
    O isolamento social imposto pela pandemia de COVID-19 revelou um profundo mal-estar existencial causado pela enfermidade. Este livro mergulha na experiência de viver uma enfermidade em isolamento no contexto da pandemia, propondo uma investigação filosófica que transcende o diagnóstico médico. Para quem vive a enfermidade, a privação da convivência social e a disseminação de um vírus desconhecido ... Read more

    10,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Curriculum of Wellness

    Reconceptualizing Physical Education

    by Michelle Kilborn, William F. Pinar ...
    Series Book 47 - Complicated Conversation
    A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a significant contribution to the field of education as it features influential curriculum concepts nuanced with action research principles in a unified, intimate, and deeply relational inquiry into physical education teacher practice. This work presents a very ... Read more

    35,08 €

  • The Antiphilosophers

    by Steven L. Bindeman ...
    Series Book 220 - American University Studies
    In this volume, author Steven L. Bindeman presents a survey of the key figures in postmodern antiphilosophy. Noting that the main thrust of their work can be found in their need to respond to the threat of nihilism, he is guided by the question, if the path to abstract truth is no longer viable, what then? He shows how the antiphilosophers turn their focus on the complexity of lived experience in ... Read more

    85,32 €

  • Deutsche Freiheit: Ein Weckruf

    by Rudolf Eucken ...
    Entdecken Sie die Essenz der Freiheit in einem Werk, das die deutsche Seele erweckt!In "Deutsche Freiheit: Ein Weckruf" entfaltet Rudolf Eucken eine kraftvolle Vision von Freiheit, die tief in der deutschen Kultur und Geschichte verwurzelt ist. Dieses Buch ist mehr als nur eine Analyse; es ist ein leidenschaftlicher Appell an das Herz und den Verstand, die wahre Bedeutung von Freiheit zu erkennen ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Nietzsche and Race

    by Marc de Launay ...
    Translated by Sylvia Gorelick ...
    A definitive debunking of the “Nietzsche as Nazi” caricature.The caricature of Friedrich Nietzsche as a proto-Nazi is still with us, having originated with his own Nazi sister, Elisabeth Förster, who curated Nietzsche’s disparate texts to suit her own purposes. In Nietzsche and Race, Marc de Launay deftly counters this persistent narrative in a series of concise and highly accessible reflections ... Read more

    20,66 €

  • The Philosophy of Paranoia

    by Jack R Ernest ...
    This collection of short stories contains seven stories that revolve around science-fiction and existential themes. In one story, the unnamed narrator who lives in solitude in the wilderness, discusses his life of seclusion. In another story, a planet called Elysium is the last refuge of mankind. The stories encompass themes of alienation, escapism and existentialism. ... Read more

    3,71 €

  • Ogni pagaiata conta

    by Simone Tugnoli Peron ...
    E se il segreto per superare i tuoi limiti non fosse allenarti di più, ma allenarti con una consapevolezza diversa? Questo manuale ti insegna a trasformare ogni gesto, ogni pagaiata, in un potente atto di costruzione personale. Basato sui principi dell'Esistenzialismo Attivo, offre un metodo radicale per atleti e chiunque voglia applicare la filosofia dello sport alla propria vita.Scopri come ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Apropos of Nothing

    Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers

    by Clark Buckner ...
    Series series SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
    Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers.The Coen Brothers' films are rife with figures of absence. In The Big Lebowski, the Dude does nothing. He is put on the trail of a kidnapping that never happened, and solves the crime when he realizes that he paid the ransom with "a ringer for a ringer." The Hudsucker Proxy ... Read more

    30,41 €

  • The Labyrinth of the Soul

    by Raymond Cutway ...
    "Labyrinth of the Soul" is a raw and evocative poetry collection by Raymond "Phoenix" Cutway, delving deep into themes of love, loss, identity, and rebirth. Each poem is a fragment of a lived experience, exploring the cyclical nature of passion and pain, the storms of the mind, and the quiet strength found in resilience. This collection speaks to those who have wrestled with existence, loved ... Read more

    5,29 €