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Existentialism eBooks

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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

    R184,10

  • The Fall

    by Albert Camus ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience' The New York TimesJean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall (1956) is a ... Read more

    R165,70

  • Melancholia Africana

    The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition

    by Nathalie Etoke ...
    Translated by Bill Hamlett ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony. From these experiences a theme of loss resonates—loss of land, of freedom, of language, of culture, of self, and of ideals born from independence. Nathalie Etoke demonstrates that, beyond territorial expropriation and the ... Read more

    R370,17

  • 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

    R147,30

  • Cosmos and Psyche

    Intimations of a New World View

    by Richard Tarnas ...
    A groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world—the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods.In these pages, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, and on ... Read more

    R136,95

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism

    3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume - The Birth of Tragedy

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Thomas Common, Helen Zimmern, Wm. A. Haussmann ...
    "Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None" chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism. Zarathustra contains the famous dictum "God is dead" and the concept of the "Übermensch" (overman or superman). In "Beyond Good and Evil" Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their ... Read more

    R39,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wake of Imagination

    by Richard Kearney ...
    With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern. ... Read more

    R1 196,45

  • Autumn Leaves

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Elsie Pell ...
    This collection of reflective essays forms a "spiritual autobiography" of André Gide, a key figure of French lettersAndré Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines his memories and personal observations in this collection of essays. Gide's reflections and commentary masterfully showcase his delicate writing style and evocative sensibility, yielding new insights on ... Read more

    R262,88 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sickness Unto Death

    A New Translation

    by Søren Kierkegaard ...
    Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse ...
    The first new translation of Kierkegaard’s masterwork in a generation brings to life this impassioned investigation of the self.The “greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine” (Gregory R. Beabout), Søren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly imagined philosophical works as Fear and Trembling and The Concept of Anxiety. Yet only The Sickness unto Death condenses his most essential ... Read more

    R249,77

  • Kierkegaard’S Existentialism

    The Theological Self and the Existential Self

    by George Leone Ph.D. Th.D. ...
    Of all the philosophers in the vast and varied history of philosophy, Soren Kierkegaard alone concentrated on describing how it was that one became a self. In Kierkegaards Existentialism, Dr. George Leone describes what it means to become a self as exemplified in the life and writings of Kierkegaard.Leone discusses how from the beginning Kierkegaards main concern was to examine what it meant to be ... Read more

    R57,95

  • Being and Nothingness

    An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Sarah Richmond ...
    First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of "the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley ... Read more

    R747,69

  • The Trouble With Being Born

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning.In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and ... Read more

    R202,62

  • Papers and Journals

    Translated by Alastair Hannay ...
    by Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard ...
    One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, these private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality, from his time as a young student to the deep later internal conflict that formed the basis for his masterpiece of duality Either/Or and ... Read more

    R276,22

  • Irrational Man

    A Study in Existential Philosophy

    by William Barrett ...
    Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning ... Read more

    R105,33

  • Fear and Trembling

    by Soren Kierkegaard ...
    In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to forget it. He resigned himself to the loss of his son, acting according to his faith. In other words, one must be willing to give up all his or her earthly possessions in infinite ... Read more

    R19,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    R19,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Doctor and the Soul

    From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

    by Viktor E. Frankl ...
    In this classic work, internationally known Viennese psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, founder of the school of logotherapy, sets forth the principles of existential psychiatry. He holds that man's search for meaning in existence is a primary facet of his being; if the search is unrequited, it leads to neurosis. The role of the therapist, then, is to help the patient discover a purposefulness in life ... Read more

    R171,34

  • The Divided Self

    An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

    by R. D. Laing ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience.First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, ... Read more

    R202,62

  • The Aristos

    by John Fowles ...
    Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos, 'of a person or thing, the best or most excellent its kind'. ... Read more

    R239,42

  • The Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice

    by Monica Hanaway ...
    In The Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice, Monica Hanaway presents a complete introduction to existential coaching, focusing on how coaches can incorporate key skills in all aspects of their practice. Practical and theoretical, the book explores how existential thought can offer a fresh re-orientation of coaching practice that embraces uncertainty, working towards a deeper understanding of ... Read more

    R772,62

  • Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals

    Critical Essays

    by Eric Blondel, Daniel Conway, Ken Gemes, Jürgen Habermas, Salim Kemal, Paul S. Loeb, Mark Migotti, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, David Owen, Robert Pippin, Aaron Ridley, Gary Shapiro, Alan Schrift, Christine Swanton, Yirmiyahu Yovel, Keith Ansell Pearson, Babette Babich, Alexander Nehamas, Tracy Strong ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche's most rewarding but most challenging text. Including ... Read more

    R717,47

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    A Biography

    by Curtis Cate ...
    No modern philosopher has been more maligned and misunderstood or more cynically exploited than Friedrich Nietzsche. Physically handicapped by weak eyesight, violent headaches and bouts of nausea, this paradoxical thinker fashioned a philosophy, which made short shrift of self-pity and the ostentatious display of compassion. The son of a Lutheran clergyman, whom he adored, he became a fearless ... Read more

    R349,93

  • The Great Philosophers: Spinoza

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled, while even to professional thinkers in our own time, Spinoza has seemed too clever by half.And yet, as Roger Scruton shows in this strikingly readable introduction to the man and his though, Spinoza's concerns were both simple and sublime. Few ... Read more

    R54,61

  • Ecce Homo

    How One Becomes What One Is

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    In late 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, Friedrich Nietzsche set out to compose his life story. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is remains one of the most remarkable autobiographies ever written, a powerful work of genius in which the German philosopher critiques his own works (and those of others) and weighs in on a plethora of subjects, from mastering self-control to female ... Read more

    R9,99 or Free with Kobo Plus