1,169円 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 ...

1,723円 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 theol...

1,126円 What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our v...

1,983円 Sartre's greatest novel ー and existentialism's key text ー now introduced by James Wood. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate ...

2,177円 Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine ...

777円 Based on a series of lectures given in 1983 by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, Understanding Objectivism offers a deeper and more profound study of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and outlines a methodology of how to approach the study of Objectivism and apply its principles to one's life. For the legions of readers...

1,088円 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselvesーand each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched livesーand destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings...

174円 Les Essais sont l'œuvre majeure de Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), à laquelle il travaille de 1572 jusqu'à sa mort. Ils traitent de tous les sujets possibles, sans ordre apparent : médecine, livres, affaires domestiques, chevaux, maladien 1 entre autres, auxquels Montaigne mêle des réflexions su...

794円 Flying Leap is a book about many things. The main character embarks on a journey of discovery through an unusual circumstance, a conversation that questions everything and every thing. Through this process the protagonist and the reader find themselves looking at life anew. In the tradition of Da...

3,468円 This landmark book, first published in 1979, met acclaim as a doubly important work of radical philosophy. Its subject, Jean-Paul Sartre, was among the twentieth century's most controversial and influential philosophers; its author, István Mészáros, was himself establishing a reputation for profo...

662円 The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Nietzsche Made Simple is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to Nietzsche. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover all his...

2,102円 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in th...