Basic Writings of Existentialism
10 best books like Basic Writings of Existentialism (Gordon Daniel Marino): Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy, Essays in Existentialism, Simone Weil: An Anthology, Selected Essays, The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings, The Best American Essays 2006, The Best American Essays 2008, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, Best European Fiction 2011
| Author | William Barrett |
| ISBN | 0385031386 |
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...
A splendid introduction to the philosophy of existentialism.
In Essays in Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), the leading French exponent of existential philosophy, wrote a book that open many doors to the mind. Sartre challenged his readers to think beyond the meaning of their...
| Author | Simone Weil |
| ISBN | 0802137296 |
Philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist -- Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a great variety of subjects ranging from classical philosophy and poetry, to modern labor, to the language...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
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| Author | Monroe C. Beardsley |
| ISBN | 0375758046 |
“Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0521016886 |
Nietzsche's late works are brilliant and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigor, and style. This volume combines, for the first time in English, five of these works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche...
| Author | Lauren Slater |
| ISBN | 0618705295 |
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness....
| Author | Adam Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0618983228 |
Here you will find the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this year’s edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have “text and inner text, personal...
Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology
| Author | Louis P. Pojman |
| ISBN | 0534543642 |
Pojman's PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION offers a comprehensive sampling of newly emerging scholarship and also includes many essays that traditionally have proved successful in p[hilosophy of religion classrooms. The editor's lucid introductions preface articles by such important contemporary writers...
| Author | Aleksandar Hemon |
| ISBN | 1564786005 |
The launch of Dalkey’s Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print...
Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature,...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691059160 |
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series, is also the...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0618982728 |
Addendum to original review, explaining why I have downgraded this to two stars - (italicized material below):
My second criticism is probably more a reflection of my personal taste, and may not be shared by other readers. But I felt that Mary Oliver's background as a poet shone through, with...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0375757333 |
Introduction by Allen W. Wood
With translations by F. Max Müller and Thomas K. Abbott
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the relationship between the human mind and all that it encounters and remain the most...
| Author | Albert Camus |
| ISBN | 0394708520 |
"Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus's three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061550248 |
Major Works is the finest single-volume anthology of influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's important writings. Featuring the complete texts of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books: Studies for 'Philosophical Investigations,' and On Certainty, this new collection...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140150404 |
Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes...
Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey
| Author | Roger Scruton |
| ISBN | 0140249079 |
How does one view the following two paragraphs?
“The concept of life, therefore, has been appropriated by philosophers in their search for the ‘true individual’. The heap is an arbitrary individual; even the table is one thing only so long as our interests require it to be. But when it...
The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
| Author | Jean Baudrillard |
| ISBN | 1845203348 |
There are few philosophers today cool enough to be referenced in the Matrix, interesting enough to be mentioned on Six Feet Under, and popular enough to get over 606,000 hits on Google. Jean Baudrillard has succeeded in all of this and more. Now, in his latest book, Baudrillard presents his most popular...
