Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties
10 best books like Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties (Gilles Deleuze): Capitalism and Freedom, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Dream Story, Critique of Pure Reason, Ethics, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Gay Science, On the Genealogy of Morals, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes
| Author | Milton Friedman |
| ISBN | 0226264211 |
Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"
How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679752552 |
This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...
| Author | Arthur Schnitzler |
| ISBN | 0141182245 |
“Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.”
The Bride (1918) by Klimt
It all begins with a confession of sorts as his wife Albertine tells him of a fantasy she had involving a man that she saw on their...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521657296 |
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1781), 856 pp. 2nd (B) ed: 1787. [A-edition (Ak. 4:5-252); B-edition (Ak. 3:2-552)]. “Critique of Pure Reason.” Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (Macmillan 1929). Translated by Werner Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett 1996). Translated by Paul...
| Author | Baruch Spinoza |
| ISBN | 0140435719 |
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521626951 |
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0394719859 |
If you read Nietzsche while not in the midst of some variety of emo existential crisis, Nietzsche is hilarious and insightful. If, however, you choose to read Nietzsche in high school in order to be counter-culture, odds are good Nietzsche will temporarily turn you into a horrible, pompous ass. Nietzsche...
On the Genealogy of Morals
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0143039075 |
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...
| Author | Martin Heidegger |
| ISBN | 3150084466 |
بعد از چند سال، دوباره این کتاب رو خوندم. این بار به واسطه ی آشنایی بیشتری که با هایدگر پیدا کرده بودم، خیلی راحت تر سیر بحث رو دنبال کردم. به نظرم میرسه که اگر...
