Simone Weil: An Anthology
8 best books like Simone Weil: An Anthology (Simone Weil): The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, I and Thou, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, The Third Policeman, Growth of the Soil, Notebooks 1914-1916, Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974, The Ethics of Ambiguity
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691097615 |
Except his book on flying saucers, read in childhood, this was the first book I ever read by C.G. Jung. The experience led to a programme of study which occupied the next eight years, leading me to change college majors (history to religious studies) and to proceed to seminary upon graduation.
The...
| Author | Martin Buber |
| ISBN | 0684717255 |
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Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born after World War II considers...
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
| Author | R.D. Laing |
| ISBN | 0140135375 |
In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person with that of a person who "cannot take the realness, aliveness, autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted" and who consequently contrives strategies to avoid "losing his self". Laing explains...
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0394717813 |
“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.”
Having spent most of a weekend...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0226904474 |
This considerably revised second edition of Wittgenstein's 1914-16 notebooks contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E.D. Klemke. Corrections have been made throughout the text, and notes have been added,...
| Author | Werner Herzog |
| ISBN | 0979612101 |
In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot to visit his ailing friend, film critic and historian Lotte Eisner. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense...
Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer in modern France. A leading exponent of French existentialism, her work complements, though it is independent of, that of her great friend Jean-Paul Sartre. In "The Ethics of Ambiguity," Madame de...
