The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
8 best books like The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Steven Nadler): Scoop, On Beauty, Journey to the End of the Night, Brideshead Revisited, Monadology, Escape from Freedom, The Elementary Particles, Science of Knowledge
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0141187492 |
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith,...
| Author | Zadie Smith |
| ISBN | 0143037749 |
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three...
Journey to the End of the Night
| Author | Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
| ISBN | 0811216543 |
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926345 |
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian...
| Author | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
| ISBN | 0822954494 |
G.W. Leibniz' Monadology, one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of the great classics of modern philosophy & one of its most puzzling productions. Because the essay is written in so compactly condensed a fashion, for almost three centuries it has baffled & beguiled...
| Author | Erich Fromm |
| ISBN | 0805031499 |
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published...
| Author | Michel Houellebecq |
| ISBN | 0375727019 |
Brilliant, caustic, comic, and severe,
The Elementary Particles
is an unflinching look at a modern world plagued by consumerism, materialism, and unchecked scientific experimentation.
An international bestseller and controversial literary phenomenon that drew immediate comparison...
| Author | Johann Gottlieb Fichte |
| ISBN | 0521270502 |
Considered by some to be his most important text, this series of lectures given by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) at his home in Berlin in 1804 is widely regarded as the most perspicuous presentation of his fundamental philosophy. Now available in English, this translation provides in striking...
