The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

9 best books like The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Ernst Cassirer): Invisible Cities, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, The Sound and the Fury, Ethics, Existential Psychotherapy, The Love of a Good Woman, Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays, L'ultima lacrima, زنده به‌گور

Invisible Cities

Author	Italo Calvino
ISBN	0156453800

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So...

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

Author	Machado de Assis
ISBN	0850515025

a sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery

we read an author and wonder 'how is it possible that this genius is not known?'... yes, only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. along with carpentier and mutis, he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot.

here are three reasons...

The Sound and the Fury

Author

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed...

Ethics

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...

Existential Psychotherapy

Author	Irvin D. Yalom
ISBN	0465021476

I love this book! I've heard people, again and again, make the assertion that philosophy, and in particular existential philosophy, has no real-life, down-to-earth, practical use. Well, Irvin Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy proves that to be false.

Yalom draws on the insights of existentialism...

The Love of a Good Woman

Author	Alice Munro
ISBN	0099287862

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable,...

Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

Author	Bronisław Malinowski
ISBN	0881336572

Three famous Malinowski essays! Malinowski, one of the all-time great anthropologists of the world, had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions of science. His pages have become an almost indispensable link between the knowing...

L'ultima lacrima

Author	Stefano Benni
ISBN	8807014793

E se un Bancomat cominciasse a parlare, sapesse tutto di voi e vi proponesse un affare vantaggioso? Stefano Benni sa dove la realtà cova i suoi mostri - mostri di ieri, mostri di oggi e mostri che spiano dal futuro-, li va a cercare, li stana, li fa sfilare trovando per ciascuno una storia e legandoli tutti...

زنده به‌گور

Author

Sadegh Hedayat

Zende be gūr = Buried Alive, Sadegh Hedayat
1930 Buried Alive (Zende be gūr). A collection of 9 short stories. Many of us die when we're still walk and talk and live! but only a few realize the death of themselves. I don't believe in faith but when it comes to depression I admit that it's one of the few...