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Top 10 Penguin Great Ideas : A Tale of a Tub, The First Ten Books (Penguin Great Ideas), Of Human Freedom, On Friendship, On Suicide, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom, Some Anatomies of Melancholy, An Apology for Idlers, In Consolation to His Wife

A Tale of a Tub
AuthorJonathan Swift
ISBN0141018879
'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity....
The First Ten Books (Penguin Great Ideas)
AuthorConfucius
ISBN0141023805
Perhaps the most widely read thinker of all time, Confucius transformed Chinese philosophy with his belief that the greatest goal in life was pursuit of 'The Way': a search for virtue not as a means to rewards in this world or the next, but as the pinnacle of human existence.

Throughout history,...
Of Human Freedom
AuthorEpictetus
ISBN0141192356
Το βιβλίο περιλαμβάνει τη νεοελληνική απόδοση έξι κειμένων επιλεγμένων από τις Διατριβές του Επίκτητου.
οι ήρωες του Επίκτητου στην Ελευθερία δεν...
On Friendship
AuthorMichel de Montaigne
ISBN0141018860
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
On Suicide
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0141023953
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
AuthorWalter Benjamin
ISBN0141036192
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
Some Anatomies of Melancholy
AuthorRobert Burton
ISBN0141036788
Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination...
An Apology for Idlers
AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
ISBN0141043962
“ Boswell: ci si annoia a starcene qui in ozio.
Johnson: ciò accade, signore, perché gli altri stanno lavorando, ci manca la compagnia. Se tutti stessimo in ozio, nessuno si annoierebbe, ci divertiremmo tutti a vicenda”.

Un breve saggio sull’ozio, sull’aridità di chi, lavorando...
In Consolation to His Wife
AuthorPlutarch
From an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch’s powerful words of consolation and inspiration still offer timeless wisdom and guidance today.

Throughout history,...
On Solitude
AuthorMichel de Montaigne
ISBN0141043857
Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination,...
An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed & Exhausted Peoples of Europe
AuthorLeon Trotsky
ISBN0141036753
Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin during his years of exile, Trotsky’s speeches give an extraordinary insight into a man whose words and actions determined the fates of millions.

Throughout history,...
Human Happiness
AuthorBlaise Pascal
ISBN0141036796
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life – or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best.

Throughout history,...
On the Nature of War
AuthorCarl von Clausewitz
ISBN0141023945
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
Sensation and Sex
AuthorLucretius
ISBN0141023821
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves & each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war & revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked & comforted. They have enriched lives & destroyed them. Now Penguin...
Of Man
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0141023902
I like Thomas Hobbes. Fairly like his contemporary Descartes, investigating all systems around himself, but without the heavy predisposition for god. Besides the social contract, already here are the seeds of much else that is to come, and be chiefly attributed to others: physical explanation for...
Useful Work versus Useless Toil
AuthorWilliam Morris
ISBN0141036702
Morris wrote before the socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th century, and the ensuing disaster for the "working classes", as well as the middle classes.
Morris's vision was an essentially romantic one, where equality prevails and where ordinary people do productive and satisfying...
Miracles and Idolatry
AuthorVoltaire
ISBN0141023929
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
The Lamp of Memory
AuthorJohn Ruskin
ISBN0141036672
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential – not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths.

Throughout...
The Spectacle of the Scaffold
AuthorMichel Foucault
ISBN0141036648
Bits of this are pretty interesting, for example a part about how any evidence against a person, even if circumstantial, used to be sufficient for that person to be considered at least a little guilty - not just more likely to eventually be found guilty, but actually guilty already. Guilty enough for...
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