Existentialism category: 383 books
Understanding Objectivism
A Guide to Learning Ayn Rand's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Based on a series of lectures given in 1983 by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, Understanding Objectivism offers a deeper and more profound study of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and outlines a methodology of how to approach the study of Objectivism and apply its principles to one's life.
For the legions of readers...
by Abné M. Eisenberg Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This is the perfect book for an intellectually bored individual. In it, the author shares a serendipitous collection of his thoughts on a wide variety of conventional and unconventional topics. Professor Eisenberg has spent the past six decades challenging his students to think outside the proverbial...
Egocentricity and Mysticism
An Anthropological Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In Egocentricity and Mysticism, Ernst Tugendhat casts mysticism as an innate facet of what it means to be human—a response to an existential need for peace of mind. This need is created by our discursive practices, which serve to differentiate us from one another and privilege our respective first-person...
by Roger Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The human mind is deeply mysterious, and it is possible that no one has ever completely understood just how the mind actually works. The mind does not let you see inside of it, in fact always throwing you out into the sensory, everyday life around you. So how do we turn inward and lift the veil on...
Becoming Nietzsche
Early Reflections on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Becoming Nietzsche is an essential book for understanding Nietzsche's philosophical genealogy from 1866 to 1868, a phase that is punctuated by the influence of Friedrich Lange and a surprising rejection of Schopenhauer's theory of the will. During this phase, Nietzsche focuses on the scientific and...
I'll Be Dead by the Time You Read This
The Existential Life of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
"Each image winks at the cosmic joke of existence." -Antenna Magazine
If you've ever eavesdropped on people's conversations, had heart-to- hearts with friends or family, or even just paid attention to the thoughts bouncing around in your own head, you'll undoubtedly find that we humans have,...
Volume 15, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Concepts
Absolute to Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development...
The Incurious Seekers Quest for Meaning
Heidegger, Mood and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The paradox within the title of this book refers to its principal theme, that of elucidating our innate capacity to transform/convert from an inauthentic everyday mode of being to an authentic one. This study provides an analysis of affect as a means of highlighting a number of key points of contact...
Volume 18, Tome I: Kierkegaard Secondary Literature
Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, and Dutch
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In recent years interest in the thought of Kierkegaard has grown dramatically, and with it the body of secondary literature has expanded so quickly that it has become impossible for even the most conscientious scholar to keep pace. The problem of the explosion of secondary literature is made more...
Petit panthéon portatif
Althusser, Borreil, Canguilhem, Cavaillès, G. Châtelet, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Hyppolite, Lacan, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, F. Proust, Sartre
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2008
" Ceux qui, aux alentours de 1965, avaient entre vingt et trente ans, ont alors rencontré un nombre exceptionnel de maîtres dans le champ de la philosophie.
Les anciens comme Sartre, Lacan ou Canguilhem, étaient encore en pleine activité ; d'un peu plus jeunes, comme Althusser, déployaient...
Beyond Good and Evil (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“Supposing that truth is a women—what then?” This is the very first sentence in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil.Not very often are philosophers so disarmingly explicit in their intention to discomfort the reader. In fact, one might say that the natural state of Nietzsche’s reader is one...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The Birth of Tragedy argues the importance of the tension between what Nietzsche called Apollonian and Dionysian forces. These contrasting forces enable a work of art to reveal the truth about human existence in such a way that we are able to bear the weight of its tragic wisdom. Nietzsche boldly...
Philosophie analytique
(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Traditionnellement, les philosophes ne s'accordent ni sur la nature de leurs problèmes, ni sur le genre de solutions qui leur convient, ni sur le type de preuve qui caractérise leur argumentation. Le plus clair résultat de la « révolution » analytique, comme on a appelé la réaction anglaise...
Logique
(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Ce n'est qu'à une époque relativement récente qu'on a vraiment commencé à s'intéresser à l'histoire de la logique. Jusqu'au milieu du XIXe siècle régnait en effet l'idée que la logique n'avait pas d'histoire, étant, pour l'essentiel, sortie « close et achevée » de l'esprit d' Aristote....