Existentialism category: 383 books
The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche; Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Anti-Christ
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are three of Nietzsche's three most important books: The Anti-Christ, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spake Zarathustra, as well as The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken. A perfect book for new readers of Nietzsche or anyone hoping to understand...
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt
The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings...
Existential Monday
Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Benjamin Fondane—who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz—was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, “a...
by Peter Trawny
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
In 2014, the first three volumes of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks—the personal and philosophical notebooks that he kept during the war years*—*were published in Germany. These notebooks provide the first textual evidence of anti-Semitism in Heidegger’s philosophy, not simply in passing remarks,...
Heidegger's Being and Time
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues...
Heidegger's Nietzsche
Being and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Hammering, bombastic, poetic, mystic Nietzsche as seen through the mind of the great ontologist Martin Heidegger is what Dr. Catanu delivers in this new volume. Nietzsche’s thought dissected, critiqued and delimited by the author of “Being and Time” one of the most influential modern philosophers...
Nietzsche and Levinas
"After the Death of a Certain God"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the...
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus
A Roman Slave
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
The philosophy of the ancient Syrian-Roman Publius Syrus defies easy categorization. Part Stoic, part Epicurean, and even part Sceptic and Cynic, the wit and wisdom of this former slave turned playwright transcends doctrine and embraces humanism. His celebrated dramatic works are all but lost –...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
If there are still such things, in this ironic postmodern age, as "dangerous thoughts," surely no book is more overflowing with them than Friedrich Nietzsche's Will to Power. No other great work of recent literature has heralded the decline of modern Western civilization as emphatically....
Kierkegaard
An Essential Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
'Best single source on Kierkegaard I've seen. Excellent short biography of his life and family. Fantastic explanation of how to approach Kierkegaard's ideas… I did spend a lot of time on the Danish philosopher's work as a graduate student (particularly Fear and Trembling) and I do wish that I had...
by Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
One of the elements that many readers admire in Kierkegaard’s skill as a writer is his ability to create different voices and perspectives in his works. Instead of unilaterally presenting clear-cut doctrines and theses, he confronts the reader with a range of personalities and figures who all espouse...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
