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50 philosophy classics : your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning / Tom Butler-Bowdon.
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world. This is the thinking person's guide to a uniquely powerful tool for opening our minds and helping us view the world. It synthesises the 50 greatest books ever written, distilling hundreds of ideas from across the centuries with insightful commentary, key quotes and biographical information on the authors.
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- ISBN: 9781399800976
- ISBN: 1399800973
- Physical Description: xi, 329 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: Updated edition.
- Publisher: London : Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022.
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| General Note: | Originally published: 2013. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica (1274) -- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958) -- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC) -- A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) -- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981) -- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) -- Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) -- Isaiah Berlin, The hedgehog and the fox (1953) -- David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) -- Judith Butler, Gender trouble (1990) -- Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power (2002) -- Cicero, On Duties (44 BC) -- Confucius, Analects (5th century BC) -- René Descartes, Meditations on first philosophy (1641) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fate (1860) -- Epicurus, Letters (3rd century BC) -- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966) -- Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit (2005) -- G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) -- Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) -- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) -- William James, Pragmatism (1907) -- Immanuel Kant, Critique of pure reason (1781) -- Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843) -- Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity (1972) -- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) -- Gottfried Leibniz, Theodicy (1710) -- John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) -- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513) -- Marshall McLuhan, The medium is the massage (1967) -- Mary Midgley, The myths we live by (2003) -- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) -- Michel de Montaigne, Essays (1580) -- Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (1970) -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886) -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1660) -- Plato, The Republic (4th century BC) -- Plotinus, The enneads (3rd century) -- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) -- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) -- Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1930) -- Michael Sandel, The tyranny of merit (2020) -- Jean Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943) -- Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1818) -- Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save (2009) -- Peter Sloterdijk, You must change your life (2013) -- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677) -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (2007) -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953) -- 50 More Philosophy Classics. |
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