Philosophical genre books (108)


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The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
The Captive Mind examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.

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The Church of Mercy : A Vision for the Church by Pope Francis EN

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Pope Francis has captured the world's attention with his seemingly counterintuitive approach to leadership. In The Church of Mercy, readers get a first-hand look at Pope Francis's vision of the good news of Christian hope and mercy. Designed for a broad readership, The Church of Mercy is a compilation of essays, speeches, and homilies by Pope Francis since his election on being a church that exists among and for the people, solidarity with the poor, and the need to demolish the idols of power and money.

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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. This new edition includes an extensive introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones, Britain's leading expert on Marx and Marxism, providing a complete course for... continue

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The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan flag Kyrgyzstan
Description:
" . . . a rewarding book." —Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes and the infinite reaches of galactic space, this powerful novel offers a vivid view of the culture and values of the Soviet Union's Central Asian peoples.

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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation by Paulo Coelho EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In ... continue

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The Disconnected by Oguz Atay EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
“My life was a game, but I wanted it to be taken seriously,” says Selim, the anti-hero of the novel. But the game has a terrible end with his suicide, and his friend Turgut’s quest to understand this is the story of the book. He meets friends whom Selim had kept separate from each other, he finds documents in a kaleidoscopic variety of styles, sometimes hugely funny, sometimes very moving, as Selim rails against the ugliness of his world whether in satire or in a howl of anguish, taking refuge in words and loneliness. Under layers of fantasy is the central concept of the D... continue

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The Divine Comedy : The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso by Dante Alighieri EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
For the first time, John Ciardi's translations of Dante's three soaring canticles have been gathered together in a single volume.

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The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.

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The Fall by Albert Camus EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
Description:
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR • One of the most widely read novels of all time—from one of the best-known writers of all time—about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition. Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.