Philosophical genre books (184)


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On the Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
In 'On the Genealogy of Morals', Nietzsche exposes the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures.


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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez EN

Rating: 4 (36 votes)
Description:
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

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One, None and a Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the ..".bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...." Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the... continue

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Outline by Rachel Cusk EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a cou... continue

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Paradise Lost by John Milton EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence A Penguin Classic In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked, innocent Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and in danger of executio... continue

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed : 30th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Description:
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confid... continue

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Pequeno Manual Antirracista by Djamila Ribeiro PT

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Onze lições breves para entender as origens do racismo e como combatê-lo. Neste pequeno manual, a filósofa e ativista Djamila Ribeiro trata de temas como atualidade do racismo, negritude, branquitude, violência racial, cultura, desejos e afetos. Em onze capítulos curtos e contundentes, a autora apresenta caminhos de reflexão para aqueles que queiram aprofundar sua percepção sobre discriminações racistas estruturais e assumir a responsabilidade pela transformação do estado das coisas. Já há muitos anos se solidifica a percepção de que o racismo está arraigado em nossa sociedade, criando desigua... continue

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Politiek zonder partijen by Alicja Gescinska NL

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Zijn politieke partijen de oplossing, of eerder een oorzaak van het democratisch deficit en de vele problemen van het politieke theater? De Franse filosofe Simone Weil pleitte in een visionair, postuum gepubliceerd essay voor een radicale afschaffing van alle politieke partijen. Het is een messcherpe analyse, geschreven na het Europese democratische debacle aan de vooravond van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, waarin ze het vaak gewetenloze cynisme van het partijensysteem aanklaagt. Weil gaat op zoek naar alternatieven en een andere manier van politiek voeren.00Filosofe Alicja Gescinska pleitte in vers... continue

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Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy