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The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's "The Sickness Unto Death" explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. Throughout history, some bo ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
The State as a Work of Art by Jacob Burckhardt
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Pioneering art historian Jacob Burckhardt saw the Italian Renaissance as no less than the beginning of the modern world. In this hugely influential work, he argues that the Renaissance's creativity, competitiveness, dynasties, great city-states and even its vicious rulers sowed the seeds of a new era. " ...Show more
The Symposium by Plato
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
The Tao of Nature by Chuang Tzu
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and charming philosophy ever written, "The Tao of Nature" is also about perfection, perception, the value of ski ...Show more
The 'Wolfman' by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his real problem - that of infantile neurosis brought about by a sexual complex and an Oedipal fixation. "Great Id ...Show more
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books ...Show more
Three Japanese Buddhist Monks (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Saigyo; Kamo no Chomei; Yoshida Kenko
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky' These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offer peace and wisdom amid the world's uncertainties, and are an invitation to relinquish earthly desires and instead ta ...Show more
Utopia by MORE THOMAS
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
In "Utopia" Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity. Throughout hi ...Show more
We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End by Winston Churchill
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Category: Default | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
'Wars are not won by evacuations'. 'We can take it'! 'Westward look, the land is bright'. This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 after Dunkirk, and ...Show more
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own des ...Show more
When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Women so empowered are dangerous' Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as 'other'. One ...Show more