Philosophical genre books (267)
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Dialoguri de duminică : o introducere în categoriile vieţii by Gabriel Liiceanu RO
RomaniaDescription:
„Ce-ar fi, ne-am zis, ca într-o lume în care totul e sufocat de o pasageră «actualitate», în care totul e agitaţie cotidiană şi surescitare de tip breaking news, să vorbim despre «inactualităţile» durabile ale vieţii, singurele care contează cu adevărat?
Vrând să înţelegem ce se întâmplă cu noi când spunem că «trăim», am căutat să facem un pictorial al vieţii, să surprindem existenţa din diferite unghiuri şi în diferite poziţii. Am vrut să descâlcim nodurile existenţei, am vrut s-o obligăm să... continue
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Die Freiheit, frei zu sein by Hannah Arendt DE
GermanyDescription:
»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.« Was ist Freiheit, und was bedeutet sie uns? Begreifen wir sie nur als die Abwesenheit von Furcht und von Zwängen, oder meint Freiheit nicht vielmehr auch, sich an gesellschaftlichen Prozessen zu beteiligen, eine eigene politische Stimme zu haben, um von anderen gehört, erkannt und schließlich erinnert zu werden? Und: Haben wir diese Freiheit einfach, oder wer gibt sie uns, und kann man sie uns auch wieder wegnehmen? In diesem bisher auf Deutsch unveröffentlichten Essay zeichnet Hannah Arendt die historische Entwicklung des ... continue
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Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker by Joseph Roth DE
UkraineDescription:
his book, one of the most haunting things that Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault EN
FranceDescription:
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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Discourse on Method ; and : Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes EN
Description:
Contains English translations of Descartes' 1637 treatise Discourse on the Method for Conducting One's Reason Well and for Searching for Truth in the Sciences and a subsequent development of the ideas contained in it, Meditations on First Philosophy, first published in 1641. Includes a selected bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin EN
ChinaDescription:
The Chia family experiences a decline in fortune during the Ch'ing dynasty.
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
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Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt EN
Description:
The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusale... continue
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Either/Or : A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard EN
DenmarkDescription:
In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters—the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply "A," and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section—Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expo... continue