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Existentialism eBooks

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  • The Myth of Sisyphus

    by Albert Camus, James Wood ...
    Translated by Justin O'Brien ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living?'What I touch, what resists me - that is what I understand'As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus condemned forever to roll a rock up a hill ... Read more

    R183,99

  • The Fall

    by Albert Camus ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience' The New York TimesJean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall (1956) is a ... Read more

    R165,59

  • Cosmos and Psyche

    Intimations of a New World View

    by Richard Tarnas ...
    A groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world—the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods.In these pages, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, and on ... Read more

    R137,87

  • The Outsider

    by Albert Camus ...
    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
    Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society - a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason ... Read more

    R147,19

  • The Aristos

    by John Fowles ...
    Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos, 'of a person or thing, the best or most excellent its kind'. ... Read more

    R239,19

  • The Trouble With Being Born

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning.In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and ... Read more

    R202,39

  • Irrational Man

    A Study in Existential Philosophy

    by William Barrett ...
    Widely recognized as one of the finest introductions to existentialist philosophy ever written, Irrational Man helped introduce existentialism to an American audience when it was first published in 1958.Barrett writes with eloquence and clarity about concerns that remain as relevant today as ever: the persistence of the irrational and absurd, the search for meaning in a fractured world, and ... Read more

    R93,60

  • The History of Philosophy

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday TimesThe story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of ... Read more

    R275,99

  • The Divided Self

    An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

    by R. D. Laing ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience.First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, ... Read more

    R202,39

  • Autumn Leaves

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Elsie Pell ...
    This collection of reflective essays forms a "spiritual autobiography" of André Gide, a key figure of French lettersAndré Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines his memories and personal observations in this collection of essays. Gide's reflections and commentary masterfully showcase his delicate writing style and evocative sensibility, yielding new insights on ... Read more

    R227,46 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Douze Preuves de l’inexistence de Dieu

    by Sébastien Faure ...
    Camarades, il y a deux façons d’étudier et de tenter de résoudre le problème de l’inexistence de Dieu.  La première consiste à éliminer l’hypothèse Dieu du champ des conjectures plausibles ou nécessaires par  une explication claire et précise par l’exposé d’un système positif de l’Univers, de ses origines, de ses  développements successifs, de ses fins. Cet expos&eacu... ... Read more

    R34,70

  • Relation de la mort du chevalier de La Barre

    by Voltaire ...
    Il semble, monsieur, que toutes les fois qu’un génie bienfaisant cherche à rendre service au genre humain, un démon funeste s’élève aussitôt pour détruire l’ouvrage de la raison. À peine eûtes-vous instruit l’Europe par votre excellent livre sur les délits et les peines, qu’un homme qui se dit jurisconsulte, écrivit contre vous en France. Vous aviez soutenu la cause de l’humanité, et il fut l ... Read more

    R35,66

  • AS TRÊS TRANSFORMAÇÕES DO ESPÍRITO

    O CAMELO, O LEÃO & A CRIANÇA

    by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA ...
    (A5, 138 p.) - Parafraseando Hannah Arendt:“O que é verdadeiro para o espírito nem sempre é verdadeiro para a alma” e, nesse sentido, o Cartesianismo fez a sua escolha: preferiu ficar só com o espírito e abriu mão da sua alma. (1971 – A vida do espírito)Esta obra procurará aprofundar questionamentos sobre a condição humana e, ao mesmo tempo, apontar caminhos (do ponto de vista da retomada dos ... Read more

    R162,51

  • The Professor of Love 1

    The Professor of Love, #1

    by Don Nieve ...
    Series Book 1 - The Professor of Love
    A young man is plunged into a terrible depression, due to his recent separation after many years of relationship with his first love. A strange message, which arrives on his laptop, challenges him to embark on a spiritual journey, which will take him to the Himalayan lands... and even beyond.Written in satirical tone and in first person, the story is peppered with references to the twenties, ... Read more

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  • God’S Illusion Machine

    The Vedic Alternative to Richard Dawkins’S God Delusion

    by Mäyeçvara däsa ...
    In the tidal wave of intellectual argument that followed the 2006 release of Richard Dawkinss God Delusion book, a fierce debate has raged between atheism and religion over the existence of God, leaving the worlds scientists and laymen largely undecided in their opinion. Gods Illusion Machine presents a fascinating alternative to a debate that has largely been argued within the framework of ... Read more

    R86,93

  • Welcome to Our Real Matrix

    One With No Escape

    by Tom Arant ...
    Did you know that we (and all life) are unknowingly imprisoned? That what you think is Reality has little to do with the truth? In these ways, our existence is like the virtual reality in the movie, The Matrix.The differences are more overwhelming, including that our Real Matrix emerged through biological processes without any intention nor direction (i.e., no sentient machines), and that there is ... Read more

    R90,61

  • Stoic Six Pack 9

    The PreSocratics

    by Benjamin Cocker, George Grote, William Arthur Heidel, John Marshall ...
    The philosophers who preceded Socrates (469 - 399 BC), the PreSocratics, were the first recorded individuals to reject mythological explanations for the unknown. Aristotle called the PreSocratics physikoi meaning physicists, after physis, nature, because they sought natural explanations for phenomena, as opposed to the earlier theologoi, theologians, whose philosophical basis was supernatural. The ... Read more

    R167,96

  • The Complete Works of Arthur Schopenhauer

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will.This collection includes the following:THE ART OF LITERATURECOUNSELS AND MAXIMSTHE ART OF CONTROVERSYSTUDIES IN PESSIMISMON HUMAN NATURETHE WISDOM OF LIFERELIGION, A DIALOGUE, ... Read more

    R50,38

  • Phenomenology and Logic

    The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, Volume 18

    by Bernard Lonergan ...
    Series Book 18 - Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
    Collected here for the first time, this series of lectures delivered by Lonergan at Boston College in 1957 illustrates a pivotal time in Lonergan's intellectual history, marking both the transition from the faculty psychology still present in his work Insight to intentionality analysis and his initial differentiation of the existential level of consciousness.The lectures on logic deal with the ... Read more

    R671,82

  • Twilight of the Idols (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Anthony M.. Ludovici ...
    Series series Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
    Never one to back away from controversy, Friedrich Nietzsche assails the Christian Church in Twilight of the Idols.  In this classic work, he sets out to substitute the morality of the Catholic and the Protestant Churches with that of Dionysian morality.  Twilight of the Idols furthermore lays the foundation for key arguments that Nietzsche more fully develops in later writings. ... Read more

    R59,90

  • O Leão & A Gazela: Dialética do Esclarecimento

    by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA ...
    (A5, 148 Páginas) -Nas palavras de Karl Marx:“Para ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade e/ou a nossa condição social) é preciso, antes, ser capaz de transformar-se...”Eis aí o real sentido desse livro:“Pode alguém vir a transformar-se sem o acesso ao esclarecimento, sem a tomada de consciência crítica de si e de mundo e/ou sem ser capaz de aprender a pensar, além de somente (por meio das ... Read more

    R134,45

  • Fate and Freedom Volume 2

    by Andrew Mason ...
    Fate and Freedom Volume 2 builds on the paths of thought opened up in volume 1 with a series of investigations engaging significant figures in both modern and ancient, eastern and western thought. 'Energy and Freedom' uses Pierre Klossowski's thought-provoking book Sade My Neighbour as a spur to probe the ambiguous relationship between these two terms and the ambiguous status of desire in ... Read more

    R133,61

  • Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient

    by Denis Diderot ...
    Je me doutais bien, madame1, que l’aveugle-né, à qui M. de Réaumur vient de faire abattre la cataracte, ne nous apprendrait pas ce que vous vouliez savoir ; mais je n’avais garde de deviner que ce ne serait ni sa faute, ni la vôtre. J’ai sollicité son bienfaiteur par moi-même, par ses meilleurs amis, par les compliments que je lui ai faits ; nous n’en avons rien obtenu, et le premier appareil se ... Read more

    R35,66

  • 徘徊於天人之際：海德格的哲學思路

    by 關子尹 ...
    然則蘋果樹不會議論蘋果，而只負載之，待到秋熟，便讓它們墜下來。（GA-97: 222）從形而上的角度看，思慮比哲學要簡單得多，但正因為其簡單，故實行起來卻困難許多。（GA-16: 709）——海德格德國哲學家海德格對二十世紀思想界影響重大，在當代華語世界亦深受重視。但他也是位謎樣的哲人，用詞撲朔迷離，著述晦澀難解，學說跡近玄秘，而其納粹往跡，更曾引起過多番重大爭議。如何在他迷宮般的用語中，辨識出持續不變的核心關懷？又如何公允地理解他的思想，闡明其中對於現代文明危機的洞察？《徘徊於天人之際》是關子尹研究海德格哲學三十多年的集大成之作，精湛而深刻地詮釋這位謎樣哲人的思想，並給予其批判性的定位，為海德格學說提供了清晰且獨到的見解。書中除討論海德格的主要著作《存在與時間》之理論佈局、其「生命圖式」學說和「時間性」... ... Read more

    R248,32