Existentialism category: 383 books

The term "psychogeography" is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas, from ley lines and the occult to urban walking and political radicalism—where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? Psychogeography is the point where psychology and geography meet in assessing the...

The Critique of Judgment, or in the new Cambridge translation Critique of the Power of Judgment, also known as the third Critique, is a 1790 philosophical piece of writing by Immanuel Kant. In it, Kant lays the foundations for modern aesthetics. This edition has formatted for your reader, with an...

HEINZ DUTHEL   Before the Birth... who are you? After the Death... Where are you? All Creation passing trough this round will be free. No one can be lost. A Child comes into the world crawling and without teeth, and the old mans get out without teeth...

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Myth of Sisyphus with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, a philosophical essay which focuses on the issue of suicide in an absurd world. Camus uses Greek mythology...

Salon bourgeois d’un goût fantaisiste, où tous les styles se mêlent. Aux murs, des estampes licencieuses du xviiie siècle. Sur la cheminée, un buste de philosophe antique. Sur la table, une petite Bastille. Un berceau d’enfant dans un coin de la chambre. Une fenêtre...

The book offers an elucidation of two of the most important themes in Martin Heidegger’s early as well as later philosophical writings. These perennial themes of his thought, namely, the concept of the world and his existential analysis of death, are explored as the ongoing philosophical problems...

The Psalms of Mortality are a thematically organized collection of aphorisms that border poetry in literature style. The chapters are rich in metaphors and powerfully expressive in the existential- and psychological thoughts on liberty, elevation of self-worth, love and value of life, while placing...

"Boy Wanted," presented as "a book of cheerful counsel to his young friends and such of the seniors as are not too old to accept a bit of friendly admonition." In the present volume, as in "Boy Wanted," the fine prose thoughts are selected from the writings of...

How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward...

Dieses eBook: "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben ist ein 1903 erschienener Aufsatz des Soziologen Georg Simmel, mit dem dieser die Grundlagen...

Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben ist ein 1903 erschienener Aufsatz des Soziologen Georg Simmel, mit dem dieser die Grundlagen der Stadtsoziologie schuf. Das tiefste Problem des modernen Lebens ist nach Georg Simmel der Anspruch des Individuums nach der Selbstständigkeit und Eigenart seines Daseins...

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...

The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance...

Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works. It also explores why continental philosophy after Nietzsche is so fascinated with madness, and how it (re)considers, (re)evaluates and...