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Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. It is, considered his most brilliant work. In it, he states his views on the broad question of man's place in the world. It seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines...
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"Fired with a fearless iconoclasm which surpassed the wildest dreams of contemporary free thought" - The New York Times
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written - an essential summary of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God....
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The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an...
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A new collection of twenty-two literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee J.M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, but he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-two pieces, he examines the work of some of the world's greatest writers-from Daniel Defoe and Samuel Beckett to Irene Nemirovsky and Goethe. Challenging...