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Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession": the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession".
The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred...
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Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians...
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Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable...
4) Pragmatism
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William James, who has been called the "father of American psychology", was one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, William James established the school of thought known as "Pragmatism", a philosophy which rejected the idea that language and thought exists simply to represent nature, but rather it must be useful in transacting with nature, in predicting outcomes, and solving problems. First published...
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German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was one the most controversial figures of the 19th century. His evocative writings on religion, morality, culture, philosophy, and science were often polemic attacks against the established views of his time. First published in 1872, "The Birth of Tragedy" is the author's classic work on dramatic theory. It was the author's first published work in which he exhibited his enthusiasm for the dramatic works of Aeschylus...
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« L'existence précède l'essence. » Cette locution bien connue de Jean-Paul Sartre est au centre de son ouvrage L'existentialisme est un humanisme, dont la vocation est de répondre à ses détracteurs en argumentant sa thèse existentialiste et, par là même, rendre sa pensée accessible à un public plus élargi. Si ses idées font toujours débat aujourd'hui, Sartre a le mérite d'avoir marqué son époque par sa personnalité multiple d'écrivain...
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Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University's Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return.
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Thoreau's autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and, above all, the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him.
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This book aims to wrest the concept of narcissism from its common and pejorative meanings- egoism and vanity-by revealing its complexity and importance. DeArmitt undertakes the work of rehabilitating "narcissism" by patiently reexamining the terms and figures that have been associated with it, especially in the writings of Rousseau, Kristeva, and Derrida. These thinkers are known for incisively exposing a certain (traditional) narcissism that has...
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What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all set against a rich and humane conception of what makes for a flourishing life. Adam Beresford's freshly researched translation presents many of Aristotle's key terms and...
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Que faut-il retenir de L'Existentialisme est un humanisme, l'ouvrage philosophique emblématique du courant existentialiste ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
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The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking at four direct encounters between philosophers and thespians, beginning with Socrates, Agathon, and Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium and ending with a discussion between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht about a short text by Franz Kafka. Rokem also...
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The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Antigone has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist...
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Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.
Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory in order to expand the range of cultural analyses of the former and make the latter theoretically relevant to the demands of contemporary narratives of othering, exclusion, and cultural appropriation. Seeking to resolve...
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Offers a constructive new approach to the debate between hermeneutics and deconstruction.
Written in the aftermath of the deaths of the French philosophers Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), this book is an important and innovative study of the contentious relation between deconstruction and hermeneutics. Offering close readings of Derrida's and Ricoeur's writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralist linguistics,...
17) Ballena
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La aparición de una ballena blanca varada en la orilla se convierte en el mayor acontecimiento de un pequeño pueblo de costa, como un rumor impreciso primero, hasta que Pierre y Odile, la pareja protagonista de este relato, deciden caminar hasta la playa para desentrañar su enigma.
Con su aire de fábula clásica, el ruido de fondo de la guerra mundial, y su estilo inspirado, preciso y ágil para cambiar de perspectiva, Ballena condensa en pocas...
18) Le Prince
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Extrait: "Tous les Etats, toutes les dominations qui ont tenu et tiennent encore les hommes sous leur empire, ont été et sont ou des républiques ou des principautés. Les principautés sont ou héréditaires ou nouvelles. Les héréditaires sont celles qui ont été longtemps possédées par la famille de leur prince."
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Publiée en 1947, La Peste s'inscrit dans le cycle de la révolte, qui constitue une réponse à l'absurde de la vie. Dans ce roman, l'auteur évoque une épidémie contre laquelle doit se battre la population d'Oran, malgré les souffrances qu'elle engendre. Mais derrière ce fléau se cache un mal plus allégorique qui représente le nazisme, mais aussi la lutte de l'homme contre sa condition et contre la mort.
Après avoir raconté la vie de...
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