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Philosophy
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The Ego and Its Own
The only major book by Max Stirner, the pen name of Johann Caspar Schmidt, a Berlin teacher on the edge of the Young Hegelian circle. Published in 1844,…
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Gravity and Grace
A collection of short passages from the notebooks of the French philosopher Simone Weil, selected and arranged by her friend Gustave Thibon and published in 1947, four years…
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Difference and Repetition
Deleuze's main thesis for his state doctorate and the most systematic statement of his own philosophy. Its target is the philosophy of representation, which since Plato and Aristotle…
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A Confession
A short autobiographical work written in 1879–80, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties, famous and prosperous, with War and Peace and Anna Karenina behind him. Church censors…
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The Need for Roots
Simone Weil's last book, written in London in 1943 for the Free French, who had asked her for ideas on how France might be rebuilt after the war.…
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The Postmodern Condition
A short report on the state of knowledge in the most developed societies, written at the request of the Quebec government's council of universities and subtitled A Report…
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Logical Investigations
Husserl's breakthrough work, published in two volumes in 1900 and 1901, and the book that launched phenomenology. Volume One, the Prolegomena to Pure Logic, attacks psychologism: the view…
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On the Problem of Empathy
Edith Stein's doctoral dissertation, written under Edmund Husserl, completed at Freiburg in 1916 and published in 1917. It asks how we experience other people's experiences. Stein argues that…
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Simulacra and Simulation
A collection of essays arguing that in media-saturated societies, signs no longer represent reality but replace it. The opening essay, The Precession of Simulacra, starts from Borges's fable…
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The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Husserl's last work, developed from lectures given in Vienna and Prague in 1935. Parts I and II appeared in 1936; the rest stayed among his papers and was…
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