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Philosophy
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's first major book, published in 1951 and enlarged in 1958, which asks how Nazism and Stalinism, a new form of government, became possible. It has three…
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Mythologies
A collection of short essays on French everyday life, written mostly as a monthly column between 1954 and 1956, followed by a long theoretical essay. Barthes reads ordinary…
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Being and Time
Heidegger's main work, published in 1927 and left unfinished: only the first two divisions of a planned six appeared. It reopens the question of the meaning of Being,…
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Escape from Freedom (The Fear of Freedom)
A study in social psychology by the German-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, written in exile in the United States and published in 1941; in Britain it appeared as The…
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Oneself as Another
A series of ten studies on the self, grown out of Ricoeur's Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. He steers between philosophies that make the self a certain foundation, as…
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The Question Concerning Technology
A lecture Heidegger gave in Munich in 1953, developed from his Bremen lectures of 1949 and published in 1954. It asks what the essence of technology is, and…
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Man’s Search for Meaning
A short book by the Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, first published in German in 1946, soon after his release from the Nazi camps, and in English in 1959.…
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Speculum of the Other Woman
Irigaray's doctoral thesis, a critique of how Western philosophy and psychoanalysis have imagined woman. Its title plays on the speculum as both a curved mirror and a medical…
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Being and Nothingness
Sartre's major philosophical treatise, published in 1943 with the subtitle 'An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology'. Building on Husserl and Heidegger, it divides reality into being-in-itself, the solid, self-identical…
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The Courage to Be
A book by the German-American theologian Paul Tillich, based on his Terry Lectures at Yale and published in 1952. Tillich treats courage as the self-affirmation of being in…
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