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Philosophy
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Time and Free Will
Bergson's doctoral thesis and first book, published in 1889 as an essay on the immediate data of consciousness. Chapter 1 argues that psychological states such as feelings and…
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Truth and Method
The founding work of philosophical hermeneutics. Gadamer argues that the truth we meet in art, history and texts cannot be captured by the method of the natural sciences.…
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Way to Wisdom
A short introduction to philosophy by the German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers, first given as twelve radio lectures and published in 1950. Jaspers presents philosophy not as…
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Discipline and Punish
A history of punishment in France and Europe, subtitled The Birth of the Prison, that becomes an analysis of modern power. It opens with the public torture and…
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The Revolt of the Masses
A book by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, serialised in a Madrid newspaper from 1929 and published in 1930. It opens with a plain observation: everywhere…
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge
A short book that opened a projected history of sexuality and became one of Foucault's most read works. It begins by challenging the repressive hypothesis: the common view…
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The Tragic Sense of Life
The main philosophical work of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, published in 1913. It starts not from abstract humanity but from 'the man of flesh and bone'…
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Of Grammatology
One of three books Derrida published in 1967, and the one most closely tied to the method later called deconstruction. Part One argues that Western philosophy has been…
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The Subjection of Women
A book-length essay written in 1861 and published in 1869, in which Mill argues for full legal and social equality between women and men. He credited much of…
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The Methods of Ethics
A long, careful treatise first published in 1874 and revised by Sidgwick through several editions, the last appearing in 1907, after his death in 1900. Rather than defend…
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