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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A philosophical narrative in four parts, written in a biblical, poetic style and published between 1883 and 1885, the last part in a small private printing. It follows…
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Beyond Good and Evil
A book of nine parts made of numbered sections, published in 1886 and subtitled a prelude to a philosophy of the future. It opens by asking why philosophers…
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The Gay Science
A collection of aphorisms and short reflections first published in 1882 and reissued in 1887 with a new preface, a fifth book and an appendix of songs. The…
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System of Transcendental Idealism
The most systematic book of the young Schelling, published in 1800 while he was teaching at Jena among the early Romantics and was still allied with Fichte. It…
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The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche's first book, published in 1872 while he was a young professor of classical philology at Basel, and dedicated to Richard Wagner. It argues that Greek tragedy arose…
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The World as Will and Representation
Schopenhauer's main work, published when he was thirty and greatly expanded in 1844 with a second volume of supplementary essays. The first volume has four books. The first…
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Twilight of the Idols
A short book written quickly in the late summer of 1888 and published in January 1889, in the same month that Nietzsche's mental collapse ended his working life.…
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Either/Or
Kierkegaard's first major pseudonymous work, presented as papers found in a second-hand writing desk by an editor called Victor Eremita. The first part contains the writings of 'A',…
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Essays: First Series
Emerson's first collection of essays, published in 1841, which reworked material from his journals and lectures into twelve pieces: 'History', 'Self-Reliance', 'Compensation', 'Spiritual Laws', 'Love', 'Friendship', 'Prudence', 'Heroism',…
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The Sickness unto Death
A short, dense work published in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, with Kierkegaard named as editor, and described on its title page as a Christian psychological exposition for…
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