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Philosophy
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel's first major book, finished in Jena in 1806 as Napoleon's army arrived, traces the path by which consciousness, starting from the simplest claim to know, is driven…
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Light of the Lord
The main philosophical work of Hasdai Crescas, a leading rabbi of Aragon, completed in 1410, two decades after the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 in which his son was…
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Arendt's report on the 1961 trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer who organised the deportation of Jews to the death camps, first published as a…
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The City of God
Augustine began this enormous work, in twenty-two books, after the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410, when pagans blamed the disaster on the abandonment of the…
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Summa of Logic
Ockham's comprehensive textbook of logic, in three parts: on terms, on propositions, and on arguments, the last covering syllogisms, consequences, demonstration and fallacies. The first part contains his…
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The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan, a widow who supported her family by writing for the French court, opens the book in her study, dejected after reading yet another misogynist text…
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The Souls of Black Folk
Fourteen chapters, thirteen essays and a short story, several revised from earlier magazine pieces, in which Du Bois sets out to show the spiritual world of Black Americans…
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Black Skin, White Masks
Fanon's first book, written while he was training in medicine and psychiatry in Lyon, analyses the psychology of colonial racism from the standpoint of a Black man from…
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African Philosophy: Myth and Reality
A collection of essays by the Beninese philosopher Paulin Hountondji that became a starting point of the debate over what African philosophy is. Hountondji attacks what he calls…
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Sage Philosophy: Indigenous Thinkers and Modern Debate on African Philosophy
The Kenyan philosopher H. Odera Oruka's answer to the question whether there was philosophy in Africa before writing. Against both ethnophilosophy, which attributed a single worldview to whole…
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