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One of the most important philosophical works of our time -- a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has literally changed the intellectual map of the modern world.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. With blazing intensity and poetic... (more)

Beyond Good And Evil

by R. J. Hollingdale, Marion Faber, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Judith Norman, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Helen Zimmern, Walter Kaufmann

New chronology and further reading Translated by R. J. Hollingdale Introduction by Michael Tanner.

Hegel : The Essential Writings

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Pha?nomenologie des Geistes. (English)

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader understand this most difficult and most influential of Hegel's works.

by Karl Marx

The Philosophy of History (1900)

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Spirit, and in the History of the World regard everything as only its manifestation, we have, in traversing the past— however extensive its periods—only to do with what is present; for philosophy, as occupying itself with the True,... (more)

Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)

Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)

by Immanuel Kant, Patricia Kitcher, Allen W. Wood, Werner S. Pluhar

Eighteenth century philosophy was in a crisis, the schism between rationalism and empiricism complicating the dispute over the status of religion and the threat of science. Committed equally to reason and experience, science and morality, Kant's aim was to place these concerns on a secure basis while limiting their claim to unqualified truth: the result is the Critique of Pure Reason (1781), a decisively ... (more)

The World As Will and Representation (2-Volume Set)

The World As Will and Representation (2-Volume Set)

by Arthur Schopenhauer

Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For first time translates and locates all quotes, provides full index.

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

by Walter Arnold Kaufmann

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. ... (more)

The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

by Bryan Magee

This is a revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's widely praised study of Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive book on this great philosopher. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical discussion of the problems to which it gives rise and of its influence on a wide range of thinkers and artists. For this new edition Magee has added three new... (more)

The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. This new edition... (more)

Fichte: Foundations of Natural Right (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Fichte: Foundations of Natural Right (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

by Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Fichte's thought marks a crucial transitional stage between Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. Foundations of Natural Right, thought by many to be Fichte's most important work of political philosophy, applies his ideas to fundamental issues in political and legal philosophy, covering such topics as civic freedom, right, private property, contracts, family relations, and the foundations of modern political... (more)

Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

by Jurgen Habermans, William Rehg

"<A> fascinating synthesis of Continental and Anglo-American legal theory. . . full of interesting insights, acute criticisms, and striking passages." -- Richard A. Posner, The New Republic In Between Facts and Norms Jürgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of ... (more)

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

by Immanuel Kant, Mary Gregor

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. This edition presents the acclaimed translation of the text by Mary Gregor, together... (more)

Critique of Judgment

by Immanuel Kant

Kant's attempt to establish the principles behind the faculty of judgment remains one of the most important works on human reason. This third of the philosopher's three Critiques forms the very basis of modern aesthetics by establishing the almost universally accepted framework for debate of aesthetic issues.

Reason and Revolution

by Herbert Marcuse

"Dr. Marcuse's book deserves a warm welcome. It is the first coherent and sympathetic account in English for many years past of what a great and original thinker set out to do." -- The Times Literary Supplement It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. Such is the case with Herbert Marcuse's REASON... (more)

System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)

System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)

by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

"System of Transcendental Idealism" is probably Schelling's most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication in 1800 came seven years after Fichte's "Wissenschaftslehre" and seven years before Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". Translated into English for the first time in 1978, it is now being offered in paperback. Students of English literature... (more)