The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays47 reviews Albert Camus Vintage, 1991 Definitely worth a try + Years ago + Not an easy but a worthwhile read + amazing             Scepticism And Animal Faith: Introduction To A System Of Philosophy3 reviews George Santayana Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005 Santayana's philosophical masterpiece + Dynamite + yes but This book is the most distinguished work of philosophy to emerge out of the critical realist tradition. Santayana defends the duality between ideas in the mind and the things these ideas represent in the natural world. Using this epistemological dualism, Santayana explains why all forms of ...             Atlas Shrugged1530 reviews Ayn Rand Plume, 1999 Celebration of the individual + The philosophy makes the book work. + Amazing book + South Park Inspired Me to Read Atlas Shrugged!             Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings1 review René Descartes Cambridge University Press, 1988 Descartes' Basic Writings This first volume in a two-volume set contains: (1) Rules for the Direction of our Native Intelligence, (2) Discourse on the Method, (3) Optics, (4) Meditations on First Philosophy (together with Objections and Replies), (5) Principles of Philosophy, (6) Comments on a Certain Broadsheet, and (7) ...             The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition (Phoenix Book)2 reviews William James University Of Chicago Press, 1978 James is an addicting and blisteringly real thinker! + The Most Complete James Work I've Seen This is an absolute value! Most of James's published writings including the hard to find "Pluralistic Universe" and "Essays in Radical Empiricism" are here. As well, we get the compolete "Pragmatism", "The Meaning of Truth" and excerpts from "Varieties" and "Psychology". Before reading this ...             Nightmares of Eminent Persons: And Other Stories1 review Bertrand Russell Spokesman Books, 2000 fascinating nightmares I read this book many years ago when it was first published in paperback. I lost access to that copy and I am pleased that Nightmares has been reprinted. This is one of the most fascinating books that I have ever read. It is both thought-provoking and highly entertaining. The ...             The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)19 reviews Adam Smith Bantam Classics, 2003 Surprisingly readable + Making Wealth, Making Poverty: A Smithian Prometheus + Awesome read + The all time classic - worth re-reading in a changing economy             The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)5 reviews Albert Camus Everyman's Library, 2004 Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death + Haven't even read it, but + Moving, Thought-Provoking, and Genius + Excellent + The Ultimate Albert Camus Anthology             Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics)58 reviews Jean-Pau Sartre Routledge, 2003 I liked being, I skipped nothingness. + Sartre's magnum opus + Being and Nothingness + Excellent service.             Selected Works (Everyman's Library)4 reviews Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Everyman's Library, 2000 A useful introduction + Beautiful book + great volume I picked up a copy of this book at the local library when I recently become interested in Goethe, and as an introduction to his life and work I found it really useful. The book's Introduction is written by Goethe's biographer (who has currently published two volumes of a planned three volume ...             From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The ...21 reviews Charles Darwin W. W. Norton, 2005 One of the books that changed my life. + Great collection, giant volume. + Fabolous + great book             Emile, or On Education5 reviews John, Jacques Rousseau NuVision Publications, 2007 The Unread Masterpiece + Post-Modern Child Rearing + great book, great translation + Nature, Education and Democracy             1984 (Signet Classics)1379 reviews George Orwell New American Library, 1961 Great Purchase. + a classic, but too full of torture and gore! I hated it!!!! + The classic dystopia novel + I love this book!             The Essential Kierkegaard5 reviews Soren Kierkegaard Princeton University Press, 2000 The Master of Irony + May the laughter by on your side + haven't read this particular edition of Kierkegard + Excellent Anthology             The Portable Thoreau (Penguin Classics)7 reviews Henry David Thoreau Penguin Books, 1964 Must Read + Nice Size + great value + 'My life has been the poem I would have writ'             The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud (Psychopathology of Everyday Life, the Interpretation of Dreams, and ...7 reviews Sigmund Freud Modern Library, 1995 Basic Writings of Freud by Brill + Book lives upto it's notariaty + A Good Introduction and Reference + Sigmund and soul. A myth to dream by.... + Review of Freud by an electrical engineer             The Prince283 reviews Niccolo Machiavelli Dante University of America Press, 2003 `Do the ends justify the means?' + The Recipe of the American Corporate State + An easy read that is full of vital lessons. + the prince + Classic that's still relevant because of what's happening today             Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid239 reviews Douglas R. Hofstadter Basic Books, 1999 Magnum Opus on Intelligence + An Incredible Intellectual Romp + Literate, Facinating, Readable + My favourite book - ever!             Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend18 reviews Thomas Mann Vintage, 1999 Artist Meets Scientist + Magnificent + Useful information....or not. + A demanding and crucially important read + Essential Reading for German Literary History             Leviathan Thomas, Hobbs Wilder Publications, 2007 Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war-situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes ("the war of all against all")-could only be averted by strong central government. He thus denied any right of rebellion toward the social contract, which ...