Existentialism And Human Emotions (A Philosophical Library Book)13 reviews Jean-Paul Sartre Citadel, 2000 The most readable philosophy work of Sartre + Great book + A brilliant work by a brilliant author! + A Good Introduction + Most Accessible of Sartre's Philosophy             Being And Nothingness58 reviews Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes Washington Square Press, 1993 I liked being, I skipped nothingness. + Sartre's magnum opus + Being and Nothingness + Excellent service.             Critique of Pure Reason3 reviews Immanuel Kant Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 Standard translation of landmark text + Useful & reliable edition + A foundation stone for modern philosophy Norman Kemp Smith's translation seems to be one of the standard English translations of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Is it the best? I don't speak German, but it's certainly serviceable. This is a daunting work. It's also a necessary work, inasmuch as any understand of contemporary thought ...             Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics)4 reviews Martin Heidegger Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001 The Thing + Remarkable One of the clearer expositions of Heidegger's later thought is Das Ding, anthologized in this volume. You are free to read the other selections ("the essence of language is the language of essence" ad nauseum) but das Ding begins with a phenomenological description of a Krug (a cup) that became ...             An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding15 reviews David Hume Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1993 As Exciting and Thought-Provoking as Philosophy Gets + Not An Ending, But A Beginning + Descartes' Ultimate Error + Hume at his best + A comment on one part of Hume 's classic             Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas)30 reviews Soren Kierkegaard Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 Fear and Trembling + I'll try to simplify, with Kierkegaard, it might be possible. + FAITH IS A MEME + Fear and Trembling + Provocative but flawed             Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)75 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Classics, 2003 What was on Zarathustra's mind on those mountains? + FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: "...PUTTING HIS FINGER ON BAD ARTS OF INTERPRETATION" (start here with Nietzsche) + Way Beyond Good & Evil Beyond Good and Evil clarifies much of what is left in the air in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and hinted at in the Gay Science. It helps to be familiar with TSZ, or at least the Gay Science coming into reading this text, given the subtlety of the allusions to his former writings and concepts, and the ...             The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs25 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Vintage, 1974 THE FAVOURITE: JOY THANKS TO LUCIDITY + Heraclitus comes to the fore-- Im Fluss:Panta rei + Brilliant + RE: "God is dead" + An Under-rated piece of work?             The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)25 reviews Friedrich Nietzsche Penguin Classics, 1990 Mental Roller Coaster + Scathing Polemic Against Religious Self-Illusionism + A good place to start + amazing...             The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)10 reviews Aristotle Penguin Classics, 2004 Virtue Ethics Classic + A Philosophy of Common Sense + A Helpful Edition of a Classic Work + The Nicomachean Ethics - - Aristotol + Early work of social science             Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary ...12 reviews Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, ... Wiley-Blackwell, 1991 A fine book + A sea change in philosophy + The key text. + Nice Version of a Contemporary Classic             Five Dialogues10 reviews Plato Hackett Publishing Company, 2002 The Core of Greek Philosophy Contained 156 Pages + Excellent Choice + A Great Read for anyone who desires a great lesson in Logic! + The trial, imprisonment, and death of Socrates             Plato Complete Works47 reviews Plato Hackett Publishing Company, 1997 Great Collection + Nice for the Price + a must-have I have not yet finished this book, but so far it appears to be a great collection for those interested in philosophy. The topics it covers are varying and very different from other books I have read. An example of this is that one of the "books" is a discussion of names and their relation to the ...             Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Cli (Penguin ...5 reviews Soren Kierkegaard Penguin Classics, 1989 Accepting Despair + Sickness unto Death + Or, one could write diary of a suffering theologian,perhaps? + Profound insight into the nature of sin + Woody Allen Gave the Best Review Ever of This Book...             The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation (2 Volume Set; Bollingen Series, Vol. LXXI, ...5 reviews Aristotle Princeton University Press, 1995 This is THE standard English Translation + Worth every penny + The Entire Aristotelian Corpus Presented in a Fine English Translation + An invaluable collection from the Greatest Scholar known             The Symposium (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Plato Penguin Classics, 2003 The Conversation + Fascinating ancient treatise on the nature of Love + It's all in love + Ups and downs             Being and Time51 reviews Martin Heidegger HarperOne, 1962 Some Thoughts on Approaching Being and Time + The World Isn't a Dead Construct + At the heart of contemporary continental philosophy + To learn Heidegger, don't start with Heidegger             Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)39 reviews Ludwig Wittgenstein Routledge, 2001 'The world is all that is the case' + Not for the average reader but thorough, if not at times tedious, in acomplishing its task... + ow, my brain...awesome. + Worth a PHD for the writer.             The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences12 reviews Michel Foucault Vintage, 1994 Difficult but worth it + read it + Obtuse but Sharp This book is one of the most important philosophy texts of the 20th century, if for no other reason than as an eye-opener. The text is a difficult read (although nowhere near as opaque as Derrida). The section on how our culture and, hence, our world-view has been "set" by accepted taxonomies is ...             Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison38 reviews Michel Foucault Vintage, 1995 Excellent and thought-provoking. + Knowledge, power, and domination Other reviews have done a nice job of explaining the textual benefits of the book, so let me explain its practical benefit. I'll keep this short and sweet. This is an excellent text to trot out during a sociology or other social science class when you want to egomanically dominate the conversation ...