Västerländsk filosofi: från ca 1900

Den här boken handlar om meningen med livet - varför vi längtar efter den, hur vi kan söka den och varför det är så viktigt att lära sig leva innerligt. Guide är filosofen Søren Kierkegaard vars tankar la grunden för existentialismen. Prästen Ted ...

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Är livet värt att leva? Detta är enligt Albert Camus filosofins grundläggande fråga. Allt annat är tidsfördriv. Myten om Sisyfos tolkar Albert Camus som en revoltens filosofi, en lidelsefull protest mot det fundamentalt förtvivlade i människans li...

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Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to...

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"Varseblivningens fenomenologi" är ett av den fenomenologiska traditionens centrala verk. Maurice Merleau-Ponty utarbetar här ett övergripande perspektiv på det mänskliga erfarenhetslivet. Han tar sin utgångspunkt i det till synes allra enklaste, ...

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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aro...

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Existentialismen är en humanism är en populär startpunkt för att närma sig och diskutera existentialistiskt tänkande. Här återfinns resonemangen om friheten, valet och ångesten som människans existentiella livsvillkor, vilket sammanfattas i Jean-P...

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'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions o...

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enri...

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'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament' Jane O'Gr...

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Ludwig Wittgensteins Tractatus hör till de mest gåtfulla verk som skrivits. Den har lockat människor både utanför och innanför filosofin att försöka tolka de ibland ganska dunkla raderna i denna klassiker. Trots att boken skrevs för snart hundra å...

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This book presents a full decade of Sartre's work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first vol...

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Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is transl...

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A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. 'This is by far the best book I've read this year.' Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard Un...

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'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and...

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LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Mesmerising' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Monumental' The Telegraph Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. ...

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Existentialism: An Introduction¿has established itself as the most comprehensive and accessible book on the subject available. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Kevin Aho draws on a wide range of existentialist thinkers from both ...

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In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subject...

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"Andens fenomenologi" av Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel från 1807 är en milstolpe i det filosofiska tänkandets historia. Dess skildring av det mänskliga medvetandets dialektiska utveckling, genom vetenskap, politik och religion, etablerar en ny for...

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In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living? 'What I touch, what resists me - that is what I understand' As Camus argues, if there is no God to ...

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One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the conc...

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Box innehållande tre skrifter av Hans Ruin, professor i filosofi vid Södertörns högskola: "Kommentarer till Hegels Andens fenomenologi" (2024); "Kommentar till Heideggers Vara och tid" (2023) och "Reduktion och reflektion: En inledning till Husser...

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I den franske 1900-talsfilosofen Maurice Merleau-Pontys efterlämnade föreläsningsmanuskript återfinns hans studier av språk och litteratur. Med frågor om konstens förhållande till verkligheten närläser han Proust, Stendhal och Valéry, och granskar...

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Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, comm...

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'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to rela...

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"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole...

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In Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard's infamous and controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the ...

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The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the leth...

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