K rated On the Road: 5 stars
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …
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K rated The Communist Manifesto: 4 stars
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (Penguin classics)
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 …
K rated In Defense of Lost Causes: 4 stars
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors …
K rated The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 5 stars
K rated No Exit, and Three Other Plays: 5 stars
K rated Why I am not a Christian: 4 stars
Why I am not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian is an essay by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. Originally a talk given …
K rated The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays: 5 stars
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus (Vintage V-75)
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works …
K rated Fear and Trembling: 5 stars
Zen keys by Thích Nhất Hạnh (Image books)
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit (French: Huis clos, pronounced [ɥi klo]) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The original title …
K rated On Belief (Thinking in Action): 5 stars
K rated The concept of time: 4 stars
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic …
K rated Language in Thought and Action: 5 stars
K rated The Problems of Philosophy: 5 stars
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which …