In Nietzsche’s classic philosophical novel, the prophet Zarathustra has come down from the mountains to offer his wisdom and philosophy to the world. Impress all your friends by actually knowing the context for some of Nietzsche’s most...
Philosophy, Modern
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Author:Nietzsche, FrederichSummary: -
Author:Taylor, CharlesSummary:In Malaise of Modernity, Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism. To Taylor, self-fulfillment, although...
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Author:Robertson, RitchieSummary:The Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech, and the press, of rationality and evidence based argument. Yet why, over three hundred years later is the...
- Author:Strathern, PaulSummary:
During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism--at the opportune moment when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the...
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Author:Jarosinski, EricSummary:Nein. A Manifesto is the brainchild of Eric Jarosinski, the self-described “failed intellectual” behind @NeinQuarterly, a “Compendium of Utopian Negation” that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential abyss of...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Strathern, PaulSummary:
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live and how we choose to live. His...
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Author:Neal, AubreySummary:Enlightenment philosophers are often credited with formulating challenging theories about humankind and society, and in our postmodern age, we still live with some of the very same compelling, contentious, and often unresolved questions...
- Author:VoltaireSummary:
Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss. In the course of his travels in Europe and...
- Author:Scruton, RogerSummary:
