The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)

'One needs to be more desirable to mankind in strength, in loftiness of soul—in contempt’In those devastating works, Nietzsche deals a sustained and sometimes vitriolic assault at the morality and the ideals of his time, specifically these of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a ‘grand assertion of conflict’ on cause, psychology and theology that mixes hugely charged own assaults on his contemporaries with a lightning travel of his personal philosophy.

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

Right here finally is a coherent, unintimidating creation to the hard and interesting panorama of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are huge questions in the market, yet doesn't know the way toapproach them," imagine presents a valid framework for exploring the main simple issues of philosophy, and for knowing how significant philosophers have tackled the questions that experience pressed themselves so much forcefully on human cognizance.

Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression

In Moody Minds Distempered thinker Jennifer Radden assembles numerous many years of her learn on depression and melancholy. The chapters are ordered into 3 different types: these approximately highbrow and clinical heritage of depression and melancholy; those who emphasize points of the ethical, mental and scientific positive factors of those options; and at last, those who discover the unhappy and fearful temper states lengthy linked to depression and depressive subjectivity.

Thought and Reality (Lines of Thought)

During this brief, lucid, wealthy publication Michael Dummett units out his perspectives approximately a number of the private questions in philosophy. the elemental query of metaphysics is: what does fact include? to respond to this, Dummett holds, it can be crucial to claim what types of truth receive, and what constitutes their keeping solid.