Produkty z tagiem 'GREAT IDEAS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

The Symposium [Oprawa Miękka]
Plato

Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly aff

€9,67

Fear and Trembling [Oprawa Miękka]
Soren Kierkegaard

The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understandi

€9,91

On Suicide [Oprawa Miękka]
David Hume

One of the most important thinkers ever to write in English, the Empiricist David Hume liberated philosophy from the superstitious constraints of religion; here, he argues that all are free to choose

€8,42

Eichmann and the Holocaust [Oprawa Miękka]
Hannah Arendt

Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insi

€9,91

Of Human Freedom [Oprawa Miękka]
Epictetus

In this personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life, the second-century philosopher Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness and fear, f

€9,42

The Fastidious Assassins [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

Adaring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing t

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The Sickness Unto Death [Oprawa Miękka]
Soren Kierkegaard

Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of t

€8,42

A Confession [Oprawa Miękka]
Leo Tolstoy

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion

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Man Alone with Himself [Oprawa Miękka]
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom

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The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise [Oprawa Miękka]
Jorge Luis Borges

In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and th

€9,67

Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and co

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Days of Reading [Oprawa Miękka]
Marcel Proust

In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing your

€8,42

On Art and Life [Oprawa Miękka]
John Ruskin

John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art. of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and

€7,18

A Room of One"s Own [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

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,

€9,51

Suffragette Manifestos [Oprawa Miękka]

'We women are roused. Now that we are roused, we will never be quiet again' Bringing together the voices of women who fought for equal rights and representation - from aristocrats and actresses to

€8,42

Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible [Oprawa Miękka]
John Berger

We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and societ

€8,42

Nationalism [Oprawa Miękka]
Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, b

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Why I am So Wise [Oprawa Miękka]
Friedrich Nietzsche

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,

€9,51

The Freedom to Be Free [Oprawa Miękka]
Hannah Arendt

People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without

€10,92

The Decay of Lying [Oprawa Miękka]
Oscar Wilde

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on ae

€8,42

Vindication of the Rights of Woman [Oprawa Miękka]
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of m

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The Evils of Revolution [Oprawa Miękka]

Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke’s prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern con

€4,96

Christians and the Fall of Rome [Oprawa Miękka]
Edward Gibbon

Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication, and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of

€7,55

The Tao of Nature [Oprawa Miękka]
Chuang Tzu

Chuang Tzu examines the nature of existence in these dialogues and essays, from the battle to grasp the purpose of life to the search for knowledge. A collection of some of the most absorbing and cha

€9,51

On Power [Oprawa Miękka]
William Shakespeare

These are Shakespeare's greatest writings on power in all its forms - in love, in war, in politics and in the family. From Macbeth's vaulting ambition to Richard II's fragile grip on authority, from

€6,14

The Spectacle of the Scaffold [Oprawa Miękka]
Michel Foucault

Foucault's writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern era's most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to b

€5,55

The Significance of the Frontier in American Histo.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation's expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism

€7,55

The Gettysburg Address [Oprawa Miękka]
Abraham Lincoln

The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a

€7,55

The Lamp of Memory [Oprawa Miękka]
John Ruskin

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is

€9,51

The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion [Oprawa Miękka]
Arthur Schopenhauer

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges f

€10,36