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The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche · 1909 · 18p · ≈ 36m · Challenging "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche" is an indispensable philosophical collection encompassing the full scope of one of history’s most groundbreaking and provocative thinkers, whose insights dramatically reshaped modern intellectual thought. Nietzsche, known for his penetrating critique of traditional morality, religion, and philosophical ideals, challenged foundational assumptions about… Shares: Philosophie, Philosophy

Herders sämmtliche Werke Johann Gottfried Herder · 1877 · ★ 5.0 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares: Aesthetics, Philosophy

El sí de las ninas Leandro Fernández de Moratín · 1806 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Estrenada en enero de 1806 en Madrid, fue la obra de mayor aceptación de su tiempo en España y se convirtió en el mayor acontecimiento teatral de todo el siglo. Edición de Juan A. Ríos Carratalá. Shares: Spanish literature, Literary Criticism

Routledge Revivals A. J. Arberry · 2016 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. The introduction provides a brief analysis of earlier translations of the tales and explains their value as indicators of the society in which they were written.This work will be of interest to those… Shares: Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Autobiography Effect Dennis Schep · 2019 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Since the advent of post-structuralism, various authors have problematized the modern conception of autobiography by questioning the status of authorship and interrogating the relation between language and reality. Yet even after making autobiography into a theoretical problem, many of these authors ended up writing about themselves. This paradox stands at the center of this wide-ranging study of… Shares: Philosophie, Literary Criticism, Philosophy

Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter Erich Auerbach · 1958 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue Francis Hutcheson · 1725 · ★ 5.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Demanding "The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to… Shares: Aesthetics, Philosophy

Biographia literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known… Shares: Aesthetics, History and criticism, Philosophy

Die Geburt der Tragödie Friedrich Nietzsche · 1872 · ★ 3.9 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the… Shares: Aesthetics, History and criticism, Philosophy

The Flirt Booth Tarkington · 1913 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Valentine Corliss walked up Corliss Street the hottest afternoon of that hot August, a year ago, wearing a suit of white serge which attracted a little attention from those observers who were able to observe anything except the heat. The coat was shaped delicately; it outlined the wearer, and, fitting him as women's clothes fit women, suggested an effeminacy not an attribute of the tall Corliss.… Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism

A Q zheng zhuan Lu Xun · 1926 · ★ 4.6 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Chinese and Thai on opposite pages. Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

The Arthurian legend in the literatures of the Spanish Peninsula William J. Entwistle · 1925 · ★ 5.0 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares: Spanish literature, History and criticism

On Humour Simon Critchley · 2002 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny… Shares: Aesthetics, History and criticism, Philosophy

Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding Francis Beaumont · 1634 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism

We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories Amy E. Robillard · 2018 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate We Find Ourselves in Other People’s Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story is a collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies, in order to examine the rhetorical effects of narrative collapse on the stories we tell about ourselves and… Shares: Philosophie, Literary Criticism, Philosophy

Мы Евгений Иванович Замятин · 1924 · ★ 4.1 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Wikipedia We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given… Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism

La philosophie dans le boudoir, ou, Les instituteurs libertins Marquis de Sade · 1795 · ★ 3.4 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Sade a fait de sa sexualité une éthique, qu'il a manifestée dans une oeuvre littéraire. C'est par ce mouvement réfléchi de sa vie d'adulte qu'il a conquis sa véritable originalité. L'ouvrage se présente comme une série de dialogues retraçant l'éducation érotique et sexuelle d'une jeune fille de 15 ans. Une libertine, Mme de Saint-Ange, veut initier Eugénie «dans les plus secrets mystères de… Shares: Literature - Classics, Philosophy

Autobiography as philosophy Thomas Mathien · 2006 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Most philosophical writing is impersonal and argumentative, but many important philosophers have nevertheless written accounts of their own lives. Filling a gap in the market for a text focusing on autobiography as philosophy, this collection discusses several such autobiographies in the light of their authors' broader work, and considers whether there are any philosophical tasks for which life… Shares: Philosophie, History and criticism, Philosophy

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