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The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Gareth Stedman Jones (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto has become one of the world?s most influential political tracts since its original 1848 publication. Part of the Rethinking the Western Tradition series, this edition of the Manifesto features an extensive introduction by Jeffrey C. Isaac, and essays by Vladimir Tis ...Show more
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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 aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more
The Fastidious Assassins (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Albert Camus
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas, AC
A daring 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 tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, s ...Show more
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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 politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...Show more
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourse ...Show more
The Inner Life by Thomas à Kempis
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them.Now, Penguin brings you the ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the gr ...Show more
The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life. "Great Ideas": throug ...Show more
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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 the many translators of "1001 Nights". Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our ...Show more
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more