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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

by Edmund Burke

An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical EnquiryPhilosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's...

tags: 18th century, theory, writing, politics, gothic, philosophy, essays, classics, nonfiction, literature, art, criticism, literary criticism

Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

by Jacques Ellul

"A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, [Ellul]...

tags: theory, politics, philosophy, society, sociology, culture, nonfiction, cultural, political science, history, psychology

Repetition

by Soren Kierkegaard

Un texte du célèbre philosophe danois du XIXe siècle, dans lequel il songe à reprendre ses relations avec Régine Olsen, son ancienne fiancée.

tags: theory, danish, philosophy, european literature, nonfiction, psychology

Either/Or, Part I

Either/Or, Part I

by Soren Kierkegaard

Rear cover notes: "Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary...

tags: theology, theory, danish, unfinished, philosophy, european literature, christianity, classics, religion, nonfiction, scandinavian literature

Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs

Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs

by Soren Kierkegaard

"The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love." So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's RepetitionRepetition. Life itself,...

tags: danish, theory, philosophy, european literature, christianity, religion, nonfiction

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