In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of...

Friedrich Nietzsche ist einer der meistgelesenen und einflussreichsten Philosophen. Ludger Lütkehaus stellt uns den großen Denker und seinen philosophischen Kosmos in diesem Lesebuch vor: Gedanken zur Tragödie, Historie, Wahrheit, dem Willen zur Macht wie auch die Weltanschauung des Nihilismus. Mit den kurzen, zentralen Textpassagen werden uns Nietzsches Werk und seine Wirkung zugänglich.

Perevod s frantsuzskogo. Seriia: Biblioteka Rossiiskogo Evreiskogo Kongressa. Kniga-dialog.

1884. Partial Contents: Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind; Belief in the Immortality of the Soul; Situations of excited passion in humanity which teach men to wish or apprehend Supernatural Apparitions; Story of Somnambulism; Witches and the Bible; Creed of Zoroaster; Law of the Romans against Witchcraft; Roman customs survive the fall of their Religion;...

Includes the plays Mukhi [The Flies], Pochtitel'naia potaskushka [The Respectable Prostitute] and Za zakrytymi dveriami [No Exit].

An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines and fragmented spaces. Messiness is framed by a blurring of the world orderings inherited from modernity. Against the backdrop of rapid...

The works included in this collection - from philosophical 'Nausea' to autobiographical 'Words' - to one degree or another unite the main themes of Sartre's work, to which the great existentialist writer again and again turned his whole life: freedom, creativity, self-awareness in the world, death. Moreover, these themes themselves in Sartre are inextricably linked. After all, freedom in his...

What is Christianity? A religion of goodness and mercy - or a ‘religion of losers’ that ties the hands of a strong personality and entangles believers with a guilt complex? How should one deal with one’s ‘inner demons’? Should we suppress them, driving them deeper and deeper - or, on the contrary, learn to accept them - is this the best way to manage them? And, finally, what is more important -...

Die Frankfurter Schule steht für ein Spektrum von Intellektuellen, die langfristig oder zeitweilig dem 1924 in Frankfurt am Main gegründeten Institut für Sozialforschung und dessen Projekt einer kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft verbunden waren. Rolf Wiggershaus zeichnet die Geschichte der Frankfurter Schule von ihren Anfängen bis zum heutigen Tage nach. Aus einer überwältigenden Fülle von...

A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are...