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Continental Philosophy Books
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Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,122 ratings — published 1927
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,928 ratings — published 1886
Phenomenology of Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,665 ratings — published 1807
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,409 ratings — published 1887
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,633 ratings — published 1871
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,808 ratings — published 1972
Difference and Repetition (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,883 ratings — published 1968
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,962 ratings — published 1976
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 178,845 ratings — published 1883
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,091 ratings — published 2001
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,286 ratings — published 1947
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,403 ratings — published 1975
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,096 ratings — published 1980
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,435,523 ratings — published 1942
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,060 ratings — published 1843
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,683 ratings — published 1961
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,481 ratings — published 1945
Basic Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,223 ratings — published 1964
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,999 ratings — published 1887
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,349 ratings — published 1943
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 47,392 ratings — published 1946
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 42,941 ratings — published 1781
Nietzsche and Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,574 ratings — published 1962
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 98,260 ratings — published 1942
The Will to Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,322 ratings — published 1901
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,802 ratings — published 1882
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,890 ratings — published 1981
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,660 ratings — published 1966
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,928 ratings — published 1967
Introduction to Metaphysics (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,398 ratings — published 1929
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,372 ratings — published 1849
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,229 ratings — published 1818
Truth and Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,621 ratings — published 1960
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,319 ratings — published 1957
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,241 ratings — published 1989
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,700 ratings — published 1971
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,603 ratings — published 1938
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,889 ratings — published 1942
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,815 ratings — published 1951
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,899 ratings — published 1949
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,593 ratings — published 1929
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,664 ratings — published 1964
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,569 ratings — published 1955
Matter and Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,751 ratings — published 1896
On the Way to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.08 — 753 ratings — published 1959
Specters of Marx (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,837 ratings — published 1993
The Logic of Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,041 ratings — published 1969
Letter on Humanism
by (shelved 5 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.86 — 783 ratings — published 1946
The Anti-Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.88 — 33,068 ratings — published 1888
Theory of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental-philosophy)
avg rating 3.94 — 840 ratings — published 1973
“Pragmatism, by its very name, poses above all as a 'pholosophy of action'; its more or less avowed assumption is that man only has needs of a practical order, material ones and, together with these, sentimental ones. It means, then, the doing away with intellectuality; but, if this is so, why go on wanting to evolve theories? That is rather hard to understand; and if pragmatism, like skepticism, which it only differs from with regard to action, wished to conform to its own standards, it would have to limit itself to a mere mental attitude, which it cannot even seek to justify logically without giving itself the lie; but there is no doubt that it is very difficult to keep strictly within such bounds.”
― East and West
― East and West
“The continental philosopher comes to a philosophical conversation looking to have a communal experience where both sides learn from each other. Their perspective is often that we may be on different paragraphs but we are all on the same page.
They’ll often speak in stories as an attempt to create a world where everyone listening works together to create agreed upon language/inside jokes/slang.
By contrast, the analytic philosopher often comes to a philosophical conversation looking to win an argument. They often have a set of patterns, labels and pre-packaged arguments. To them, clever double speak and long drawn out narratives are not profound. They’ll often label it halfway through as just a bunch of made up gibberish that leaves things even more confusing than before.
It is as if the analytic philosopher says to the continental philosopher ‘you are speaking gibberish’ and the continental philosopher responds with ‘exactly.”
― Lecture Notes
They’ll often speak in stories as an attempt to create a world where everyone listening works together to create agreed upon language/inside jokes/slang.
By contrast, the analytic philosopher often comes to a philosophical conversation looking to win an argument. They often have a set of patterns, labels and pre-packaged arguments. To them, clever double speak and long drawn out narratives are not profound. They’ll often label it halfway through as just a bunch of made up gibberish that leaves things even more confusing than before.
It is as if the analytic philosopher says to the continental philosopher ‘you are speaking gibberish’ and the continental philosopher responds with ‘exactly.”
― Lecture Notes
