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Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,700 ratings — published 180
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.37 — 883,076 ratings — published 1946
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.07 — 177,157 ratings — published 1883
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.29 — 182,964 ratings — published -350
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,662 ratings — published -400
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.08 — 880,346 ratings — published 1922
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.84 — 384,080 ratings — published 1532
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.32 — 56,918 ratings — published 64
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,598 ratings — published -350
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,108 ratings — published -475
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,585,672 ratings — published 1988
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.78 — 245,911 ratings — published 1974
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,666 ratings — published 1886
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,813 ratings — published 49
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,549 ratings — published 1942
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.76 — 302,360 ratings — published 1759
Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,385 ratings — published 1677
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.94 — 573,831 ratings — published -500
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.97 — 283,129 ratings — published 1991
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,411,097 ratings — published 1942
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.96 — 42,617 ratings — published 1781
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,857 ratings — published 125
At the Existentialist Café (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,327 ratings — published 2016
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.37 — 52,409 ratings — published 2016
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.23 — 329,908 ratings — published 1923
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,175 ratings — published 1941
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,584 ratings — published -380
A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.13 — 41,602 ratings — published 1945
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,164 ratings — published 1848
The Tao of Pooh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.01 — 130,816 ratings — published 1982
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,662 ratings — published 1979
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,472 ratings — published 1748
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,083 ratings — published 1926
Plato: Complete Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,056 ratings — published -347
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.15 — 100,298 ratings — published 2014
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,429 ratings — published 2018
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,312 ratings — published 2008
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.11 — 546,081 ratings — published 1984
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.17 — 95,419 ratings — published 1942
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,348 ratings — published 1843
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,348 ratings — published 1999
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,811 ratings — published 1953
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,926 ratings — published 1927
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.55 — 83,432 ratings — published 1516
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.15 — 452,870 ratings — published 1997
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,649 ratings — published -335
Ego Is the Enemy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.13 — 88,727 ratings — published 2016
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,645 ratings — published 1843
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosopy)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,415,666 ratings — published 2016
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as philosopy)
avg rating 4.37 — 459,154 ratings — published 1952
“It would seem that the author’s name, unlike other proper names, does not pass from the interior of a discourse to the real and exterior individual who produced it; instead, the name seems always to be present, marking off the edges of the text, revealing, or at least characterizing, its mode of being. The author’s name manifests the appearance of a certain discursive set and indicates the status of this discourse within a society and a culture. It has no legal status, nor is it located in the fiction of the work; rather, it is located in the break that founds a certain discursive construct and its very particular mode of being. As a result, we could say that in a civilization like our own there are a certain number of discourses that are endowed with the “author-function”, while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer_ it does not have an author; a contract may well have a guarantor_ it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer_ but not an author. The author-function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society.”
― What is an Author?
― What is an Author?
“The greatest distraction to a productive life is competition.”
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