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Existential Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom
Basic Books, 1980
Most Illuminating Psych Book I've Read
As a psychiatrist, I have yet to read a more illuminating book on how mental illnesses can develop, and how to help patients' to become free of them.
Existential Psychotherapy presents a theory of the existential forces that drive all human beings--knowledge of ...
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Vintage, 1997
mind magic
This is one of the rarest, most utterly original books there is, and indeed could ever be. It is written by someone whose soul is that of a magician and poet and whose art is so triumphant with sheer spirit that every sentence is radical and radicalizing. It is a ...
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Existentialism And Human Emotions (A Philosophical Library Book)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Citadel, 2000
The most readable philosophy work of Sartre
This work is readable and clear. In this it is possible to learn more from reading a few pages of it than from reading all of Sartre's major philosophical work 'Being and Nothingness'. The basic idea of Sartre's Existensialism is that we are born into the world without ...
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The Courage to Be
Paul Tillich
Yale University Press, 2000
Surprised me by how much it spoke to my situation
It seemed at the beginning that it would be too abstract. Too involved in a history of philosophy in its discussion of the Stoics. That Tillich was asserting too much, as if "ex cathedra". But even in the early chapters, I sensed something special and by the time I ...
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
Nothing... Something to get excited about
I'll admit, writing a book about nothing and making it exciting is probably a challenging thing to do. This is going to be a rather odd thing to bring up at the start of the review, but I have to ask did people read a different book than I did? Seriously, I read ...
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The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Albert Camus
Vintage, 1991
Definitely worth a try
Not everyone is inclined to navel lintgazing. Nor is everyone up for the level of effort necessary to gain any type of understanding of Camus' writings either. That doesn't mean the effort should not be made though! I avoided Camus for years, until a reference at ...
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Being And Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes
Washington Square Press, 1993
I liked being, I skipped nothingness.
This book is really a propaganda piece whose primary objective was to rouse French people to resist German occupiers. Published under enemy censorship, it reads between the lines as an appeal to French guilt about not facing up to their responsibilities. Sartre ...
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Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics)
Merleau-Ponty
Routledge, 2002
A masterpiece!
Merleau-Ponty's masterpiece is really an exquisite piece of writing. I know from an excellent source that there is a new translation coming soon. The French to English translation was done by a French professor, not a philosopher so some of M-P's subtle nuances are ...
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Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Leonard Koren
Stone Bridge Press, 1994
delightful read for anyone interested in aesthetics or design
a close friend of mine loaned me the book on saturday - i read it once on sunday, and again yesterday (monday)
the book is more powerful than i can describe in a review. 5-stars, no-brainer.. read this book!
the orientation is more ideological than demonstrative ...
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Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
G. W. F. Hegel
Oxford University Press, USA, 1979
Kant go all the way
What is the Phen. of Spirit about? Essentially it is Hegel's answer to Kant and his strong disagreement with Kant's unwillingness or inability to close the gap between the subject and the so called "thing in itself" (the "truth" of any external object). Kant developed ...
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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Richard Tarnas
Plume, 2007
never bought astrology until now
wow whee. as someone raised by scientists whose creation myth has always been the big bang i was spellbound by the first section of the book on cosmological thinking. i didnt see the astrology coming. what can i say but woah gosh golly gee whiz
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Introduction to Metaphysics (Yale Nota Bene)
Martin Heidegger
Yale University Press, 2000
Invitation to Being
"Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?" (1) Martin Heidegger, the most poetic and controversial philosopher of the 20th century, cuts straight to the heart of the matter with this very question. The heart of metaphysics is its very ability to question the ...
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Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean Paul Sartre
Yale University Press, 2007
Excellent
Although this is not exactly an introduction to the theory of Existentialism, it is certainly a much more accessible account of it than Sartre's "Being and Nothingness." Sartre addresses the numerous detractors of Existentialism who posit that the theory is essentially ...
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian)
Plume, 1975
The Best Introduction to Existentialism
This anthology of Existentialist texts is the best introduction to Existentialism currently available in English. Walter Kaufmann (best known to philosophy readers as the twentieth century's most important translator of Nietzsche) presents a selection of key texts from ...
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Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library Classics)
Modern Library, 2004
An existential adventure.
Perhaps more than any other philosophical movement I studied in college, existentialism forever changed the way I view life. Not surprisingly, Editor Gordon Marino begins this superb anthology with a caveat emptor. "The existentialists are not for people looking to ...
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