![]() | A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Buy used from: £5.85 read my dad's copy years ago. fine if you ignore everything after hume!
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![]() | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.68 wonderful book. so simple, so direct. every young person should read this
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![]() | Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £16.99 the single most important analytic philosophy text. critiques many pervasive illusions
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![]() | Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £8.75 please please read this instead of 'existentialism is a humanism'!!
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![]() | The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.48 great collection, contains 'zarathustra' and 'twilight of the idols'
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![]() | Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £4.99 probably the best attempt at this problem yet. and it's enjoyable to read too!
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![]() | Practical Ethics by Peter Singer
Buy new: £15.29 / Used from: £7.97 it might not turn you into an eco-terrorist but you might eat a few less steaks
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![]() | A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £1.49 ok so technically not philosophy. but every lover of knowledge should know about the universe!
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![]() | Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics): An Introduction (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Buy new: £11.39 / Used from: £9.36 stimulating book, stands awkwardly inbetween many different traditions
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![]() | Mind and World by J Mcdowell
Buy new: £14.95 / Used from: £14.95 highly lucid and perceptive diagnosis of the problems of modern epistemology, and potential solutions
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![]() | Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £10.05 very wide-ranging book, though you do often wish for more substance...
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![]() | The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.80 more philosophical companion to 'the outsider'
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![]() | Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £0.21 another lovely nietzsche book. one of his most important
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![]() | Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Buy used from: £14.86 if you only buy one book on hermeneutics this xmas, make it this one :)
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![]() | Writing and Difference (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics) by Jacques Derrida
Buy new: £9.34 / Used from: £6.07 on a variety of topics from phenomenology to structuralism, his prose is so thick with ideas it hurts
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![]() | Rorty and His Critics (Philosophers and their Critics) by Robert B. Brandom
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £22.85 provides the substance and (some) answers which his other books often lack
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![]() | Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £5.24 lovely biography which also covers the progression in his work. he had a good life :)
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![]() | The Rebel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.45 a bit more camus - his humanist manifesto, building an ethics of rebellion from human existence
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![]() | A Companion to Continental Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £18.00 an excellent guide to the origins and twists in the more interesting philosophical movement...
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![]() | The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Buy used from: £3.74 everyone should have one, for when someone mentions some random paradox or idea
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![]() | Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Vintage classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £4.12 now for 5 i'm working my way through at the moment (or will be in the near future)
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![]() | The Culture Industry (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics) by Theodor W Adorno
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £6.53 i always knew i was justified in disliking popular culture. here's a philosophical basis :)
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![]() | Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £15.29 everyone should have some Being in their life
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![]() | The Ticklish Subject: Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Wo Es War) by Slavoj Zizek
Buy used from: £46.14 the cartesian manifesto, except it's not...
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![]() | Empire by Michael Hardt
Buy new: £13.95 / Used from: £11.28 trying to see where their optimism originates is half the fun
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