Each elegant volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker’s art. \n\nThe Myth of Sisyphus\n\nThe book that transformed philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning. \n\nOn the Shortness of Life\n\nPowerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason. \n\nMeditations\n\nA series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behaviour. \n\nMan Alone with Himself\n\nSubjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual’s ‘will to power’. \n\nAn Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?'\n\nKant investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened. \n\nFear and Trembling\n\nKierkegaard argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal “leap of faith.” \n\nThe Sickness Unto Death\n\nThis book explores the concept of ‘despair’ as a symptom of the human condition and describes man’s struggle to fill the spiritual void. \n\nOf Human Freedom\n\nA personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life. \n\nHow to be a Stoic\n\nThree great Stoic philosophers – Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius – offer ancient wisdom on how to face life’s adversities and live well in the world. \n\nBeing Happy\n\nEpicurus argues that pleasure - not sensual hedonism, but the absence of pain or fear - is the highest goal of life. \n\nWhat is Existentialism\n\nExplores the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being. \n\nThe Symposium\n\nA deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love.
James Maclaine (Author) James Maclaine has written books about meerkats, general knowledge and manners, come up with countless drawing, doodling and colouring ideas, and devised puzzles and things to do for a range of activity books. His Junior Illustrated Thesaurus is the book that he wishes he'd had as a child. Lucy Bowman (Author) Lucy Bowman grew up in a village in Cheshire, where she spent her time having adventures outdoors or reading about them in books. She completed a degree in American Studies and joined Usborne to write books on all kinds of topics, from Antarctica to space to games and puzzles.
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