Results for 'albert camus'

1. Frantz , Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961) was an author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.

1. Simone Weil

The Need for Roots

A masterpiece … Today it retains an eerie prescience. Looking to the past, Weil spoke to future generations who would feel, as she did, that history is a trap we only half understand … luminous

1. E. M. Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born

E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers, whose thinking was influenced by pessimism and existentialism. A Romanian, he lived most of his life in Paris. His major works in Romanian include On the Heights of Despair and, in French, A Short History of Decay and Drawn and Quartered. He refused nearly every literary prize he was awarded.

1. Alain de , Botton

The Architecture of Happiness

Alain de Botton is the author of Essays in Love, The Romantic Movement, Kiss and Tell, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel, Status Anxiety, The Architecture of Happiness, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, A Week at the Airport, Religion for Atheists, The News: A User's Manual, and The Course of Love among many others. Alain is a bestselling author in 30 countries. He lives in London, where he runs The School of Life and Living Architecture.

Camus, philosophe pour classes terminales

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Camus, philosophe pour classes terminales est un essai sous forme pamphlétaire, de l'écrivain Jean-Jacques Brochier publié en 1970 et réédité en 1979. Jean-Jacques Brochier se présente en digne successeur des existentialistes dans la querelle qui les a opposés à Albert Camus lors de la parution de L'Homme révolté. Il a d'ailleurs écrit un autre essai intitulé Pour Sartre: le jour où Sartre refusa le Nobel où il montre toute son admiration pour le philosophe. Ce qui le trouble, c'est cette espèce de consensus autour de l'œuvre de Camus, c'est que, comme la plupart des grands écrivains juste après leur mort, il n'ait connu aucune période de purgatoire.

L'Inconnue de la Seine

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. L'Inconnue de la Seine (French for "the unknown woman of the Seine") was an unidentified young woman whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900. Her visage was the inspiration for numerous literary works. According to an often-repeated story, the body of the young woman was pulled out of the Seine River at the Quai du Louvre in Paris around the late 1880s.The body showed no signs of violence, and suicide was suspected.A pathologist at the Paris morgue was so taken by her beauty that he had a moulder make a plaster cast death mask of her face. According to other accounts, the mask was taken from the daughter of a mask manufacturer in Germany.