Why should not the philosophers rule
Let us then begin by dismissing all the facts, because they do not touch the question.Without going as far as Rousseau in this famous…
Works
Confession of a Child of the Century – Musset
Confession of a Child of the Century is the only novel written by Alfred de Musset, a french romantic. This novel tells the tumultuous story of Musset and Sand, who had a stormy passion and devastating. Sand later deliver his own version…
La Boetie: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude is a work by Etienne de La Boétie, whose influence on political philosophy is very large. His philosophical radicalism, to…
Sartre: Dirty Hands Summary
Sartre and the theater Sartre considers himself an intellectual, ie as someone “who meddles with what does not concern him.” As such, the intellectual…
Plato: Phaedo Summary
The Phaedo, a synthesis of the Socratic thought The Phaedo, a Plato’s dialogue, has two advantages for readers: firstly, it is one of the…
Sartre: Existentialism is a humanism (Summary)
The lecture The Existentialism is a humanism of Sartre is one of the best-selling French philosophy book. Pronounced at the Sorbonne (well known university…
Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality (Summary)
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean Jacques Rousseau : The story of the mankind Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality…
Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus (Summary)
Epicurus, Greek philosopher, left us only three letters: the first, Letter to Herodotus, presents his metaphysics, the second is the letter to Pythocles, explains…
Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Analysis)
Milan Kundera is a leading contemporary writers. Author whose life was tormented by communism, Kundera left Czechoslovakia to seek refuge in France in the…
Philosophical Literature
Literature and philosophy Literature and philosophy go hand in hand and can form a continuum: some authors publishing trials (Balzac), as well as some…
Spinoza: Ethics Summary
Ethics by Spinoza : A moral, ontological and metaphysical work Ethics is an ambitious work and multifaceted. Ambitious in its subject matter as…
Kafka: The Trial (Analysis)
The Trial by Franz Kafka can be described as existentialist novel, because even if Sartre and Camus would not have written The Trial, most…
Proust: In Search of Lost Time – Summary
Summarize Proust’s philosophy is a challenge, as his references are extensive, his expression complex and his thought subtle.In Search of Lost Time is a source of philosophical…
Sartre: Being and Nothingness (Analysis)
Being and Nothingness is the major work by Jean-Paul Sartre and can be considered as the most complete work of existentialist philosophy. Published in…
Rousseau: Emile (Summary)
Emile or On Education, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, exposes the philosophy of education of the Genevan thinker. As the Social Contract, Emile was immediately banned…
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (Summary)
Summary of the Critique of Pure Reason: The Critique of Pure Reason, published by Immanuel Kant in 1781, is one of the most complex…
Nietzsche: The Will to power
The Will to power at the heart of Nietzsche’s Philosophy The will to power is the title of an unfinished work, begun to 1883,…
Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (Analysis)
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of the founders of the modern novel. Crime and Punishment tells the story of redemption….
Camus: The Fall (Analysis)
The Fall by Camus explores the theme of guilt: the thesis of this philosophical novel in one sentence: we are all responsible for everything….
Celine: Journey to the End of the Night (Summary)
Journey to the End of the Nightis the first and most famous novel by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Beyond the stylistic revolution brought by Celine, this…