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44) Essays
Author
Pub. Date
[1955, c1952]
Description
Montaigne's „The Essays" is an unusual book, largely due to the author's attitude to it. This is an exclusively everyday book, suitable for everyday use, in which the author does not discuss how the world works and where everything goes, but discusses the essential: how to raise children, how to build a married life, how to spend leisure time, etc. At the same time, Montaigne does not have a very high opinion of himself, although he praises him...
47) Capital
Author
Pub. Date
c1952
Description
Perhaps one of the most infamous works of the modern world, Capital is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, this work extensively attempts to expose and explain the capitalist mode of production and the class struggles embedded within it. Capital was written while Marx was exiled in England, and many of the...
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 1
Pub. Date
c1952
Description
Short essays on important "ideas" in Western culture; with references (by page and vol.) to other books in the series "Great Books of the Western World" & additional readings not in the series.
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