Civilization and its Discontents | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Freud's epoch making

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This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil’s friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys

This will have an impact on the places where we learn

mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Featuring the celebrated essay "The Question Concerning Technology

This first volume covers the years 1905–1928

has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins

showing how Arendt developed a form of literary and cultural analysis that is entirely her own

it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times' The Nation

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While this book primarily focuses on Mochtar’s literary works

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