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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as continental)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,361,879 ratings — published 1942
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as continental)
avg rating 3.76 — 298,496 ratings — published 1759
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as continental)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,347 ratings — published 1976
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as continental)
avg rating 4.03 — 203,776 ratings — published 1321
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,228 ratings — published 1989
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as continental)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,079 ratings — published 1989
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,558 ratings — published 1972
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as continental)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,350 ratings — published 1981
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,970 ratings — published 1887
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 173,506 ratings — published 1883
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,409 ratings — published 1961
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,386,379 ratings — published 1915
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental)
avg rating 4.28 — 118,561 ratings — published 1929
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as continental)
avg rating 4.05 — 27,506 ratings — published 1927
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as continental)
avg rating 3.94 — 387,215 ratings — published 1925
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,340 ratings — published 1812
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental)
avg rating 3.84 — 220,034 ratings — published 1951
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,978 ratings — published 1980
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,117 ratings — published 1947
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,068 ratings — published 2001
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,175,658 ratings — published -700
Phenomenology of Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as continental)
avg rating 3.96 — 20,288 ratings — published 1807
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.31 — 710,149 ratings — published 2001
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.02 — 110,242 ratings — published 1979
Existentialism is a Humanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,438 ratings — published 1946
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,275 ratings — published 1938
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,023 ratings — published 1957
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,428,810 ratings — published 1943
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 3.71 — 370,368 ratings — published 1856
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,380 ratings — published 1945
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.11 — 513,810 ratings — published 1928
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.04 — 543,523 ratings — published 1985
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,133 ratings — published 1926
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.28 — 412,314 ratings — published 1967
Being and Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 3.99 — 34,704 ratings — published 1943
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,101 ratings — published 1967
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,055,734 ratings — published 1866
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,504 ratings — published 1984
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.03 — 112,096 ratings — published 1886
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,008 ratings — published 1975
Being And Event (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,105 ratings — published 1988
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,367 ratings — published 1857
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as continental)
avg rating 4.11 — 535,977 ratings — published 1984
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as continental)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,875 ratings — published 1990
Collected Poems and Other Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as continental)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,228 ratings — published 1899
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as continental)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,820 ratings — published 2009
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as continental)
avg rating 4.10 — 920,180 ratings — published 1878
The Street of Crocodiles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as continental)
avg rating 3.98 — 13,797 ratings — published 1933
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as continental)
avg rating 3.98 — 95,033 ratings — published 1842
Boredom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as continental)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,421 ratings — published 1960
“Philosophy has an image problem. Philosophers are thought to be mystics, religious figures, bullshit artists—anything divorced from reality... Why is philosophy held in such contempt by many physicists? ... one part of the answer probably lies in the split between the two major branches of modern Western philosophy, Analytic and Continental philosophy.
Continental philosophers tend to be much more suspicious of scientific claims about knowledge and truth than are their analytic colleagues.
Yet the distinction between the two kinds of philosophy is not apparent from a distance—most scientists have never heard of the analytic-Continental divide.
So, given that most of the highly visible philosophers in the public sphere today are Continental, and given the attitude that some (not all) Continental philosophers have toward science, it’s not terribly surprising that scientists often have disdain for all philosophers, and sometimes even think that they can do philosophy better than the philosophers can.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Continental philosophers tend to be much more suspicious of scientific claims about knowledge and truth than are their analytic colleagues.
Yet the distinction between the two kinds of philosophy is not apparent from a distance—most scientists have never heard of the analytic-Continental divide.
So, given that most of the highly visible philosophers in the public sphere today are Continental, and given the attitude that some (not all) Continental philosophers have toward science, it’s not terribly surprising that scientists often have disdain for all philosophers, and sometimes even think that they can do philosophy better than the philosophers can.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
“You can't skip over nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort! That's the easiest solution to the problem!”
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