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Ethics

Spinoza's geometrical proof of God-Nature identity, determinism, and freedom through understanding. Written in Euclidean format with axioms, propositions, and proofs. The Ethics presents monist metaphysics where everything is God/Nature's modes. …

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Critique of Pure Reason

Kant's foundational work establishes limits of human knowledge and synthetic a priori judgments. Through transcendental idealism, he reconciles rationalism and empiricism. The Critique examines space, time, causality, and knowledge's possibility. …

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The Second Sex

Beauvoir's feminist masterwork analyzes women's oppression through existentialist philosophy. Through biology, psychoanalysis, and history, she examines how women become Other. The famous claim 'One is not born, but rather becomes, …

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Nietzsche's philosophical novel presents prophet Zarathustra proclaiming God's death and Übermensch. Through poetic parables and speeches, it explores eternal return, will to power, and life-affirmation. The work challenges traditional morality …

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The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky's final masterpiece explores faith, doubt, and morality through three brothers and their father's murder. The Grand Inquisitor legend debates freedom versus security and faith versus reason. Through Ivan's atheism, …

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Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky's psychological masterpiece follows Raskolnikov who murders pawnbroker to test his theory of extraordinary individuals. Through guilt, redemption, and Sonya's love, it explores morality, suffering, and salvation. The novel's psychological …

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The Stranger

Camus' existentialist novel follows Meursault who kills man and faces execution with indifference. The protagonist's emotional detachment and refusal to perform social rituals challenge meaning and morality. The work explores …

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Brave New World

Huxley's dystopia depicts pleasure-based totalitarianism through genetic engineering and conditioning. Unlike Orwell's fear, Huxley warned against control through happiness. The novel explores freedom, individuality, technology's dehumanization, and meaning's necessity. Soma, …

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1984

Orwell's dystopian masterpiece depicts totalitarian surveillance state crushing individual freedom. Through Winston Smith's doomed rebellion and doublethink's logic, it explores power, truth, and language manipulation. The novel became definitive warning …

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12 Rules for Life

Peterson's self-help book combines psychology, mythology, and philosophy into practical rules. Through lobsters, archetypes, and meaning, it addresses responsibility and order versus chaos. The work's accessibility and controversial reception made …

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Blood of Elves

First Witcher saga novel follows Ciri's training while kingdoms prepare for war. Through political intrigue and magical education, it explores power's nature and history's cyclical violence. The work shifts from …

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Sword of Destiny

Second Witcher book deepens Geralt's character through stories of Ciri, his destiny child. Through encounters testing neutrality and exploring fatherhood, it examines destiny's inevitability and love's transformative power. The work's …

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The Last Wish

Sapkowski's first Witcher book introduces Geralt through short stories. Through monster hunts revealing human monstrosity, it deconstructs fairy tales and explores choice versus destiny. Geralt's neutrality and the series' moral …

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Foundation

Asimov's saga follows mathematician Hari Seldon using psychohistory to predict Empire's fall and shorten dark age. Through Foundation's preservation of knowledge across centuries, it explores history's patterns and individual action …

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Solaris

Lem's philosophical novel examines humans encountering incomprehensible alien intelligence. Through a sentient ocean manifesting crew's buried memories, it explores communication limits and understanding's impossibility across radical difference. The work critiques …

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Dune

Herbert's epic follows Paul Atreides on desert planet Arrakis, only source of spice melange. Through political intrigue, ecological transformation, and prescient vision, it explores power's corrupting nature and messianic leadership's …

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Pride and Prejudice

Austen's comedy of manners follows Elizabeth Bennet's relationship with proud Mr. Darcy in Regency England. Through wit, social observation, and romantic misunderstandings, it critiques class consciousness and marriage markets while …

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee's novel narrated by young Scout Finch explores racial injustice in 1930s Alabama when her father Atticus defends a Black man falsely accused of rape. Through childhood innocence confronting evil, …

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1984

Orwell's dystopian novel depicts totalitarian society where Big Brother watches everything and the Party controls reality itself. Through Winston Smith's doomed rebellion, it explores surveillance, propaganda, language manipulation, and the …

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The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien's epic fantasy follows the quest to destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. Through Fellowship's journey, battles, and moral choices, it explores power's corruption, friendship's strength, …

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The Way of Zen

Watts's accessible introduction to Zen Buddhism explores its history, principles, and practice. Through meditation, paradox, spontaneity, and enlightenment, it examines Zen's approach to reality and consciousness. The work brought Zen …

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The Ethical Slut

Easton and Hardy's guide challenges monogamy norms and explores ethical non-monogamy. Through communication, boundaries, jealousy, and consent, it offers a framework for non-traditional relationships. The work opened conversations about alternative …

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Pale Fire

Nabokov's experimental novel consists of a 999-line poem and an extensive commentary by a possibly mad scholar. Through unreliable narration, interpretation, and literary games, it explores the nature of art, …

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The Power of Myth

Campbell and journalist Moyers explore mythology's role in human life through wide-ranging conversations. Through archetypes, the hero's journey, and sacred stories, it examines how myths provide meaning and guide personal …

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