Nietzsche's remarkable collection of aphorisms, presented with a new introduction by Richard Schacht.

Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country's revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism.

Presented with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on positive philosophy by FWJ Schelling, this book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. It concentrates on Socrates, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories.

Encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in Nietzsche's other works. This title also contains an 8,000-word introduction by its translator, the famous iconoclastic writer H L Mencken.

The acknowledged masterpiece of Unamuno expresses the anguish of modern man as he is caught up in the struggle between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart.

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of society and its assumptions, a dissection of modern lives and loves.

Reveals an understanding of human mean-spiritedness.

Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus were some of the most important existentialist thinkers. This book provides an account of the existentialist movement, and of the themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility which make it a 'philosophy as a way of life'.

Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once ..

Presents Nietzsche's works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. This title offers an account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. It also presents Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology.

Presents the story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism.

The Imaginary marks the first attempt to introduce Husserl's work into the English-speaking world. This new translation rectifies flaws in the 1948 translation and recaptures the essence of Sartre's phenomenology.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote on religious, psychological, and literary themes. This book shows how Kierkegaard developed his views in emphatic opposition to prevailing opinions. It provides an introduction by showing how Kiekegaard has influenced contemporary thought.

The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This is an examination of one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century.

The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. This title offers a selection of Nietzsche's writings.

A young Brahmin searches for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation.

The story of a fragile love between a man doomed to immortality and a beautiful ambitious actress obsessed with living forever in his memory. The novel is seen as a vehicle for the author's philosophy of existentialism and considered to be one of De Beauvoir's finest writings.

This handy guide to Albert Camus' The Stranger is essential reading for students.