The Trouble with Being Born - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Trouble with Being Born write by E. M. Cioran. This book was released on 2013-02-01. The Trouble with Being Born available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience. “A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone’s hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison.”—The New Yorker “In the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."—Publishers Weekly "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Boston Phoenix
Better Never to Have Been
Better Never to Have Been - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Better Never to Have Been write by David Benatar. This book was released on 2008. Better Never to Have Been available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. David Benatar presents a startling challenge to these assumptions. He argues that people systematically overestimate the quality of their life, and suffer quite serious harms by coming into existence.
The Trouble with Taiwan
The Trouble with Taiwan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Trouble with Taiwan write by Kerry Brown. This book was released on 2019-10-01. The Trouble with Taiwan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Fresh and authoritative, written with brio and precision.’ Thomas Plate, author of Yo-Yo Diplomacy ‘An important and timely guide to one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for future conflict between the West and China.’James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China ‘Brown and Wu Tzu-hui help situate a Taiwan whose “place” in the world is otherwise plagued by uncertainty.’ Benjamin Zawacki, author of Thailand
Cosmic Pessimism
Cosmic Pessimism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmic Pessimism write by Eugene Thacker. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Cosmic Pessimism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “We’re doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place. Though pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human. Written in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker’s Cosmic Pessimism explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy. “Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
He Wants
He Wants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook He Wants write by Alison Moore. This book was released on 2016-03-15. He Wants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lewis Sullivan lives less than a mile from his childhood home. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup, and he spends his evenings at his second favorite pub for half a shandy and sausage. But when an old friend appears, Lewis finds his comfortable life shaken up, and he longs for more excitement. A modern-day Death in Venice by the author of Booker-shortlisted The Lighthouse, He Wants is charged and unpredictable. Alison Moore is the author of one previous novel, The Lighthouse, and a short story collection The Pre-War Horse. She lives in Nottingham, England.
