David Hume’s ‘It All Happened On the 8:15 From King’s Cross, London to Edinburgh, calling at Cambridge, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Leeds-upon-Sea, Durham, Durham-A-Priori, Newcastle Glasgow, Back-to-Newcastle, Edinburgh-on-Sea, Edinburgh-A-Fortiori, & Edinburgh’, Penguin Classics. Also Saul Bellow’s ‘The Victim’.
My pick: Les Miserables by Hugo; War a nd Peace, Anna Karenina, and by Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection; The Brothers Karazamov, by Dostoyevsky; Brave New World and Island, by Aldous Huxley, Narziss and Golmund and Siddartha by Hermann Hesse, and Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm.
Thank you for the Inspiration. I discovered recently the Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov and through him was able to immerse myself in Russian prerevolutionary life and the hardships of life as an exile, which touched me very much.
Hi, nice video. I enjoyed Caligula by Camus, which I guess isn't a novel. Also, All Men are Mortal by de Beauvoir was fantastic, not very philosophical, but it did at least push its argument to the extreme.
I suggest readings by and about Bertrand Russell. His Problems of Philosophy is short and his History of Western Philosophy is long, but both are worthwhile. About Bertrand Russell may be found in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which also includes links to many topics.
I"am agree with the selection, I would add; Steppe wolf and Demian ( Jung theory) by Hermann Hesse, and Doctor Faustus and Death in Veneci ( The travel from Apollonius to Dionisio-A master adaptation of the Origin of the tragedy by Nietzsche).
Hello!! I have done 4 videos on the same theme titled "Greatest Philosophical Novels of all time" in which I have discussed 25 novels. Hope you will like it. Yours is, too, a great recommendation:))
Nice and interesting discussion. But what about the novels by Nikos Kazantzakis? From «The Saviors of God» and «Alexis Zorba» to «The Last Temptation» and the «Report to Greco» one can find extremely deep philosophical thoughts. Don't forget also that when Camus received the Nobel Prize (Kazantzakis was nominated nine times) he wrote to Kazantzakis's widow, Helen: “I’ve always admired and, if I may, adored your husband’s work. And I also never forget that the day I was so sad and had to accept honours that Kazantzakis deserved 100 times more than me, I received from him the most generous telegram. Soon I was horrified to notice that this message was written a few days before his death. With his loss, we lost one of the last great artists…” In case you haven't read Kazantzakis yet, I'm sure you'll discover a great writer with a deep and very special philosophical view of the human condition.
Sophie's world is a great spring board that introduced me to philosophy
David Hume’s ‘It All Happened On the 8:15 From King’s Cross, London to Edinburgh, calling at Cambridge, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Leeds-upon-Sea, Durham, Durham-A-Priori, Newcastle Glasgow, Back-to-Newcastle, Edinburgh-on-Sea, Edinburgh-A-Fortiori, & Edinburgh’, Penguin Classics. Also Saul Bellow’s ‘The Victim’.
My pick: Les Miserables by Hugo; War a nd Peace, Anna Karenina, and by Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection; The Brothers Karazamov, by Dostoyevsky; Brave New World and Island, by Aldous Huxley, Narziss and Golmund and Siddartha by Hermann Hesse, and Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm.
You already read Steppenwolf by Hesse?
Thank you for the Inspiration. I discovered recently the Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov and through him was able to immerse myself in Russian prerevolutionary life and the hardships of life as an exile, which touched me very much.
I would add Magister Ludi or The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse and Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Agree ....The Glass Bead Game is a masterpiece.
Hi, nice video. I enjoyed Caligula by Camus, which I guess isn't a novel. Also, All Men are Mortal by de Beauvoir was fantastic, not very philosophical, but it did at least push its argument to the extreme.
Thank you for your recommendations!
Superb list, I don't know the Polish Author, I'll check that out, otherwise, brilliant list.
I suggest readings by and about Bertrand Russell. His Problems of Philosophy is short and his History of Western Philosophy is long, but both are worthwhile. About Bertrand Russell may be found in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which also includes links to many topics.
I"am agree with the selection, I would add; Steppe wolf and Demian ( Jung theory) by Hermann Hesse, and Doctor Faustus and Death in Veneci ( The travel from Apollonius to Dionisio-A master adaptation of the Origin of the tragedy by Nietzsche).
thanks for introducing me to ferdydurke and solaris
Hello!! I have done 4 videos on the same theme titled "Greatest Philosophical Novels of all time" in which I have discussed 25 novels. Hope you will like it.
Yours is, too, a great recommendation:))
Nice and interesting discussion. But what about the novels by Nikos Kazantzakis? From «The Saviors of God» and «Alexis Zorba» to «The Last Temptation» and the «Report to Greco» one can find extremely deep philosophical thoughts. Don't forget also that when Camus received the Nobel Prize (Kazantzakis was nominated nine times) he wrote to Kazantzakis's widow, Helen: “I’ve always admired and, if I may, adored your husband’s work. And I also never forget that the day I was so sad and had to accept honours that Kazantzakis deserved 100 times more than me, I received from him the most generous telegram. Soon I was horrified to notice that this message was written a few days before his death. With his loss, we lost one of the last great artists…” In case you haven't read Kazantzakis yet, I'm sure you'll discover a great writer with a deep and very special philosophical view of the human condition.
I'd add some of Matt Haig's novels, especially the Midnight Library
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I would like to add Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse to the list.
I liked Sophie's World.
Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon
No Ayn Rand ?
No
Six Months in 1977 by Kit McQuinn…😊
The myth of Sisyphus by Camus.
With a last name this you have to be Bayern or Barca fan, right? 😂
It's actually a very common last name in Poland!
I’ll have to disappoint you, as I don’t watch football 😎