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Nietzsche questions the assumptions behind established ideas of morality and truth. Through arguments and aphorisms, he examines the interests concealed within philosophical systems and challenges readers to reconsider how values acquire authority over human life.
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Marx and Engels present their interpretation of history as a conflict between social classes and analyse the relationship between capital and wage labour. Written for the Communist League, the pamphlet sets out a political programme and argues for international working-class solidarity.
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Written in the manner of a learned medical treatise, this eighteenth-century satire turns bodily embarrassment into a subject for elaborate classification. Hurtaut applies scholarly seriousness to flatulence, exposing the absurdity of social pretensions along the way. Its mock science invites readers to laugh at conventions surrounding dignity, manners and the human body.
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Machiavelli examines how rulers acquire power, maintain authority and respond to unstable circumstances. Drawing on political examples, the treatise confronts the tension between conventional moral expectations and the practical choices made to preserve a state.
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