Human Science

Every Body

by Julia Rothman – Voracious (January 04, 2021)

Experience a radically inclusive and informative collection of stories, essays, interviews, and art about sex, relationships, and body confidence.

When Our Bodies, Ourselves was first published in 1970, it was...

The Dream of the Red Chamber

by Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

The Dream of the Red Chamber is believed to be semi-autobiographical, mirroring the rise and decline of author Cao Xueqin's own family and, by extension, of the Qing dynasty. As the author details in the first...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

by David Hume – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature,...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

by David Hume – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the...

Zadig: Or, The Book of Fate

by Voltaire – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (French: Zadig ou la Destinée; 1747) is a novella and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia....

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

by David Hume – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (EPM) is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume. In it, Hume argues (among other things) that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not...

The Analects of Confuius

by Confucius – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

The Analects, also known as the Analects of Confucius, is an ancient Chinese book composed of a large collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally...

A Treatise of Human Nature

by David Hume – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

A Treatise of Human Nature (1739?40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. The...

Emile

by Jean-Jaques Rousseau – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l?éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important"...

The Philosophical Theory of the State

by Bernard Rosanquet – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

Excerpt: " A Greek city-state presented a marked contrast to the modes of human association which prevailed in the non-Greek world. It differed from them above all things by its distinct individuality. No doubt...

Thoughts - Pensées

by Blaise Pascal – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the...

The Social Contract & Discourses

by Jean-Jaques Rousseau – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

A book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754)....

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

by Michel de Montaigne – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. They were originally written in Middle French and were originally published in the Kingdom of France. Montaigne's...

Nature

by Ralph Waldo Emerson – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

Nature is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional...

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

There are very few writers who have ever imparted more wisdom in so few words. If Thomas Jefferson is the spirit of America then Ralph Waldo Emerson was its soul. A person who reads the words of Emerson cannot...

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duel

by John Donne – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose wo rk by the English writer John Donne, who dedicated it to the future King Charles I. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from...

Confessions

by Jean-Jaques Rousseau – Otbebookpublishing (January 13, 2021)

The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from Saint Augustine's...

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud – Personal Development Publishing (January 14, 2021)

Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. It is considered his most brilliant work. In it he states his...