The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
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Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Kripke
Duty of Genius by Monk (biography but does a lot to explain Wittgenstein’s philosophy)
Wittgenstein is really hard in the original but I can’t remember any of the great explainer books I read as an undergrad many years ago. Look for stuff on the later Wittgenstein when he got into aesthetics and stuff; that hard core philosophy of language stuff in the early Wittgenstein is hard to take unless that’s really your thing.
The Socratic dialogues (my favorite is the Theateteus)
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Essays by Michel de Montaigne.
Republic by Plato.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Kripke
Duty of Genius by Monk (biography but does a lot to explain Wittgenstein’s philosophy)
Wittgenstein is really hard in the original but I can’t remember any of the great explainer books I read as an undergrad many years ago. Look for stuff on the later Wittgenstein when he got into aesthetics and stuff; that hard core philosophy of language stuff in the early Wittgenstein is hard to take unless that’s really your thing.
The Socratic dialogues (my favorite is the Theateteus)