XVIII век

Эпоха Просвещения пылает революционными идеями о человеческой природе, знании и обществе на фоне напудренных париков, парусных кораблей и освещённых свечами салонов. Здесь вы найдёте философские трактаты, сформировавшие современную мысль, наряду с историями приключений и скандалов из эпохи, когда разум и страсть сталкивались самым впечатляющим образом.

XVIII век Саммари книг

The 120 Days of Sodom

— Marquis de Sade

Four libertines lock a château, fill it with kidnapped children, and appetite becomes the only rule.

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💀 Transgressive Fiction 🏰 18th Century France 📖 Story Within Stories 🩺 Clinical Horror 🎭 Libertine Philosophy

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The 120 Days of Sodom

Four libertines lock a château, fill it with kidnapped children, and appetite becomes the only rule.

— Marquis de Sade 2009 376 стр.

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💀 Transgressive Fiction 🏰 18th Century France 📖 Story Within Stories 🩺 Clinical Horror 🎭 Libertine Philosophy

Les liaisons dangereuses

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos • 1782

Two aristocratic predators turn seduction into a blood sport, and their letters confess every kill.

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✉️ Epistolary Novel 🎭 Libertine Fiction 🐍 Female Villain 🕸️ Sexual Manipulation 🥀 Innocence Corrupted

Les liaisons dangereuses

Two aristocratic predators turn seduction into a blood sport, and their letters confess every kill.

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782 402 стр.

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✉️ Epistolary Novel 🎭 Libertine Fiction 🐍 Female Villain 🕸️ Sexual Manipulation 🥀 Innocence Corrupted

Робинзон Крузо

— Даниель Дефо • 1719

A shipwreck leaves one man alone on a deserted island, where he must build a world from scratch.

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🏝️ Deserted Island 🔧 Survival Ingenuity 🤔 Reflective Solitude ⛵ Colonial Adventure 🤝 Cross-Cultural Bond

Робинзон Крузо

A shipwreck leaves one man alone on a deserted island, where he must build a world from scratch.

— Даниель Дефо 1719 320 стр.

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🏝️ Deserted Island 🔧 Survival Ingenuity 🤔 Reflective Solitude ⛵ Colonial Adventure 🤝 Cross-Cultural Bond

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

— Immanuel Kant • 1998

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason 🤝 Respect For Persons

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

— Immanuel Kant 1998 120 стр.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason 🤝 Respect For Persons

Critique of Judgment

— Immanuel Kant • 1790

Beauty demands universal agreement from nothing more than your own private feeling.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory ⛰️ The Sublime 🌸 Beauty And Taste 📚 German Idealism 🌿 Philosophy Of Nature

Critique of Judgment

Beauty demands universal agreement from nothing more than your own private feeling.

— Immanuel Kant 1790 686 стр.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory ⛰️ The Sublime 🌸 Beauty And Taste 📚 German Idealism 🌿 Philosophy Of Nature

Critique of Practical Reason

— Immanuel Kant • 1788

Morality comes from reason alone, not feelings or consequences; through it we discover our freedom.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason 🇩🇪 German Idealism 🕯️ Enlightenment Thought

Critique of Practical Reason

Morality comes from reason alone, not feelings or consequences; through it we discover our freedom.

— Immanuel Kant 1788 181 стр.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason 🇩🇪 German Idealism 🕯️ Enlightenment Thought

The Dream of the Red Chamber

— Cao Xueqin • 1791

A jade-born youth drifts through poetry and passion while his noble family slides toward ruin.

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🏯 Family Saga 🏚️ Declining Aristocracy 💔 Love Triangle 💭 Unspoken Love 🌧️ Melancholic

The Dream of the Red Chamber

A jade-born youth drifts through poetry and passion while his noble family slides toward ruin.

— Cao Xueqin 1791 966 стр.

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🏯 Family Saga 🏚️ Declining Aristocracy 💔 Love Triangle 💭 Unspoken Love 🌧️ Melancholic

England's Mistress

— Kate Williams • 2006

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Georgian England 👩‍🎨 Women's Biography 🎨 Artist's Muse 🎭 Performance Art 🌟 Celebrity Biography

England's Mistress

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

— Kate Williams 2006 415 стр.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Georgian England 👩‍🎨 Women's Biography 🎨 Artist's Muse 🎭 Performance Art 🌟 Celebrity Biography

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

— Immanuel Kant • 2004

Kant's early map: everything in human life divides between awe and joy, from love to nations.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🕯️ Enlightenment Thought 🏔️ The Sublime 🌸 Philosophy Of Beauty 🧠 Moral Psychology

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Kant's early map: everything in human life divides between awe and joy, from love to nations.

— Immanuel Kant 2004 124 стр.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🕯️ Enlightenment Thought 🏔️ The Sublime 🌸 Philosophy Of Beauty 🧠 Moral Psychology

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

— Edmund Burke • 1757

Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.

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🎨 Aesthetic Philosophy ⛰️ Sublime And Beautiful 😨 Fear And Aesthetics 📐 Empiricist Aesthetics 🧪 British Empiricism

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.

— Edmund Burke 1757 208 стр.

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🎨 Aesthetic Philosophy ⛰️ Sublime And Beautiful 😨 Fear And Aesthetics 📐 Empiricist Aesthetics 🧪 British Empiricism

Vathek

— William Beckford • 1786

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

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🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

Vathek

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

— William Beckford 1786 180 стр.

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🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

امیل

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau • 1762

Three forces educate every child: nature, things, and people. Only one is trustworthy.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Education 🧒 Child Development 🌿 Natural Education 🧪 Experiential Learning 👁️ Sensory Training

امیل

Three forces educate every child: nature, things, and people. Only one is trustworthy.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 408 стр.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Education 🧒 Child Development 🌿 Natural Education 🧪 Experiential Learning 👁️ Sensory Training

Preface to Shakespeare

— Samuel Johnson • 1778

Why Shakespeare's greatness survives his flaws: Samuel Johnson's landmark verdict from 1778.

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🎭 Shakespeare Criticism 🏛️ Neoclassical Criticism ⚖️ Taste And Judgment 📜 Canon Formation 🕰️ Historical Context

Preface to Shakespeare

Why Shakespeare's greatness survives his flaws: Samuel Johnson's landmark verdict from 1778.

— Samuel Johnson 1778 68 стр.

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🎭 Shakespeare Criticism 🏛️ Neoclassical Criticism ⚖️ Taste And Judgment 📜 Canon Formation 🕰️ Historical Context

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

— George Berkeley • 1710

Things exist only while perceived. So what keeps the universe intact when no one is watching?

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🔮 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 🌌 Metaphysics 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception And Reality

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Things exist only while perceived. So what keeps the universe intact when no one is watching?

— George Berkeley 1710 80 стр.

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🔮 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 🌌 Metaphysics 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception And Reality

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

— George Berkeley • 1988

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

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📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📚 Epistemology

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

— George Berkeley 1988 224 стр.

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📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📚 Epistemology

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

— George Berkeley • 1713

Matter is a useless hypothesis. Two men argue, and by the end, the physical world vanishes.

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🤔 Epistemology 🌌 Metaphysics 💡 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 👁️ Sensory Perception

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Matter is a useless hypothesis. Two men argue, and by the end, the physical world vanishes.

— George Berkeley 1713 105 стр.

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🤔 Epistemology 🌌 Metaphysics 💡 Idealism 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 👁️ Sensory Perception

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

— Ernst Cassirer • 1932

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

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💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚖️ Natural Law Theory

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

— Ernst Cassirer 1932 384 стр.

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💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚖️ Natural Law Theory

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

— David Hume • 1748

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

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🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

— David Hume 1748 91 стр.

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🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

— David Hume • 1779

The universe looks designed. Why that intuition is philosophically empty, in one landmark dialogue.

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📜 Philosophy Of Religion 🔭 Natural Theology 🤔 Religious Skepticism 😈 The Problem Of Evil 🏗️ Design Arguments

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

The universe looks designed. Why that intuition is philosophically empty, in one landmark dialogue.

— David Hume 1779 160 стр.

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📜 Philosophy Of Religion 🔭 Natural Theology 🤔 Religious Skepticism 😈 The Problem Of Evil 🏗️ Design Arguments

Abundance

— Sena Jeter Naslund • 2006

At fourteen she enters Versailles craving love from a nation that will one day guillotine her.

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🇫🇷 Revolutionary France 👑 Tragic Queen 🎭 Court Intrigue ✊ Feminist Retelling 🖋️ Fictionalized Biography

Abundance

At fourteen she enters Versailles craving love from a nation that will one day guillotine her.

— Sena Jeter Naslund 2006 556 стр.

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🇫🇷 Revolutionary France 👑 Tragic Queen 🎭 Court Intrigue ✊ Feminist Retelling 🖋️ Fictionalized Biography

The Songbird of Venice

— Victoria Sportelli • 2024

An orphan singer in Venice weds a noble widower, gaining a daughter and a lethal enemy.

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💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🎭 Orphan Heroine 💔 Widower Hero 👨‍👩‍👧 Blended Family 👑 Cinderella Arc

The Songbird of Venice

An orphan singer in Venice weds a noble widower, gaining a daughter and a lethal enemy.

— Victoria Sportelli 2024 371 стр.

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💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🎭 Orphan Heroine 💔 Widower Hero 👨‍👩‍👧 Blended Family 👑 Cinderella Arc

The Monk

— Matthew Gregory Lewis • 1796

A monk revered as a saint falls into lust, murder, and a bargain with the Devil.

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🖤 Gothic Horror ✝️ Religious Horror 😈 Demonic Pact ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 📉 Fall From Grace

The Monk

A monk revered as a saint falls into lust, murder, and a bargain with the Devil.

— Matthew Gregory Lewis 1796 385 стр.

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🖤 Gothic Horror ✝️ Religious Horror 😈 Demonic Pact ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 📉 Fall From Grace

The Silk Weaver

— Liz Trenow • 2017

His silk loom, her secret sketches: forbidden love in Georgian London that could ruin them both.

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💘 Forbidden Romance 🧵 Artisan Craft 🎨 Creative Partnership 👩‍🎨 Female Artist ✊ Workers' Struggle

The Silk Weaver

His silk loom, her secret sketches: forbidden love in Georgian London that could ruin them both.

— Liz Trenow 2017 416 стр.

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💘 Forbidden Romance 🧵 Artisan Craft 🎨 Creative Partnership 👩‍🎨 Female Artist ✊ Workers' Struggle

The Vicar of Wakefield

— Oliver Goldsmith • 1766

When fortune deserts a vicar, a rakish landlord's charm lures his daughters into peril.

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🕯️ Sentimental Novel 🌿 Rural Simplicity 🪜 Social Climbing 🎭 Disguised Identity 🎁 Secret Benefactor

The Vicar of Wakefield

When fortune deserts a vicar, a rakish landlord's charm lures his daughters into peril.

— Oliver Goldsmith 1766 197 стр.

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🕯️ Sentimental Novel 🌿 Rural Simplicity 🪜 Social Climbing 🎭 Disguised Identity 🎁 Secret Benefactor

Egmont

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1788

Count Egmont's trust in his Spanish king makes him a hero to the Dutch and a target.

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⚰️ Political Martyrdom ⛓️ Tyranny And Resistance 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🥀 Tragic Idealism 🕯️ Self-Sacrifice

Egmont

Count Egmont's trust in his Spanish king makes him a hero to the Dutch and a target.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 68 стр.

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⚰️ Political Martyrdom ⛓️ Tyranny And Resistance 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🥀 Tragic Idealism 🕯️ Self-Sacrifice

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