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Dr Skye Cleary Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author How to Be Authentic / How to be You; How to Live a Good Life; Existentialism & Romantic Love. Thinking Partner at Philosophy at Work. Existential DJ.

26 books
Book Cover for: Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed, Clare Carlisle

Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed

Clare Carlisle
Dr Skye ClearyDr Skye Cleary

"he burned himself out restlessly, relentlessly pursuing this question of how to be a human being" - Clare Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaard @five_books https://t.co/BKHnm4PK5I

Paperback, 2007

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think, Helen de Cruz

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think

Helen de Cruz
Dr Skye ClearyDr Skye Cleary

De Cruz makes an excellent case for intentionally cultivating wonder and awe... It is a vital aspect of our humanity; it galvanizes new ideas and inventions, awesome and wonderful themselves, which nourish and enrich our culture and our lives, individually and collectively.

Hardcover, 2024

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind, Regan Penaluna

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Regan Penaluna
Dr Skye ClearyDr Skye Cleary

May 4 in NYC: Celebrating @reganpenaluna’s brilliant new book HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN! Regan & I will be in conversation plus performance poetry by @GraceBialecki & 21st C earth music by @bluegallo! https://t.co/ALKX5rhZhn

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, Andrea Wulf

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Andrea Wulf
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'The dramatic lives of the Jena Set offer one model of what a Romantic existence might be' - review of Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Nikhil Krishnan @NewYorker https://t.co/EP60Y5Oegg

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition, Nelson Algren

Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition

Nelson Algren
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“Zylberstein has scooped the adaptation rights of de Beauvoir’s “Lettres à Nelson Algren” from Gallimard. The film will chart the pair’s affair… Two-thirds of the movie will take place in Chicago, and the reminder will unfold in Paris.” https://t.co/iZi1gKzyyc

Paperback, 2011

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, Kate Kirkpatrick

Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

Kate Kirkpatrick
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In case you're looking for something to read to celebrate Simone de Beauvoir on her birthday, I highly recommend this biography "Becoming Beauvoir" by @philosofemme https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/out-of-sartres-shadow/

Paperback, 2020

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Inseparable, Simone De Beauvoir

Inseparable

Simone De Beauvoir
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"If you appreciate an intimate novella about friendship, freedom, and love, then read Inseparable" - @finn_janning reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s novella Inseparable https://twitter.com/finn_janning/status/1513133449154113540

Paperback, 2022

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives, Manon Garcia

We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

Manon Garcia
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We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives - book discussion with @ManonGarciaFR @ellieanderphd @FilipaMeloLopes @SdBSociety 📚 https://t.co/4Mm7eoJ8en

Paperback, 2023

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Kate Manne

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Kate Manne
Dr Skye ClearyDr Skye Cleary

Tomorrow: Book club discussion about Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne with @kate_manne @mpigliucci @euthyphro https://t.co/S4nNfuA3sI

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Understanding the Games Men Play: How to Think Like a Man, Britten Wilder

Understanding the Games Men Play: How to Think Like a Man

Britten Wilder
Dr Skye ClearyDr Skye Cleary

Book launch of HOW TO BE AUTHENTIC at @strandbookstore in NYC on August 17 at 7pm! Thrilled to be in conversation with brilliant authors @Samantharhill (HANNAH ARENDT) & @reganpenaluna (HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN forthcoming). Books & tix: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-be-authentic-panel-with-skye-c-cleary-tickets-374557871677 https://t.co/zoWFCuiIoO

Paperback, 2016

$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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