20 Best politics books like Not Thinking like a Liberal by Raymond Geuss

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Not Thinking like a Liberal

By: Raymond Geuss

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative a…

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1. The Concept of the Political

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

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2. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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3. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"

-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

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4. For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

By: Louis Althusser

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought. This is the work in which Louis Alth… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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6. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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10. The German Ideology

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

11. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more

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12. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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13. The Road to Power

By: Karl Kautsky , None , None

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The Road to Power was a highly controversial political pamphlet published in 1909--an important doc… read more

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14. Bouvard and Pecuchet

By: Gustave Flaubert , Raymond Queneau , Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης , None

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce ... A book in which I shall … read more

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15. The Country and the City

By: Raymond Williams

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city… read more

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16. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

17. Pnin

By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more

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18. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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19. Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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21. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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22. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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25. Not Thinking like a Liberal

By: Raymond Geuss

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

26. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Cover of Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) by Elizabeth S.  Anderson

27. Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)

By: Elizabeth S. Anderson

3.99

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four Am… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses govern in ways that are largely unaccountable to those who are governed. They don’t merely govern workers; they domi…"

-Elizabeth S. Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)

Cover of The class struggle (Erfurt program) (The Norton library, N567) by Karl Kautsky

28. The class struggle (Erfurt program) (The Norton library, N567)

By: Karl Kautsky

3.57

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

English, German (translation) read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism."

-Karl Kautsky, The class struggle (Erfurt program) (The Norton library, N567)

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29. First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association

By: Wolfgang Eckhardt

4.47

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The First Socialist Schism chronicles the conflicts in the International Working Men’s Association … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

By: Kenan Malik

4.30

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War

By: Grey Anderson

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Did NATO cause the crisis in Ukraine? Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of N… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

18 must-read philosophy books like Not Thinking like a Liberal by Raymond Geuss

Transform Your Habits

The Concept of the Political

George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen

4.06

Transform Your Habits

For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

Louis Althusser

3.93

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14 must-read history books like Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) by Elizabeth S. Anderson

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

Corey Robin

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Common Sense

Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

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