The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simo…
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1. La persona e il sacro
By: Simone Weil , None
0.00
Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Uno degli scritti piu celebri di Simone Weil, pubblicato in origine come saggio in <>n. 36 (dic. 19… read more
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2. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- biography
- history
- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
3. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- philosophy
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- audiobook
5. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- philosophy
- audiobook
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
6. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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- german literature
- biography
- history
- germany
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
By: John Gray
3.54
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
By: Clare Mac Cumhaill
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Ir… read more
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- feminism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
10. The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simo… read more
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- german literature
- biography
- history
- feminism
- politics
- germany
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
11. Hoe migratie echt werkt
By: Hein de Haas
4.43
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Migratie-expert Hein de Haas vertelt het ware verhaal over migratie en de effecten ervan. Al jar… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
By: James Poskett
3.79
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
“A radical retelling… Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again
By: Robert Kagan
4.48
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
14. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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- biography
- history
- audiobook
15. The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
By: Robert Zaretsky
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth centur… read more
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- politics
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16. Tripas: Poems
By: Brandon Som
3.95
Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more
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17. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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- audiobook
18. Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
By: Kate Kirkpatrick
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman', wrote Simone de Beauvoir. This is a woman who wa… read more
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- history
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- womens
"Being a self involves perpetual change with others who are also changing, in a process of irreversible becoming."-Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
"What if becoming yourself simultaneously means being seen as a failure to be what you should be - a failure as a woman, or as a lover, or as a mother?"-Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
19. The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century
By: Robin Niblett
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking … read more
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20. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
By: Daniel Chandler
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more
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21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
