Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income (The Life of Ideas)
By: Anton Jäger
4.25
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government …
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1. Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
By: Jan Assmann
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of … read more
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- history
2. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
By: Christopher I. Beckwith
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
"Greek Buddha" shows how Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian… read more
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- history
4. 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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5. The Dark Enlightenment
By: Nick Land
4.14
Format: 560 pages,
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6. The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation/Politics as a Vocation
By: Max Weber , Tracy B. Strong , Rodney Livingstone , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published separately, Weber's Science as a Vocation and Politics as a Vocation stand as … read more
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7. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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8. Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
By: Melinda Cooper
3.92
Format: None pages,
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9. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
10. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.37
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more
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"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
11. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
13. 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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"[...] 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
14. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
15. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
By: Jennifer Burns
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside J… read more
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16. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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17. Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
3.99
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more
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- nonfiction
- society
18. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- society
19. Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income (The Life of Ideas)
By: Anton Jäger
4.25
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government … read more
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- society
20. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
21. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. Overal zit mens
By: Yves Petry
3.44
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Overal zit mens. Het element mens heeft zich genesteld in elke uithoek van het ondermaanse, in elke… read more
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23. The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy
By: Robert B. Pippin
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s f… read more
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24. The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
By: Richard Whatmore
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian, The End of Enlightenment, offers a… read more
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25. The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
By: Robert Darnton
4.14
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide accla… read more
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26. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By: Samuel Moyn
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
27. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Hegel’s World Revolutions
By: Richard Bourke
3.73
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A new account of the relevance of Hegel’s ideas for today’s world, countering the postwar anti-Hege… read more
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29. Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty ― and What to Do About It
By: Sohrab Ahmari
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that le… read more
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- politics
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- economics
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30. Nietzsche's Great Politics
By: Hugo Drochon
3.62
Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition
"A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about … read more
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- history
"André Malraux is known to have said that if the European Union had to be constructed anew, then he would start with culture."-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics
"See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last man (London: Penguin, 1993). Note the often-overlooked second part where Fukuyama criticizes the end of history as leading to the last man."-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics
"There is no reason to believe that political agency must solely be located in the modern state, and Nietzsche does not hold such a view. He instead locates his political project in the transition awa…"-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics
"Footnote 24 I can't help but hear an echo of Nietzsche's question of 'what type of man should be bred' in Weber's 1895 - the same year that The Antichrist was first published - inaugural lecture 'The…"-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics
31. Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order
By: Stefan J. Link
4.13
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era As the United State… read more
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