13 best-selling nonfiction books like Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola

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Can Life Prevail?

By: Pentti Linkola

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Softcover

With the train of civilisation hurtling at ever-increasing speed towards self-destruction, the most…

"Jos kansan ääntä kuunnellaan, ei toivoa ole. Demokratia on kuoleman uskonto."

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Jos kansan ääntä kuunnellaan, ei toivoa ole. Demokratia on kuoleman uskonto."

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Every example throughout the history of humanity shows that only deprivation and struggle create a human life worthy of the name"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Every example throughout the history of humanity shows that only deprivation and struggle create a human life worthy of the name"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Gooseberries and other stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Constance Garnett

3.76

Format: None pages, ebook

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied h… read more

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  • philosophy
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа."

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

"Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!"

-Anton Chekhov, Gooseberries and other stories

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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3. Point Counter Point

By: Aldous Huxley

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest ex… read more

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  • philosophy
"¡Cómo la odio a usted, en realidad, por obligarme a quererla tanto!"

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"But one does not marry a set of virtues and talents; one marries an individual human being."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos."

-Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

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4. The Pigeon

By: Patrick Süskind

3.71

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick… read more

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"من تعويض البطالة وحده لا يمكن للمرء أن يعيش."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"لم يكن يتخيل أن يحدث له في حياته أي شيء ذات أهمية ما عدا موته."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"أراد أن يصرخ بجملة أنه لا يستطيع الحياة دون الناس الآخرين في وجه السكون، إلى هذا المدى بلغت حاجته."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

"كيف يمكن لهذا المرء الذي تجاوز الخمسين من عمره أن يبقى على قيد الحياة حتى الآن؟ بطريقة حياته المستهترة هذه."

-Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

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5. Vihan ja katkeruuden esseet

By: Antti Nylén

3.63

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Parnassossa ja Nuori Voima -lehdessä kitkeriä, mutta valloittavia esseitä julkaissut Antti Nylén ki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • finnish literature
"Sitä paitsi rakastan kettutyttöä, koska kukaan muu ei rakasta häntä. Hän on kokonaan minun. Ja rakastan kettutyttöä siksi, että hän on tyttö, vaikka hän olisi poika."

-Antti Nylén, Vihan ja katkeruuden esseet

"Kirjat ovat paljon vaarallisempia kuin kovat huumeet tai suojaamaton seksi, jotka pahimmassakin tapauksessa tekevät ihmisestä vain kuolleen. Kirjat, varsinkin kovat, voivat tehdä nuoresta ihmisestä e…"

-Antti Nylén, Vihan ja katkeruuden esseet

"Kissa ja nainen esiintyvät samassa merkityskentässä. Kissalla on "emäntä" ja koiralla "isäntä". Koiran ja miehen suhde perustuu valtaan, kissan ja naisen suhde kumppanuuteen. Kun kissa yhdistetään na…"

-Antti Nylén, Vihan ja katkeruuden esseet

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6. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola , None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Growth of the Soil

By: Knut Hamsun

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian … read more

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9. Imperium

By: Francis Parker Yockey , Ulick Varange

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

10. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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11. The Will to Power

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale , Walter Kaufmann

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse in… read more

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12. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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Paul Hammond

13. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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  • philosophy
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

14. The Crisis of the Modern World

By: René Guénon , None , None

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more

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15. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

16. Anatomy of the State

By: Murray N. Rothbard

3.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Em A anatomia do estado, Murray Rothbard explica o que o estado e e o que ele nao e. Ele mostra co… read more

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17. The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

By: Karen Armstrong

3.80

Format: 368 pages,

The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand langu… read more

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18. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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19. The Technological Society

By: Robert K. Merton , Jacques Ellul

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendere… read more

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20. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more

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21. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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  • 21st century
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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22. War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers

By: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

3.91

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

MP3 CD Format An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. Gothic Violence

By: Mike Ma

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

GOTHIC VIOLENCE is a fictional dark comedy by author, Mike Ma. Though is a continuation of the firs… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"I spend every day of my life arguing with myself. Inside of my head, arguing with my own thoughts. Full conversations with resolutions, agreements, new outcomes."

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"The longer you stay up past sunset, the darker your thoughts may become. Waves of regret, of loneliness, of fear. All-nighters, unless navigated in a specific way, can lead one to suicide by sunset."

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"Technology is not new. If you were to go back, before or around the life of Christ, you would see wars fought with energy weapons and colossal machines. You would see angels in a military fashion wit…"

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

"Amadeus Mozart, Adolf Hitler, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were all born in Austria. Not very far from one another. How does a country produce these three men in just under two centuries time? Who will …"

-Mike Ma, Gothic Violence

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24. Mine Were of Trouble

By: Peter Kemp

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Spain, 1936. Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Milita… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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25. Can Life Prevail?

By: Pentti Linkola

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Softcover

With the train of civilisation hurtling at ever-increasing speed towards self-destruction, the most… read more

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  • ecology
  • finnish literature
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 21st century
  • political science
  • environment
  • nature
"Jos kansan ääntä kuunnellaan, ei toivoa ole. Demokratia on kuoleman uskonto."

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Every example throughout the history of humanity shows that only deprivation and struggle create a human life worthy of the name"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Machines, however, were already looming upon us and were soon destined to strike at the heart of the wilderness — and elsewhere as well — depriving man of all he deserved: mighty labour, effort and s…"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

"Every individual who walks, runs, rides bikes, swims, rows, paddles, skis, shovels or hoes is setting up a line of defence against the mad onslaught of machines; if he is a parent, grandparent, teach…"

-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

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26. Finally, Some Good News

By: Delicious Tacos

3.88

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Two birdwatchers survive a nuclear holocaust. read more

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27. The Biocentric Worldview: Selected Essays and Poems of Ludwig Klages

By: Ludwig Klages

3.99

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

This book is a selection of essays and poems by the German philosopher and psychologist, Ludwig Kla… read more

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  • ecology
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
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28. Pentti Linkola – Ihminen ja legenda

By: Riitta Kylänpää

4.06

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

Jo 50 vuoden ajan Pentti Linkola on ollut näkyvin ja kuuluvin ekologisen elämänmuodon puolestapuhuj… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • finnish literature
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29. Vuosi herrasmiehenä – Kertomus siitä, kuinka entinen punkkari opetteli miehisiä hyveitä

By: Joonas Konstig

4.02

Format: 474 pages, Hardcover

"Sä oot kyllä niin kaukana herrasmiehestä kuin olla voi!" – vaimo Sana herrasmies loihtii monell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • finnish literature
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30. The Failure of Technology

By: Friedrich Georg Jünger

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Friedrich Georg Jungers grosser Essay Die Perfektion der Technik - 1939 geschrieben, 1946 erstmals … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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31. Esoteric Trumpism

By: Constantin von Hoffmeister

3.78

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Esoteric Trumpism delves into the profound and often unexplored dimensions of Donald Trump’s politi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • essays

10 must-read politics books like Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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Revolt Against the Modern World

Julius Evola , None

4.04

Imperium

Francis Parker Yockey , Ulick Varange

3.50

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Bronze Age Mindset

Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

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Taipei

Tao Lin

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

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Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

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3.59

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