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…
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1. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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2. On Revolution
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more
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- philosophy
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- history
- nonfiction
3. The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
By: T.S. Eliot , Simone Weil
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testi… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
4. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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5. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
By: None
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more
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6. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
7. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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8. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
By: Maggie Nelson
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more
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9. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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- nonfiction
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
10. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.05
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more
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11. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
12. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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- france
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"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
13. 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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- history
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14. 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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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
15. Sontag: Her Life and Work
By: Benjamin Moser
4.21
Format: 832 pages, ebook
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing a… read more
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16. How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage (Morgan Harper Nichols Poetry Collection)
By: Morgan Harper Nichols
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
How Far You Have Come is an exquisitely illustrated collection of poetry and essays from bestsellin… read more
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- memoir
17. 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
- philosophy
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- france
- french literature
18. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
By: Kate Manne
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to b… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Sexism is hence to bad science as misogyny is to moralism. Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
19. La destrucción o el amor
By: Vicente Aleixandre
3.96
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
Considerada por muchos como la obra maestra de Vicente Aleixandre, y uno de los hitos de la poesía … read more
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20. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
By: Robert Chapman
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more
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21. El hombre y lo divino
By: María Zambrano
4.31
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Aparecida por vez primera en 1955 y sustancialmente ampliada en su reedición de 1973, "El hombre y … read more
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