Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
By: Brent Nongbri
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part …
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1. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong
3.93
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic,… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
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"Today nothing is more modern than the onslaught against the political. American financiers, industrial technicians, Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite in demanding tha…"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the …"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
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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"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
3. Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion
By: David Chidester
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and… read more
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4. Who Wrote the Bible?
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The contemporary classic The New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking [and] perceptiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
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"Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible."-Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?
5. 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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- theory
- politics
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- nonfiction
"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
6. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
7. The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
By: None , Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer … read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
8. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
9. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice
By: Catherine Bell
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Arguing that the concept of ritual is overdue for critical rethinking, Bell here offers a close the… read more
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- theory
- religion
- nonfiction
10. Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them
By: Robert A. Orsi
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Between Heaven and Earthexplores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Vi… read more
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11. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
12. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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13. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
14. 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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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
15. The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism
By: None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descri… read more
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16. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
By: Lesslie Newbigin
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marke… read more
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17. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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18. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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19. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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20. The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
By: William T. Cavanaugh
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wis… read more
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21. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
By: None
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in th… read more
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22. Timaeus/Critias
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of dialogues between Socrates, Timaeus, Critias and Hermocrates, these two works ar… read more
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23. A Secular Age
By: Charles Margrave Taylor
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over… read more
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24. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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- history
25. God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible
By: Esther J. Hamori
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swim… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
26. Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept
By: Brent Nongbri
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part … read more
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- 21st century
27. The Ethics/Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect/Selected Letters
By: Baruch Spinoza
4.17
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Since their publications in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Le… read more
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28. Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam
By: Shahab Ahmed
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in … read more
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29. The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion
By: Martin Riesebrodt
3.92
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end o… read more
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30. Race: A Philosophical Introduction
By: Paul C. Taylor
3.89
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the co… read more
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