5 must-read theology books like Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information by John D. Caputo

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Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information

By: John D. Caputo

4.20

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a th…

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1. 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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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

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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
"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. Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life."

-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

"Nazism is essentially based on the negation of the human nature of the other, while Fascism is based on the aggressive inclusion of the other, and the punishment and extermination of those who refuse…"

-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

"L’identità è lo strumento percettivo e concettuale che ci dà una possibilità di conoscenza, ma noi scambiamo questa conoscenza per un ri-conoscimento. Cosicché siamo condotti a credere di sapere già,…"

-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

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4. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

By: Martin Heidegger , None

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume are intriguing, challeng… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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6. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity

By: James D. Tabor

4.48

Format: 356 pages, ebook

This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals sharply competing ideas … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology

7. Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects

By: Anthony Dunne , Fiona Raby

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Dunne and Raby investigate the real physical and cultural effects of the digital domain, demonstrat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

By: Stephen R.C. Hicks

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their developmen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy

By: Alain Badiou , David Macey

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Pocket Pantheonis an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

By: Mortimer J. Adler , Charles van Doren

3.98

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. I… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"In short, we can only learn from our "betters"."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"A good rule always describes the ideal performance."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

-Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

12. We Have Never Been Modern

By: Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever … read more

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13. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

By: Gillian Rose

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more

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14. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

By: Nick Srnicek , Alex Williams

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity … read more

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15. A Confession

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.10

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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16. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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17. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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19. The Shadow King

By: Maaza Mengiste

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to … read more

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"The routine dulls the terror."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

"He holds no importance except what memory allows."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

"What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

"what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

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20. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.94

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

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22. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • academic
"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

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23. Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information

By: John D. Caputo

4.20

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a th… read more

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  • language
  • theology
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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24. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

By: David J. Chalmers

3.73

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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25. Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By: Jens Zimmermann

4.02

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrins… read more

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  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Natural science, economics, and politics depend on literature, philosophy, and religion for educating the imagination... we cannot oppose facts to values, but... all facts are integrated into meaning…"

-Jens Zimmermann, Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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26. Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. Dialectical Logic

By: Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The task, bequeathed to us by Lenin, of creating a Logic (with a capital 'L'), i.e. of a systematic… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of the ‘spirit’ – the categories and schemas of logic – are inferred from …"

-Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov, Dialectical Logic

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28. Positions

By: Jacques Derrida

3.67

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and l… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"(the pharmakon is neither remedy now poison, neither good nor evil, neither the inside nor the outside, neither speech nor writing; the supplement is neither a plus nor a minus, neither an outside no…"

-Jacques Derrida, Positions

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29. Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth (Philosophy of Technology)

By: Don Ihde

4.09

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

" . . . Dr. Ihde brings an enlightening and deeply humanistic perspective to major technological de… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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30. A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls

By: Stephen P. Schwartz

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of … read more

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  • philosophy
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31. Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, And Critical Design

By: Anthony Dunne

4.24

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products --… read more

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13 Top politics books like Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information by John D. Caputo

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Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)

Franco "Bifo" Berardi

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

Stephen R.C. Hicks

3.09

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Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Mark Fisher

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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen

4.06

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