The Rise and Fall of the Elites
By: Vilfredo Pareto
3.93
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
This book is the first edition in English of a minor classic in sociology. Vilfredo Pareto's long e…
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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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"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. The Concept of the Political
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more
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"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
3. 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
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience
By: William James
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered in Edinburgh 1901/2 "I am neither a theolo… read more
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5. Public Opinion
By: Walter Lippmann
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late jo… read more
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6. 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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- economics
7. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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8. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
By: Ruth Benedict
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and eco… read more
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9. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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10. The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
By: Oswald Spengler
3.76
Format: None pages,
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11. Ölümün Dostu
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Pedro Antonio de Alarcón , Mukadder Yaycıoğlu , Mesut Özden Gözütok
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Uzun Boylu Kadin'in imgesinin Alarcon'un zihnini mesgul ettigi kusku goturmez, ayni kadin, Olumun D… read more
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12. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more
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13. A Hero of Our Time
By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more
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14. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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15. A Girl's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more
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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
16. The Forest Passage
By: Ernst Jünger
4.08
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent think… read more
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"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
"None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-bei…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
"Still more important is the consideration that in many people today a strong need for religious ritual coexists with an aversion to churches. There is a sense of something missing in existence, which…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
17. The Rise and Fall of the Elites
By: Vilfredo Pareto
3.93
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
This book is the first edition in English of a minor classic in sociology. Vilfredo Pareto's long e… read more
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- nonfiction
- italian literature
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- sociology
18. The Ruling Class
By: Gaetano Mosca
3.95
Format: 514 pages, Paperback
Published in 1896, the Elementi di Scienza Politica gained immediate and broad recognition as a mas… read more
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"What happens in order forms of government – namely, that an organized minority imposes its will on the disorganized majority – happens also and to perfection, whatever the appearances to the contrary…"-Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class
"Page 283: The late Saverio Scolari once said that it was impossible for the student of the historical or political sciences to foresee exactly what is going to happen in human societies in any future…"-Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class
"Page 143: There is no use either in cherishing illusions as to the practical consequences of a system in which political power and control of economic production and distribution are irrevocably dele…"-Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class
"Page 229: The great modern fact is the huge standing army that is a severe custodian of the law, is obedient to the orders of a civil authority and has very little political influence, exercising ind…"-Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class
19. Terra e mare. Una riflessione sulla storia del mondo
By: Carl Schmitt
3.89
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
Nel 1942, totalmente isolato nella Berlino in guerra, Carl Schmitt decide di scrivere per la figlia… read more
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"Every fundamental order is a spatial order. One speaks of the constitution of a country or a piece of earth as of its fundamental order, its Nomos. Now, the true, actual fundamental order touches in …"-Carl Schmitt, Terra e mare. Una riflessione sulla storia del mondo
20. Eurocentrism
By: Samir Amin
4.09
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought.… read more
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21. Memoirs of a Dissident Psychologist
By: Richard Lynn
4.11
Format: 476 pages, ebook
Richard Lynn was born in 1930, the illegitimate son of geneticist Sydney Harland, and raised by his… read more
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