21 best-selling nonfiction books like An Introduction to Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno

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An Introduction to Dialectics

By: Theodor W. Adorno

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialecti…

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1. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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2. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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3. For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

By: Louis Althusser

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought. This is the work in which Louis Alth… read more

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4. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

By: Ezra F. Vogel

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no sc… read more

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5. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more

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"But “nowhere"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"El ente existente “se"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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6. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • theory
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7. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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8. 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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9. The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750

By: Immanuel Wallerstein

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Modern World-System II: The Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-… read more

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10. Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

By: Herbert Marcuse

3.06

Format: 220 pages, paper

It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and … read more

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11. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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12. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more

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13. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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14. The German Ideology

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more

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15. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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16. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

By: Herbert Marcuse

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more

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17. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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18. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

19. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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20. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

By: Herbert Marcuse

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilizati… read more

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21. 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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22. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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23. The Communist Hypothesis

By: Alain Badiou

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately … read more

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24. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

25. The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

By: Immanuel Wallerstein , Edward Shorter , Charles Tilly

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

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26. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

By: Friedrich Engels

4.29

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more

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"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

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27. Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials for a Balance Sheet of the Twentieth Century

By: Endnotes Collective

3.85

Format: 261 pages, paperback

Endnotes is a new journal from some people who previously participated in the autonomist / ultra-le… read more

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28. An Introduction to Dialectics

By: Theodor W. Adorno

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialecti… read more

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29. Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

By: Leo Löwenthal

4.03

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

This book analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agita… read more

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30. Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital (Historical Materialism, 285)

By: Rebecca Carson

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

This book philosophically reconstructs Marx’s Capital from the perspective of reproduction to produ… read more

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31. Marx on Money

By: Suzanne de Brunhoff

3.56

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s classic investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “th… read more

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19 best-selling philosophy books like An Introduction to Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Transform Your Habits

For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

Louis Althusser

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger

4.05

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12 best-selling classics books like Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay

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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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