Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Global Perspectives in History and Politics)
By: G.L. Ulmen
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
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1. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
2. The Glass Bees
By: Louise Bogan , Bruce Sterling , Ernst Jünger , Elizabeth Mayer
3.69
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the … read more
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- philosophy
"Every master has the servant he deserves."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
"We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle."-Louise Bogan, The Glass Bees
3. 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
4. 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
5. Antony and Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more
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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"...make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
6. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
7. The New Gods
By: Emil M. Cioran
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dubbed “Nietzsche without his hammer” by literary critic James Wood, the Romanian philosopher E. M.… read more
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"His sterility was infinite: it partook of ecstasy."-Emil M. Cioran, The New Gods
"What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears."-Emil M. Cioran, The New Gods
"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."-Emil M. Cioran, The New Gods
"Psychoanalysis will be entirely discredited one of these days, no doubt about it. Which will not keep it from destroying our last vestiges of naivete. After psychoanalysis, we can never again be inno…"-Emil M. Cioran, The New Gods
8. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
9. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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10. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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- political science
"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
11. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
By: Oswald Spengler
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
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12. The Decay of the Angel
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, 'The Decay of the Angel' brings together the domina… read more
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13. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
14. Constitutional Theory
By: Carl Schmitt , Jeffrey Seitzer
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Carl Schmitt's magnum opus, Constitutional Theory, was originally published in 1928 and has been in… read more
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15. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
16. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more
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17. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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18. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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19. The Old Regime and the French Revolution
By: Stuart Gilbert , Alexis de Tocqueville , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution -- the so-called "Ancien Regime" -- a… read more
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20. On Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
3.97
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more
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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
21. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
22. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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23. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
24. Anéantir
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.84
Format: 734 pages, Hardcover
Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more
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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
25. 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
26. Bronze Age Mindset
By: Bronze Age Pervert
3.84
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more
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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
27. 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
28. Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Global Perspectives in History and Politics)
By: G.L. Ulmen
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The relationship between economic and political thinking has reached a crisis at the end of the 20t… read more
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29. The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol (Heritage of Sociology)
By: Carl Schmitt
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deep… read more
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30. All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
By: Kevin Vallier
3.67
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
A fresh assessment of Catholic integralism and other new and radical religious alternatives to libe… read more
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