Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.49
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian p…
Want to Read $ 12.00"This is a deeply Christian idea: when I feel alone, abandoned by God, at that point I am like Christ on the cross, in full solidarity with him."-Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
"This is a deeply Christian idea: when I feel alone, abandoned by God, at that point I am like Christ on the cross, in full solidarity with him."-Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
"This is a deeply Christian idea: when I feel alone, abandoned by God, at that point I am like Christ on the cross, in full solidarity with him."-Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
If you liked the politics plot in Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World by Slavoj Žižek , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. 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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- history
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- society
- sociology
"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
2. Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin i… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"A book holds words. Words hold things."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
"You learn to say goodbye to places, to keep them in your heart and go on. Over the hills and a great way off."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
"If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
3. The Myths We Live By
By: Mary Midgley
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Pochodzący z 2003 roku esej filozoficzny nieżyjącej brytyjskiej filozof, Mary Midgley (1919–2018) t… read more
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- history
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started."-Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By
"By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrea…"-Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By
"What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessar…"-Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By
"At present, when people become aware of this [common metaphorical] imagery, they tend to think of it as merely a surface dressing of isolated metaphors - as a kind of optional decorative paint that i…"-Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By
4. Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
By: James Rhodes
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has hel… read more
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- nonfiction
"I was used, fucked, broken, toyed with and violated from the age of six."-James Rhodes, Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
"Do not confuse kindness with weakness. Kindness is a dying art. It is the single most important quality in this world and one which is sorely lacking."-James Rhodes, Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
"Si pasas varias horas trabajando lenta y metódicamente, acabas interpretando las piezas de forma brillante y con una rapidez y seguridad mucho, mucho mayores que si te limitas a ensayar a lo bestia. …"-James Rhodes, Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
"La música ofrece compañía cuando no la hay, comprensión cuando reina el desconcierto, consuelo cuando se siente angustia, y una energía pura y sin contaminar cuando lo que queda es una cáscara vacía …"-James Rhodes, Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
5. 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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- history
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
6. 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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- history
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
7. The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
By: Jeremy Narby
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribunesaid might herald "a Copernican… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- science
8. German Philosophy 1760-1860 : The Legacy of Idealism
By: Terry P. Pinkard
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy dominated European philosophy, chan… read more
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9. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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11. Why Marx Was Right
By: Terry Eagleton
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism i… read more
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12. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
13. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
By: Peter Pomerantsev
4.04
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” acc… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
"З багатьох поглядів Ігорю пощастило. Він мав видимість вибору. Майор чітко дав зрозуміти, що він проведе сім років у в’язниці і п’ять на засланні у радянських загумінках, якщо залишиться. Якби він бу…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"The display, which was called 'Can Democracy Survive the Internet?' was dedicated to a 'global election management' company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Some of the farm's work reached a level of granularity that stunned Lyudmilla. Two trolls would go on the comments sections of small' provincial newspapers and start chatting about the street they li…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power: the Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counter-revolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones. But those conspiracies were …"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
14. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- economics
- sociology
15. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
16. 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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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- economics
- sociology
"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
17. Die Freiheit, frei zu sein
By: Hannah Arendt
3.76
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.« Was ist Freiheit, und was b… read more
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- history
- theory
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
18. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
By: Aaron Bastani
3.70
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- science
"We have a world to win"-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
19. The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
By: Judith Butler
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." – Cornel West“Ju… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
"Why is a petition for peace called a “violent"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"If the interdiction against killing rests on the presumption that all lives are valuable—that they bear value as lives, in their status as living beings—then the universality of the claim only holds …"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"[A]s we know from the increasingly urgent issue of climate change, the environment changes as a result of human intervention, bearing the effects of our own powers to destroy the conditions of livabi…"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"There is no way to name something as either violence or nonviolence without at once invoking the framework in which that designation makes sense. That may seem like a form of relativism—what you call…"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
20. Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.49
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian p… read more
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- history
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- society
- economics
- sociology
- science
"This is a deeply Christian idea: when I feel alone, abandoned by God, at that point I am like Christ on the cross, in full solidarity with him."-Slavoj Žižek, Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
21. Radical Belonging: How to Survive + Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)
By: Lindo Bacon
4.09
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
Too many of us feel alienated from our bodies. This isn't your personal failing; it means that our … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
