10 Best politics books like Hegel’s World Revolutions by Richard Bourke

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Hegel’s World Revolutions

By: Richard Bourke

3.73

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A new account of the relevance of Hegel’s ideas for today’s world, countering the postwar anti-Hege…

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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
  • history
"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. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • politics
  • history
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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3. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Illuminations, 74)

By: Susan Buck-Morss

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, soc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
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4. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
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5. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong

By: J.L. Mackie

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral co… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • philosophy
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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7. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Marianne Cowan

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history

8. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

By: Walter Kaufmann

3.75

Format: 160 pages,

This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Wal… read more

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9. A Boring Story

By: Anton Chekhov

3.89

Format: 32 pages,

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10. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
"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

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11. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
"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

12. The Final Pagan Generation

By: Edward J. Watts

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Final Pagan Generationrecounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Roma… read more

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13. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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14. Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income (The Life of Ideas)

By: Anton Jäger

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government … read more

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  • politics
  • history
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15. The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy

By: Robert B. Pippin

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s f… read more

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  • philosophy
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16. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

By: Samuel Moyn

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis     “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
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17. Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion

By: Peter Heather

4.14

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In the 4th century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, an… read more

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  • history
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18. Hegel’s World Revolutions

By: Richard Bourke

3.73

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A new account of the relevance of Hegel’s ideas for today’s world, countering the postwar anti-Hege… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
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19. Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom

By: Klaus Vieweg

4.18

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a … read more

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  • philosophy
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20. Nietzsche: On Theognis of Megara (Political Philosophy Now)

By: Renato Cristi

4.50

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Nietzsche’s topic for his valedictorian dissertation at the school of Pforta was the poet Theognis,… read more

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  • philosophy
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21. Nietzsche's Great Politics

By: Hugo Drochon

3.62

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

"A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
"André Malraux is known to have said that if the European Union had to be constructed anew, then he would start with culture."

-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics

"See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last man (London: Penguin, 1993). Note the often-overlooked second part where Fukuyama criticizes the end of history as leading to the last man."

-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics

"There is no reason to believe that political agency must solely be located in the modern state, and Nietzsche does not hold such a view. He instead locates his political project in the transition awa…"

-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics

"Footnote 24 I can't help but hear an echo of Nietzsche's question of 'what type of man should be bred' in Weber's 1895 - the same year that The Antichrist was first published - inaugural lecture 'The…"

-Hugo Drochon, Nietzsche's Great Politics

12 Best history books like Hegel’s World Revolutions by Richard Bourke

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Illuminations, 74)

Susan Buck-Morss

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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

Transform Your Habits

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

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

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

4.10

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