5 Top philosophy books like La vita sensibile by Emanuele Coccia

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La vita sensibile

By: Emanuele Coccia

4.13

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

La sensibilità marca profondamente la nostra esistenza: piene di forme sensibili sono la vita diurn…

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1. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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2. L'Avversario

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris

3.99

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more

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"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

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3. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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4. Gentleman Overboard

By: Herbert Clyde Lewis

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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5. Beyond Nature and Culture

By: None , Philippe Descola

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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7. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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  • philosophy
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8. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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9. Il più grande uomo scimmia del Pleistocene

By: Terry Pratchett , Carlo Brera , Roy Lewis

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

<>ha scritto Terry Pratchett. E vero, tanto tempo e passato, da quando vissero Ernest, il narratore… read more

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10. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more

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11. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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12. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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13. 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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14. We Have Never Been Modern

By: Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever … read more

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15. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

16. 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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17. Amras

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

alternate-cover edition  >>Das Wesen der Krankheit ist so dunkel als das Wesen des Lebens.<< Diese… read more

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18. The Gods Themselves

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more

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19. Tiepolo Pink

By: Roberto Calasso

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions i… read more

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20. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

21. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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22. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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23. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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24. Grass

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more

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"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"

-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass

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25. El peligro de estar cuerda

By: Rosa Montero

4.13

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Partiendo de su experiencia personal y de la lectura de numerosos libros de psicología, neurocienci… read more

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"Y se llega a sufrir tanto que en algunos momentos hasta preferirías estar muerto, un perfecto ejemplo de razonamiento cortocircuitado: te espanta la muerte y para no sufrir ese espanto escogerías mor…"

-Rosa Montero, El peligro de estar cuerda

"Tengo un problema de falta de atención, lo cual, contra lo que muchos creen, no quiere decir que no puedas concentrarte, sino que te concentras tanto en algunos pensamientos que te olvidas de todo lo…"

-Rosa Montero, El peligro de estar cuerda

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26. Tentacle

By: Rita Indiana

3.58

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa … read more

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27. A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão

By: Ana Suy

4.10

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

Amor, solidão e psicanálise para os dias atuais. Podemos ler que o amor contém a solidão em seu… read more

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"Ao encontrar um amor, a gente não encontra a parte que nos faltava até então. A gente encontra a metade que fará falta a partir dali."

-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão

"Com frequência, pensamos que, no amor, encontraríamos a parte que supostamente nos falta, a parte que nos livraria da nossa própria falta, a parte que nos preencheria. No entanto, no amor, o que se e…"

-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão

"Vivemos um tempo em que queremos tudo para antes de ontem, em que vivemos o período de espera como crise de ansiedade. [...] sem fazer nascer intervalos, tudo que encontramos corre o risco de ser pur…"

-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão

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28. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

By: Elena Ferrante

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more

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"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

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29. Arcadie

By: Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam

3.42

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

La jeune Farah, qui pense être une fille, découvre qu’elle n’a pas tous les attributs attendus, et … read more

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30. La vita sensibile

By: Emanuele Coccia

4.13

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

La sensibilità marca profondamente la nostra esistenza: piene di forme sensibili sono la vita diurn… read more

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31. Sophie Calle

By: Sophie Calle

4.40

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Sophie Calle aime raconter des histoires: vraies, collectées sous forme d'enquêtes, dérobées lors d… read more

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9 Top nonfiction books like La vita sensibile by Emanuele Coccia

Transform Your Habits

King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

Transform Your Habits

L'Avversario

Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Nature and Culture

None , Philippe Descola

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Young Man

Annie Ernaux

3.61

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Transform Your Habits

Los surcos del azar

Paco Roca

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Grass

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

Transform Your Habits

El abismo del olvido

Paco Roca

4.81

Transform Your Habits

La compañera

Agustina Guerrero

4.53

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