13 Best philosophy books like Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han

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Capitalism and the Death Drive

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.96

Format: 180 pages, ebook

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupti…

"Man bemächtigt sich des Todes, indem man tötet."

-Byung-Chul Han, Capitalism and the Death Drive

"Man bemächtigt sich des Todes, indem man tötet."

-Byung-Chul Han, Capitalism and the Death Drive

If you liked the philosophy plot in Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Threepenny Opera

By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more

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"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

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2. 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

Similar categories in Donald Nicholson-Smith's The Society of the Spectacle book and Byung-Chul Han's Capitalism and the Death Drive

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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3. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

Similar categories in Edward G. Seidensticker's In Praise of Shadows book and Byung-Chul Han's Capitalism and the Death Drive

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

By: Peter A. Levine , Gabor Maté

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

**Unraveling Trauma in the Body, Brain and Mind--a Revolution in Treatment** In this culmination of… read more

Similar categories in Peter A. Levine's In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness book and Byung-Chul Han's Capitalism and the Death Drive

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. Correction

By: Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness b… read more

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  • philosophy
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6. 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

Similar categories in Karl Marx's The German Ideology book and Byung-Chul Han's Capitalism and the Death Drive

  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology

7. Prohibido suicidarse en primavera

By: Alejandro Casona

4.03

Format: 606 pages,

Casona, critico siempre de los males de la sociedad civilizada -del mundo urbano- utiliza el tema d… read more

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8. Engel des Vergessens

By: Maja Haderlap

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

In the novel, which in 2011 won the 25,000 Euro prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize at the 35th Fes… read more

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9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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10. Playing and Reality

By: D.W. Winnicott , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living & of cultural experience in every sen… read more

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11. Sculpting in Time

By: Andrei Tarkovsky , Kitty Hunter-Blair

4.51

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most import… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The aim of art is to prepare a person for death"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

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12. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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13. Rhizom

By: Gilles Deleuze

4.28

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

„Ihr habt die Wahl zwischen einem letzten Abschied von der Psychoyse, einem rosa Panther, der Gesch… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea."

-Gilles Deleuze, Rhizom

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14. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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15. Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain

By: Daphna Joel

3.85

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explai… read more

Similar categories in Daphna Joel's Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain book and Byung-Chul Han's Capitalism and the Death Drive

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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16. Não pise no meu vazio

By: Ana Suy

3.69

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Os textos reunidos neste livro foram escritos ao longo de uns dez anos ou talvez mais. Em sua ma… read more

Similar categories in Ana Suy's Não pise no meu vazio book and Byung-Chul Han's Capitalism and the Death Drive

  • nonfiction
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17. Capitalism and the Death Drive

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.96

Format: 180 pages, ebook

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupti… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • politics
  • psychology
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"Man bemächtigt sich des Todes, indem man tötet."

-Byung-Chul Han, Capitalism and the Death Drive

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18. Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

By: Zygmunt Bauman

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. To… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"The updated version of Descartes’s Cogito is ‘I am seen, therefore I am’ – and that the more people who see me, the more I am…"

-Zygmunt Bauman, Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity

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19. El intruso

By: Jean-Luc Nancy

4.14

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

"El intruso no es otro que yo mismo y el hombre mismo. No otro que el mismo que no termina de alter… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. الشر السائل - Liquid Evil

By: Zygmunt Bauman

3.77

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

ليس هذا كتاباً في لاهوت الشر ولا في دراسة الشياطين، بل هو كتاب في سوسيولوجيا العمى الأخلاقي، وإن كان… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"La guerra oggi è pace, e la pace è guerra. Le belle e le brutte notizie durano poco, assumono quasi subito un significato ambiguo, perdono chiarezza: e anche se non ci sono guerre o altre calamità, l…"

-Zygmunt Bauman, الشر السائل - Liquid Evil

"Ricordo anche che nei tuoi scritti hai richiamato l’espressione lebensunwertes Leben – «vita che non merita di essere vissuta» – con cui i nazisti designavano quei gruppi di popolazione cui negavano …"

-Zygmunt Bauman, الشر السائل - Liquid Evil

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21. Die Durchquerung des Unmöglichen: Hoffnung in Zeiten der Klimakatastrophe (German Edition)

By: Corine Pelluchon

3.93

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Die ökologischen und politischen Katastrophen unserer Gegenwart erklären das Klima der Angst, in de… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

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Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

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Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Jason Hickel

4.51

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Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

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Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.00

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Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.17

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