18 must-read philosophy books like Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning by Sigmund Freud

Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning

By: Sigmund Freud

3.43

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Cover of On Palestine by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé

1. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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2. Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being

By: Sabina Spielrein

4.13

Format: 32 pages,

This publication anticipated by eight years Freud’s conception of the death instinct. read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
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3. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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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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5. 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

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6. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

By: Martin Heidegger , None

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume are intriguing, challeng… read more

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7. Why Not Socialism?

By: G.A. Cohen

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading polit… read more

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8. Normative Ethics

By: Shelly Kagan

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Providing a thorough introduction to current philosophical views on morality, Normative Ethicsexami… read more

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9. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience

By: Jacques Lacan

4.25

Format: None pages,

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis

10. Exploring Humans: an Introduction to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

By: Herman de Regt , Hans Dooremalen , Maurice Schouten

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Exploring Humans is a complete overview of the most important currents in the philosophy of science… read more

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  • philosophy
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11. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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12. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell

3.37

Format: None pages,

Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more

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  • philosophy

13. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

3.86

Format: None pages,

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14. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

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15. 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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  • philosophy
"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

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16. The Tao of Pooh

By: Benjamin Hoff , Ernest H. Shepard

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Wisdom of Pooh. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and th… read more

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"I think, therefore I am... confused."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world"

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

17. When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia

By: Christopher Bollas

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medic… read more

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18. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction

By: Peter Singer

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual devel… read more

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19. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more

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20. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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21. The World of Perception

By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Thomas Baldwin , Oliver Davis , None

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

'Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own.' In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wr… read more

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22. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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23. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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24. 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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25. Ion

By: Plato

2.00

Format: 28 pages,

In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with Ion, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the… read more

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26. A Confession

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.10

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more

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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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27. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

Cover of Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici

28. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

By: Silvia Federici

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more

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"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

29. Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning

By: Sigmund Freud

3.43

Format: None pages, None

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
Cover of Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas by Jean Grondin

30. Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas

By: Jean Grondin

4.09

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Co… read more

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31. This Is Philosophy Of Mind

By: Pete Mandik

3.74

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the c… read more

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8 Top philosophy books like This Is Philosophy Of Mind by Pete Mandik

Transform Your Habits

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Man and His Symbols

C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

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Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

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