14 Best philosophy books like Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, 'Just' War, and the State of Emergency by Alain de Benoist

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Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, 'Just' War, and the State of Emergency

By: Alain de Benoist

4.05

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Few names, apart from that of Leo Strauss, are invoked more often when discussing the American resp…

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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more

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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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2. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong

3.93

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Today nothing is more modern than the onslaught against the political. American financiers, industrial technicians, Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite in demanding tha…"

-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the …"

-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

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3. The Concept of the Political

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

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4. Fragments

By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more

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  • philosophy
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"All is flux"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Character is destiny"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"I went in search of myself."

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Man's character is his fate."

-James Hillman, Fragments

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5. The Ego and Its Own

By: Max Stirner , David Leopold

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more

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"Political liberty,"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"A minha causa é a causa de nada."

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

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6. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • philosophy
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"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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7. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • philosophy
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8. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

By: Oswald Spengler

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

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9. Imperium

By: Francis Parker Yockey , Ulick Varange

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

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10. Postscript on the Societies of Control

By: Gilles Deleuze

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

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11. 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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12. Jurnalul portughez

By: Mircea Eliade

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

,,Oricum as pune problema, nu pot trece peste acest lucru simplu, fundamental, imediat: ca sunt mur… read more

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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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14. The Crisis of the Modern World

By: René Guénon , None , None

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more

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15. Theory of the Partisan

By: Carl Schmitt , G.L. Ulmen

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

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16. 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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"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

17. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more

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18. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

19. Sophist

By: Plato , Nicholas P. White

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to spe… read more

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20. An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives

By: Mencius Moldbug , None

3.61

Format: 231 pages,

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21. A Theory of the Drone

By: Grégoire Chamayou

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congres… read more

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22. Considerations on France

By: Joseph de Maistre , None

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Although Maistre's influence within France was delayed until the Restoration, he is now acknowledge… read more

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23. Cratylus

By: Plato , C.D.C. Reeve

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It is. . . remarkable that Reeve's is the first new English translation since Fowler's Loeb editio… read more

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24. The Collapse of Complex Societies

By: None

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Twenty-four examples of societal collapse help develop a new theory to account for their breakdown.… read more

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25. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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26. Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power

By: René Guénon

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power is an analysis of cyclical manifestation, and more specifica… read more

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27. Twilight of the Idols

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more

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28. The Forest Passage

By: Ernst Jünger

4.08

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent think… read more

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"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-bei…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

"Still more important is the consideration that in many people today a strong need for religious ritual coexists with an aversion to churches. There is a sense of something missing in existence, which…"

-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

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29. Why I Am Not a Liberal - Imperium Press (Studies in Reaction)

By: Jonathan Bowden

3.83

Format: None pages, ebook

Bowden's oratorical firepower is on full display in this 2009 interview. Members of the London New-… read more

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30. Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, 'Just' War, and the State of Emergency

By: Alain de Benoist

4.05

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Few names, apart from that of Leo Strauss, are invoked more often when discussing the American resp… read more

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  • war
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31. The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History

By: Brooks Adams

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The Law of Civilization and An Essay on History is a philosophical work by American historian Broo… read more

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11 Best politics books like Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, 'Just' War, and the State of Emergency by Alain de Benoist

Transform Your Habits

Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Concept of the Political

George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Ego and Its Own

Max Stirner , David Leopold

4.06

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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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