11 must-read philosophy books like General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition) by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Cover of General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition) by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)

By: Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

3.88

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Gathered here are Ludwig von Bertalanffy's writings on general systems theory, selected and edited …

If you liked the philosophy plot in General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition) by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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)

Cover of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

2. 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
  • nonfiction
"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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3. The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature

By: Ilya Prigogine

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scienti… read more

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  • philosophy
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Complexity: A Guided Tour

By: Melanie Mitchell , Melanie Mitchell

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a grou… read more

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  • biology
  • mathematics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. 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
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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6. An Introduction to Cybernetics

By: William Ross Ashby

5.00

Format: None pages,

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  • technology
  • mathematics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

8. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • philosophy
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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9. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

By: Daniel Goleman

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Emotional Intelligencewas an international phenomenon, appearing on theNew York Timesbestseller lis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science

10. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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12. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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13. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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14. Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more

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15. The Hamlet

By: William Faulkner

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical trage… read more

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16. Difference and Repetition

By: Gilles Deleuze

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Difference and Repetition, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be consi… read more

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17. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On The Matter Of The Mind

By: Gerald M. Edelman

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

We are on the verge of a revolution in neuroscience as significant as the Galilean revolution in ph… read more

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18. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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19. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • technology
"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

Cover of Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Thomas Parr

20. Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

By: Thomas Parr

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cogniti… read more

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  • philosophy
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition) by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

21. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)

By: Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

3.88

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Gathered here are Ludwig von Bertalanffy's writings on general systems theory, selected and edited … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • economics
  • sociology
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12 Top nonfiction books like General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition) by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Transform Your Habits

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

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature

Ilya Prigogine

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell , Melanie Mitchell

0.00

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10 must-read philosophy books like Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Thomas Parr

Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

Daniel C. Dennett

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

None

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth

4.10

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