Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
By: Leszek Kołakowski , P.S. Falla
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Want to ReadIf you liked the politics plot in Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders by Leszek Kołakowski, P.S. Falla , here is a list of 10 books like this:
1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization
By: Bryan Ward-Perkins
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Bryan Ward-Perkins's The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- nonfiction
- economics
- history
3. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
By: Isaac Deutscher
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Isaac Deutscher's The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921 book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
By: Leszek Kołakowski , P.S. Falla
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- history
- unfinished
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
5. The Closing of the American Mind
By: Allan Bloom
3.93
Format: 233 pages,
The Closing of the American Mind,a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in bell hooks's The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
7. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
8. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
9. The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
By: Mark Lilla
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and jurists who,… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
10. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
11. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By: Kenneth Pomeranz
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
12. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Karl Marx's Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
13. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- philosophy
- unfinished
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
14. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
(1939 translation) read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sophocles's The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3) book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
15. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
By: Perry Anderson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the mo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Perry Anderson's Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
16. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
Want to Read $ 14.76Similar categories in Serhii Plokhy's The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
18. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
By: Douglas Murray
4.21
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Douglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
19. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
20. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
By: Sean McMeekin
4.28
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian We remember World War I… read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War: A New History of World War II book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
21. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examin… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Francis Fukuyama's Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment book and Leszek Kołakowski's Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders
- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Who am I, really?"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"The focus on lived experience by identity groups valorizes inner selves experienced emotionally rather than examined rationally. Notes one observer, “Our political culture is marked, at the micro lev…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"Confusion over identity arises as a condition of living in the modern world. Modernization means constant change and disruption, and the opening up of choices that did not exist before. It is mobile,…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
"But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics o…"-Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
