11 must-read philosophy books like Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality (Maresfield Library) by Sándor Ferenczi

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Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality (Maresfield Library)

By: Sándor Ferenczi

3.36

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In Thalassa,Ferenczi expands the symbols of pallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality (Maresfield Library) by Sándor Ferenczi , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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

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  • theory
  • philosophy
"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

Cover of Theological-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza, Seymour Feldman, Samuel Shirley

2. Theological-Political Treatise

By: Baruch Spinoza , Seymour Feldman , Samuel Shirley

4.08

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

D’abord paru sous le couvert de l’anonymat en 1670, le Traité théologico-politique fut rapidement a… read more

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  • philosophy
"The purpose of the state is really freedom."

-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

"لم يستطِعْ أحدٌ أن يستمرَّ في الحُكم طويلًا عن طريق العنف"

-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

"No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand."

-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

"لا يحدُث شيء يُناقِض الطبيعة، فالطبيعة تحتفِظ بنظامٍ أزلي لا يتغيَّر"

-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

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3. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • psychology
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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4. Storm of Steel

By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more

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5. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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6. The Idea of the Holy

By: Rudolf Otto , John Wilfred Harvey

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since the English translation first appeared in 1923, Rudolf Otto's volume has established itself a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
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7. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • philosophy
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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8. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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9. Gravity and Grace

By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more

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  • philosophy
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10. The Function of the Orgasm (Discovery of the Orgone #1)

By: Wilhelm Reich , Vincent R. Carfagno

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

This book describes Reich's medical and scientific work onthe living organism from his first effort… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology
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11. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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12. 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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13. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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  • philosophy
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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14. On the Abolition of All Political Parties

By: Czesław Miłosz , Simone Weil , Simon Leys

4.05

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who went to… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
"When water is set in motion by a violent, impetuous current, it ceases to reflect images. Its surface is no longer level; it can no more measure densities. Whether it is moved by a single current or …"

-Czesław Miłosz, On the Abolition of All Political Parties

15. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety

By: Sigmund Freud , None

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Setting forth in rich detail Freud's new theory of anxiety, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety(1926)… read more

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16. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • philosophy
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

17. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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18. The Roots of Romanticism

By: Isaiah Berlin , Henry Hardy

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

"The Roots of Romanticism" at last makes available in printed form Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated … read more

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19. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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20. Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

By: Norman O. Brown

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis. read more

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21. Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality (Maresfield Library)

By: Sándor Ferenczi

3.36

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In Thalassa,Ferenczi expands the symbols of pallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • biology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • hungary
  • gender and sexuality

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