15 best-selling philosophy books like A History of Medieval Philosophy by Frederick Charles Copleston

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A History of Medieval Philosophy

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

3.87

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

In this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical refle…

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1. 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
  • religion
  • history
"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

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. Ideas Have Consequences

By: Richard M. Weaver

4.13

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The typical modern has the look of the hunted."

-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

"No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future."

-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

"[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives."

-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

"The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason."

-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

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3. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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5. 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
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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6. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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8. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

9. Complete Works

By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Jonathan Barnes , Anthony Kenny , None , Stanley Lombardo , Paul Woodruff , Brad Inwood , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper , C.D.C. Reeve , Alexander Nehamas , Nicholas P. White , Donald J. Zeyl , David Gallop , Nicholas D. Smith , D.S. Hutchinson , None , Rosamond Kent Sprague , Karen Bell , None , Diskin Clay , None , None , None , None , None , None , Mary Louise Gill , None , None , None , None , None , Paul Ryan

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The First World War

By: John Keegan

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

11. The Spirit of the Liturgy

By: Pope Benedict XVI , Jon Saward , Joseph Ratzinger

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction

12. The Prose Edda

By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more

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  • medieval
  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. A History of Western Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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14. The Double

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.68

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more

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  • philosophy
"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

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15. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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16. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

17. Kant

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giant… read more

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18. Moderato cantabile

By: Marguerite Duras

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated b… read more

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19. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

20. The Fathers

By: Pope Benedict XVI

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Pope Benedict XVI carefully explains the stories of early Church fathers, their rich history, and t… read more

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21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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22. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

23. Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more

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24. The Art of Rhetoric

By: Aristotle , Hugh Lawson-Tancred

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Few, if any, writers in history have made major contributions to as many fields of knowledge as Ari… read more

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25. Che cosa ha detto Nietzsche

By: Mazzino Montinari , Giuliano Campioni

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Con Nietzsche avviene questo: qualsiasi affermazione leggiamo su di lui ci spinge subito al dubbio.… read more

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26. La Dame aux Camélias

By: Alexandre Dumas fils , David Coward

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dum… read more

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"Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"La vida es maravillosa, querido. Depende del color del cristal con que se mira"

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

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27. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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28. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. The History of Philosophy

By: A.C. Grayling

4.08

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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30. Nietzsche

By: Gilles Deleuze

3.97

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Filósofo umas vezes enaltecido e outras tantas amaldiçoado, Nietzsche é um pensador a redescobrir. … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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31. A History of Medieval Philosophy

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

3.87

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

In this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical refle… read more

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • medieval

11 best-selling history books like A History of Medieval Philosophy by Frederick Charles Copleston

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Ideas Have Consequences

Richard M. Weaver

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

Complete Works

Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Jonathan Barnes , Anthony Kenny , None , Stanley Lombardo , Paul Woodruff , Brad Inwood , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper , C.D.C. Reeve , Alexander Nehamas , Nicholas P. White , Donald J. Zeyl , David Gallop , Nicholas D. Smith , D.S. Hutchinson , None , Rosamond Kent Sprague , Karen Bell , None , Diskin Clay , None , None , None , None , None , None , Mary Louise Gill , None , None , None , None , None , Paul Ryan

3.86

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8 Top history books like The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock

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The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

Jackson Crawford , Jackson Crawford

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Poetic Edda

Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Egil's Saga

Anonymous , Bernard Scudder , Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir , Egill Skallagrímsson

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok

Ben Waggoner

3.26

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