10 Top philosophy books like The Democratic Paradox by Chantal Mouffe

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The Democratic Paradox

By: Chantal Mouffe

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the theory of “deliberative democracy” to the politics of the “third way,” the present Zeitgei…

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1. The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Alfred Birnbaum

3.83

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536 With the same deadpan mania and genius for disloca… read more

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"Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Sometimes when I think about entities—like in “separate entities"

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert."

-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

By: Richard Rorty

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

A major American philosopher asserts that it is literature, not philosophy, that promotes a genuine… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Hell is truth seen too late."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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5. On Populist Reason

By: Ernesto Laclau

3.43

Format: 344 pages,

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  • theory
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science

6. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
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7. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

By: Wendy Brown

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, educa… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics

By: Chantal Mouffe , Ernesto Laclau

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Since its original publication fifteen years ago, this hugely influential book has been at the cent… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science

9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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10. On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

3.97

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

11. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

By: Marvin Harris

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think.… read more

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12. Hatred of Democracy

By: Jacques Rancière , None

3.19

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jacques Ranciere was a student of Althusser before he famously turned against his mentor; now, he's… read more

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13. En defensa de la intolerancia

By: Slavoj Žižek , None , None

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Quizas haya llegado el momento de criticar esa actitud que domina nuestro mundo: el liberalismo tol… read more

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14. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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15. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

By: Andreas Malm

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more

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16. The Conquest of Happiness

By: Bertrand Russell , None

4.20

Format: None pages,

The books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible. - TIME "The Conquest of Happin… read more

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17. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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18. Teka-Teki Rumah Aneh

By: Uketsu

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Seorang kenalan ingin membeli rumah seken di Tokyo dan memperlihatkan denah rumahnya padaku karena … read more

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19. Changer : méthode

By: Édouard Louis

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more

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  • france
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20. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • society
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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21. The Democratic Paradox

By: Chantal Mouffe

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the theory of “deliberative democracy” to the politics of the “third way,” the present Zeitgei… read more

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3.95

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