9 best-selling philosophy books like What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology by Judith Butler

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What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: 146 pages, ebook

The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways hu…

"Triumphant utilitarianism is just another way of saying “let them die."

-Judith Butler, What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

"Triumphant utilitarianism is just another way of saying “let them die."

-Judith Butler, What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

If you liked the philosophy plot in What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology by Judith Butler , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. La carne

By: Rosa Montero

4.81

Format: 539 pages,

Vuelve Rosa Montero con La carne, una intriga emocional que nos habla del paso del tiempo, del mied… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Futility or the Wreck of the Titan

By: Morgan Robertson

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is a novel which was originally writtena nd published in 1898 b… read more

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3. The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

By: Ronald Hutton

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Sex and Lies

By: Leïla Slimani

3.96

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling aut… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Devenir une femme est un parcours semé d'humiliations. Face à la police, face à la justice comme dans l'espace public, être une femme est un inconvénient. Comme l'écrivait le romancier turc Livaneli …"

-Leïla Slimani, Sex and Lies

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7. Work-Life Balance

By: Aisha Franz

3.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A cutting portrayal of the pursuit of work-life balance from the cartoonist of Shit is Real To a… read more

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8. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. Napalm al cor

By: Pol Guasch

3.69

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

«De vegades penso que estic anotant el futur. Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les … read more

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"El sol gratina el terra". "Un vespre cítric"."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Des d'aleshores viure es va convertir en sobreviure, que és la pitjor forma d'estar viu."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les paraules. Algú, potser, les podrà entendre."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

"Quan la tristesa es cansa i desapareix, la tristesa és, aleshores, el temps. I el pare duia el temps a dins."

-Pol Guasch, Napalm al cor

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10. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

By: Kelly Weill

3.79

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism

By: Amelia Horgan

3.91

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"During the early stages of the Covid-19 lockdown, prominent newspaper columnists defended their right to have someone clean their homes, even at significant risk to their health, on dubiously feminis…"

-Amelia Horgan, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism

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13. Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.93

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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14. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy

By: Russell Muirhead

3.62

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy--and what can be done about it Conspiracy th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

By: Bill Gates

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under cont… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Stars Too Fondly

By: Emily Hamilton

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of g… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology by Judith Butler

18. What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: 146 pages, ebook

The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways hu… read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology book and Judith Butler's What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Triumphant utilitarianism is just another way of saying “let them die."

-Judith Butler, What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology

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19. Philosophy of Care

By: Boris Groys

3.28

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Retracing the philosophical discussions around care Our current culture is dominated by the ideo… read more

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  • philosophy
"Philosophy is the preparation for death - for leaving the cave of earthly, corporeal existence. And the preparation for death is a lonely and quiet activity - it is the activity of contemplation."

-Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care

"The internet is passive - it only reacts to our desires, our questions, our clicks. But the internet is not only a mirror but also a camera that produces an image of our desiring self. And the conten…"

-Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care

"The main hero of this culture is a criminal, a murderer. The crime story is the only contemporary narrative that is able to capture the collective imagination... The outlaw is truly sovereign and eve…"

-Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care

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20. Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)

By: Wendy Brown

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading―and confounding―politi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. Tsunami 3

By: Valeria Angola

4.44

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Escribo esto y el mundo arde. Los bosques, los mares, los territorios ocupados. Cuerpos inflamados … read more

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Rosa Montero

4.81

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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

Kelly Weill

3.79

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Amelia Horgan

3.91

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Mike Rothschild

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

Philip S. Gorski

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Talia Lavin

3.87

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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