Signs of the Times
By: Thomas Carlyle
3.28
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1. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong
3.93
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic,… read more
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"Today nothing is more modern than the onslaught against the political. American financiers, industrial technicians, Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite in demanding tha…"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the …"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
2. The Concept of the Political
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more
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"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
3. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
4. Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
By: James Burnham
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Suicide of the An essay on the meaning and destiny of liberalism read more
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"Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature o…"-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
"...we may assert that liberalism believes man's nature to be not fixed but changing, with an unlimited or at any rate indefinitely large potential for positive (good, favorable, progressive) developm…"-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
5. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
By: Oswald Spengler
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
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6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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7. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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9. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
By: James Burnham
4.31
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, … read more
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"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are th…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Formally, a new election for an office many be held every year or two. But, in practice, the moere fact that an invidual has held the office in the past is thought by him and by the members to give h…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
10. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
11. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?"-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
12. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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13. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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14. The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
By: Oswald Spengler
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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15. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
16. ABC of Reading
By: Ezra Pound
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound's aesthetic theory. W… read more
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17. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
18. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
By: Christopher Caldwell
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms inte… read more
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19. Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson… read more
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"Adams drew from the War of 1812 the disconcerting conclusion that occasional wars are indispensable for the inculcation of civic virtue and hence long-term health of republican government. Adams to R…"-Dennis C. Rasmussen, Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
20. Signs of the Times
By: Thomas Carlyle
3.28
Format: None pages, None
"Υπερβαίνουμε όλες τις άλλες εποχές στη διαχείρηση των εξωτερικών πραγμάτων. Σε ότι αφορά όμως την … read more
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