14 best-selling philosophy books like Ex Captivitate Salus by Carl Schmitt

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Ex Captivitate Salus

By: Carl Schmitt

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Carl Schmitt (1888-1984), juriste et philosophe rhenan, fut d'abord le theoricien de la decision de…

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1. San Manuel Bueno, mártir

By: Miguel de Unamuno , Víctor García de la Concha

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

San Manuel Bueno, mártir, obra maestra de Miguel de Unamuno, es considerada como su testamento espi… read more

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  • philosophy
"—En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres..."

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"—La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora."

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"«Santa María, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte, amén». Y apenas lo había rezado cuando me dije: «¿pecadores?, ¿nosotros pecadores?, ¿y cuál es nuestr…"

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"¡Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido de la vida, a sumergirnos en el alma de la montaña, en el alma del lago, en el alma del pueblo de …"

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

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2. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
"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

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

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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3. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

By: Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Hardcover

Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absol… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
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4. Benito Cereno

By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more

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5. Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue

By: Heinrich Meier , Joseph Cropsey , J. Harvey Lomax

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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6. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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7. The Fourth Political Theory

By: Alexander Dugin , Александр Гельевич Дугин

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Fourth Political Theory is the first book by the famed Russian political theorist to appear in … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
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8. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • politics
  • history
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

9. No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil servi… read more

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Paul Hammond

10. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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  • philosophy
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

11. The Dark Enlightenment

By: Nick Land

4.14

Format: 560 pages,

http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/t... read more

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12. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

13. Guide to Kulchur

By: Ezra Pound

4.73

Format: None pages,

Prose work by Ezra Pound, published in 1938. A brilliant but fragmentary work, it consists of a ser… read more

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14. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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  • philosophy
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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15. 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

16. Gorgias

By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more

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17. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more

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18. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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19. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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20. Forbidden Colors

By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

From one of Japan's greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat … read more

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21. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

22. 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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23. La Numancia

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

El cerco de Numancia, tambien titulada La destruccion de Numancia, escenifica el tema patriotico de… read more

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24. The Invention of Solitude

By: Paul Auster

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), The Inv… read more

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25. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
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26. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

By: Legacy Russell

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more

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  • politics

27. The Straussian Moment

By: Peter Thiel

4.24

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir, author of the essay “The Straussian Moment,” describ… read more

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  • politics
"The twenty-first century started with a bang on September 11, 2001."

-Peter Thiel, The Straussian Moment

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28. Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Global Perspectives in History and Politics)

By: G.L. Ulmen

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The relationship between economic and political thinking has reached a crisis at the end of the 20t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
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29. Ex Captivitate Salus

By: Carl Schmitt

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Carl Schmitt (1888-1984), juriste et philosophe rhenan, fut d'abord le theoricien de la decision de… read more

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30. God-Shaped Hole

By: Zero HP Lovecraft

3.94

Format: None pages, ebook

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31. ABC of Economics

By: Ezra Pound

4.00

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Sono qui raccolti i principali scritti di Pound "economista" che presentano il corpus articolato di… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Fourth Political Theory

Alexander Dugin , Александр Гельевич Дугин

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Phenomenology of Spirit

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

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Transform Your Habits

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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Ethics

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

4.10

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