9 Top philosophy books like Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn A. Magee

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Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition

By: Glenn A. Magee

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermet…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn A. Magee , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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  • philosophy
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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3. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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4. Human, All Too Human

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Ancient Mystery Cults

By: Walter Burkert

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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7. Parmenides

By: Plato , Keith Whitaker

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues be… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history

9. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

By: Herbert Marcuse

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more

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10. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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11. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

12. Metaphysics

By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more

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13. Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Classic Essay by Emerson. Excerpted from Essays, First Series. read more

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14. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more

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15. Greek Religion

By: John Raffan , Walter Burkert

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produ… read more

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16. Alcibiades

By: Plato

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Alcibiades was widely read in antiquity as the very best introduction to Plato. In spite of its… read more

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17. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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18. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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19. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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20. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Stavrakopoulou's God: An Anatomy book and Glenn A. Magee's Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

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21. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition

By: Glenn A. Magee

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermet… read more

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6 Best history books like Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn A. Magee

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The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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Ancient Mystery Cults

Walter Burkert

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

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Transform Your Habits

Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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White Noise

Don DeLillo

3.86

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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