22 Top philosophy books like On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal) by Gilbert Simondon

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On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal)

By: Gilbert Simondon

4.27

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and theoretical practices in the age…

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1. The Politics of Aesthetics

By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
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2. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more

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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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3. 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

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4. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more

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"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"

-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

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5. Matter and Memory

By: Henri Bergson , None , None , N.M. Paul , W.S. Palmer

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

One of the major works of an important modern philosopher, Matter & Memory investigates the autonom… read more

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"The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory."

-Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

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6. The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

By: Mark McGurl

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In "The Program Era, " Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fictio… read more

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  • theory
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7. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • philosophy
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8. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

By: Gilles Deleuze , Robert Hurley

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, … read more

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9. The Philosophy of Simondon: Between technology and individuation

By: Graeme Kirkpatrick , Pascal Chabot , Aliza Krefetz

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

The last two decades have seen a massive increase in the scholarly interest in technology, and have… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
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10. 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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11. Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties

By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam , None

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. 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
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  • psychology
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13. On Revolution

By: Hannah Arendt

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

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. 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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"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

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16. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

17. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more

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18. Signature of All Things

By: Giorgio Agamben

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Signature of All Thingsis Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on metho… read more

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19. 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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20. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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21. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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22. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

By: Anna Kornbluh

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more

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23. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • technology
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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24. The Other Name: Septology I-II

By: Jon Fosse

4.06

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more

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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."

-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II

"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"

-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II

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25. Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

By: Dan Sinykin

3.96

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat wit… read more

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26. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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27. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal)

By: Gilbert Simondon

4.27

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and theoretical practices in the age… read more

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28. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

By: Bernard Stiegler

4.11

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings for… read more

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Cover of Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by John Guillory

29. Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

By: John Guillory

4.12

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession.   As the humanit… read more

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30. Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China

By: Xiao Liu

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award​ A groundbreaking, alternate history… read more

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Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill

3.92

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Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

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Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong

3.93

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4.06

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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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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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