10 Top theory books like Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

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Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium

By: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

4.20

Format: 600 pages, Paperback

A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates wi…

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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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"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 Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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3. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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4. 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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"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

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

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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5. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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6. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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7. The Accursed Share 2-3: The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty

By: Georges Bataille , Robert Hurley

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utilit… read more

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8. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

By: Reza Negarestani

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samiz… read more

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9. 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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10. Nihil Unbound: Naturalism and Anti-Phenomenological Realism

By: Ray Brassier

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the "threat" of nihilism by safeguarding the … read more

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11. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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12. The Elements of Moral Philosophy

By: James Rachels , Stuart Rachels

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

Here is a clear, lively introduction to the major philosophical theories of morality, explaining wh… read more

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13. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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14. L'Abbé C

By: Georges Bataille , Philip A. Facey

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

Told in a series of first-person accounts, L'Abbe Cis a startling narrative about the intense and t… read more

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15. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

16. Duino Elegies

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more

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17. 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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18. 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

19. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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20. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different fro… read more

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21. Difference and Repetition

By: Gilles Deleuze

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Difference and Repetition, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be consi… read more

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22. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

23. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay , Victor Eremita

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

'What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?' Eith… read more

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24. A Confession

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.10

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more

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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

25. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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26. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications

By: David Deutsch

3.50

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most funda… read more

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27. 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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28. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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29. Mind and World

By: John McDowell

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the wo… read more

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30. Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium

By: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

4.20

Format: 600 pages, Paperback

A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates wi… read more

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31. Thinking and Being

By: Irad Kimhi

4.21

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Gree… read more

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19 must-read philosophy books like Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

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

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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12 best-selling classics books like Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay

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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

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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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