9 Top classics books like On Narcissism: An Introduction by Sigmund Freud

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On Narcissism: An Introduction

By: Sigmund Freud

3.71

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

"On Narcissism:: An Introduction" is an essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today…

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1. Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.22

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn … read more

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"Everyone prioritizes. Everyone wants new jackets and new shoes and new cars and new houses and new caravans and new mountain cabins and new boats. But I don't. I buy books and records because they sa…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"All the drinking reinforced my unease, and since nothing of what I did gave me anything back, I became more and more worn down, it was as though I was being drained, I became emptier and emptier, and…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"Why didn't they drink? Why didn't everyone drink? Alcohol makes everything big, it is a wind blowing through your consciousness, it is crashing waves and swaying forests, and the light it transmits g…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"[I]n music there is no meaning, there is no explanation, there are no people, only voices, each with its own special distinctive quality, as though this is its essential quality, its essence, unadult…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

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2. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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  • classics
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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3. Sociology and Philosophy

By: Émile Durkheim , D.F. Pocock

3.82

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Crito

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

5.00

Format: 160 pages, paper

Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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6. Phaedo

By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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7. The Immoralist

By: André Gide , David Watson , Alan Sheridan

3.55

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
"Existing is occupation enough."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"إنني اترك الماضي خلفي بعيدا كأنه عصفور يطير ويترك ظله."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Aynı zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olası değil."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

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8. The Death of the Author

By: Roland Barthes

4.00

Format: 126 pages,

"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

9. The Art of Always Being Right

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Which are the logical tricks that will let you slip through the net when faced with awkward questio… read more

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10. Sophist

By: Plato , Nicholas P. White

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to spe… read more

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11. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

12. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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13. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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14. Monadology

By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz , None

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

G.W. Leibniz' Monadology, one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of… read more

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15. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more

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16. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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17. On Women

By: Susan Sontag

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"

-Susan Sontag, On Women

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18. Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman

By: Aylin Balboa

4.18

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

“Öyle işte. Hâlâ biraz soğuk geliyor ama battıkça alışıyorum. Kendimi boşa aldım bayırdan aşağı ko… read more

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19. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

By: Laboria Cuboniks

3.63

Format: 20 pages, ebook

“Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist… Let a hundred sexes bloom! …[And, let’s] construct a society … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"If nature is unjust, change nature!"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, ne…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

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20. On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

By: Ethel Spector Person

4.07

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction of… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • classics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
",,The danger that arises to someone when a love object is “lost"

-Ethel Spector Person, On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

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21. On Narcissism: An Introduction

By: Sigmund Freud

3.71

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

"On Narcissism:: An Introduction" is an essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today… read more

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  • classics
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  • psychology
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  • nonfiction
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12 Best philosophy books like On Narcissism: An Introduction by Sigmund Freud

Transform Your Habits

Sociology and Philosophy

Émile Durkheim , D.F. Pocock

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Crito

Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Phaedo

Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

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16 Top philosophy books like The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes

Transform Your Habits

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

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

T.S. Eliot

3.84

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