18 must-read philosophy books like Universality and Identity Politics by Todd McGowan

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Universality and Identity Politics

By: Todd McGowan

4.15

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal …

"The appeal to identity is capitalism’s secret sauce."

-Todd McGowan, Universality and Identity Politics

"The appeal to identity is capitalism’s secret sauce."

-Todd McGowan, Universality and Identity Politics

"The appeal to identity is capitalism’s secret sauce."

-Todd McGowan, Universality and Identity Politics

If you liked the philosophy plot in Universality and Identity Politics by Todd McGowan , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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2. The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within

By: Mari Ruti

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

The Singularity of Beingpresents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irrep… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
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3. How to Read Lacan

By: Slavoj Žižek , Simon Critchley

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The How to Readseries provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your un… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
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5. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

By: Sarah Bakewell

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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9. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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11. The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By: Christopher Hitchens

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobod… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

By: Slavoj Žižek

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Ticklish Subjectconfronts Deconstructionists and Habermasians, cognitive scientists and Heidegg… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

13. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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14. Principles: Life and Work

By: Jeremy Bobb , Ray Dalio

3.99

Format: None pages, Audio CD

#1 New York Times Bestseller "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." … read more

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15. Liberalism: A Counter-History

By: Domenico Losurdo , Gregory Elliott

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues… read more

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16. The Case for Falling in Love: Why We Can't Master the Madness of Love And Why That's the Best Part

By: Mari Ruti

3.93

Format: 300 pages,

Praise for "The Case for Falling in Love""" "Why play 'hard to get' when you can just get what you … read more

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17. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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18. 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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19. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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20. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance

By: Bruce Fink

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Aga… read more

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21. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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22. Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

By: Paul M. Buhle , Kate Evans

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Rosa tells the life story of philosopher, economist, publisher, writer, organizer, political leader… read more

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23. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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24. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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25. 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
"[...] 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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26. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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27. Heaven in Disorder

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: o… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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28. Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.93

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

By: Bryan Caplan

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this ex… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Once everyone can enrich their souls for free, government subsidies for enrichment forfeit their rationale. To object, 'But most people don't use the Internet for spiritual enrichment' is actually a …"

-Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

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30. Hegel in a Wired Brain

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.92

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek gives us a readi… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"In order to grasp how exploitation is overcome by sublimation, it is not enough to stay with this standard definition of sublimation as the elevation of an ordinary object to the dignity of a Thing. …"

-Slavoj Žižek, Hegel in a Wired Brain

"Raphael Samuel, a citizen of India, said he would sue his parents for giving birth to him … Samuel is telling people, especially Indian kids, that they don’t owe their parents anything; he also claim…"

-Slavoj Žižek, Hegel in a Wired Brain

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31. Universality and Identity Politics

By: Todd McGowan

4.15

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal … read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The appeal to identity is capitalism’s secret sauce."

-Todd McGowan, Universality and Identity Politics

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The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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Slavoj Žižek , Simon Critchley

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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3.95

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Michael Parenti

4.41

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4.28

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