10 must-read philosophy books like The Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman

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The Deleuze Connections

By: John Rajchman

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The first book to present Gilles Deleuze's philosophy in language the nonphilosopher can understand…

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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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  • nonfiction
"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. Nietzsche and Philosophy

By: Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and P… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence."

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

"The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest…"

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

"It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we a…"

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

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3. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

By: Jacques Rancière , Kristin Ross

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A material thing is first of all “the only bridge of communication between two minds."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

"To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

"Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

"It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

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4. The Idiot

By: Elif Batuman

3.66

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more

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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"

-Elif Batuman, The Idiot

Cover of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture by Slavoj Žižek

5. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements of Eastern Europe, provides a virt… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Dovid Bergelson

7. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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  • philosophy
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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8. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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9. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more

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  • philosophy

10. The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir

By: Louis Althusser , None , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

On November 16, 1980, Louis Althusser, while massaging his wife's neck, discovered that he had stra… read more

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11. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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12. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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14. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

By: Susan Buck-Morss

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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16. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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17. The World of Perception

By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Thomas Baldwin , Oliver Davis , None

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

'Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own.' In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wr… read more

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18. In Praise of Love

By: Alain Badiou , Peter Bush , Nicolas Truong

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Caught between consumerism and casua… read more

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19. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

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"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

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20. Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

3.62

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more

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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

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21. Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more

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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Cover of Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han

22. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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  • nonfiction
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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23. Destruction of Reason

By: György Lukács

3.85

Format: 865 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman

24. The Deleuze Connections

By: John Rajchman

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The first book to present Gilles Deleuze's philosophy in language the nonphilosopher can understand… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Nietzsche and Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

Jacques Rancière , Kristin Ross

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

Slavoj Žižek

3.50

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Disorientation

Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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