The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (Wisconsin Project on American Writers)
By: Cornel West
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Taking Emerson as his starting point, West’s basic task in this enterprise is to chart the emergenc…
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1. I and Thou
By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
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"All real living is meeting."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
2. The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
By: R.D. Laing
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century's most influential psychiatrists that goes… read more
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- politics
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- sociology
"Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,"-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
"If the formation is itself off course, then the man who is really to get "on course" must leave the formation."-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
"If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know."-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man."-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
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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- philosophy
"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
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. 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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- sociology
"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
6. How to Do Things with Words
By: J.L. Austin
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lect… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. 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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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
8. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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10. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
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. The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
By: Peter Gay
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific met… read more
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13. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more
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14. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more
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15. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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16. We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
By: Paulo Freire , None
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century … read more
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17. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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18. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Hallward
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agen… read more
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19. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … 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. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
23. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
24. Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
By: R.R. Reno
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
With compelling insight, R. R. Reno argues that we are witnessing the return of the “strong gods”—t… read more
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25. The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
By: Judith Butler
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." – Cornel West“Ju… read more
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"Why is a petition for peace called a “violent"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"If the interdiction against killing rests on the presumption that all lives are valuable—that they bear value as lives, in their status as living beings—then the universality of the claim only holds …"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"[A]s we know from the increasingly urgent issue of climate change, the environment changes as a result of human intervention, bearing the effects of our own powers to destroy the conditions of livabi…"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"There is no way to name something as either violence or nonviolence without at once invoking the framework in which that designation makes sense. That may seem like a form of relativism—what you call…"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
26. The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World
By: Walter Rodney
4.42
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, … read more
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27. A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church
By: Lester Ruth
4.49
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (History & Biography) New forms of worship have transf… read more
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- history
28. The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (Wisconsin Project on American Writers)
By: Cornel West
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Taking Emerson as his starting point, West’s basic task in this enterprise is to chart the emergenc… read more
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- american history
- history
- the united states of america
- politics
- united states
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
- african american
- sociology
29. What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
By: O. Carter Snead
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of the Wall Street Journal's Top Ten Books of the Year A leading expert on public bioethics … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
30. The Enlightenment, Volume 2: The Science of Freedom
By: Peter Gay
4.08
Format: 705 pages, Paperback
The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation of the Enlightenment of the… read more
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31. Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy
By: Peter K.J. Park
4.06
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial pe… read more
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