To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
By: Jacob Taubes
3.92
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspon…
Want to Read $ 24.70"The first few lines of the third chapter run as follows: All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development—in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver—but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The state of exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology. Only by being aware of this analogy can we appreciate the manner in which the philosophical idea of the state developed over the last few centuries. I had quickly come to see Carl Schmitt as an incarnation of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor. During a stormy conversation at Plettenberg in 1980, Carl Schmitt told me that anyone who failed to see that the Grand Inquisitor was right about the sentimentality of Jesuitical piety had grasped neither what a Church was for, nor what Dostoevsky—contrary to his own conviction—had “really conveyed, compelled by the sheer force of the way in which he posed the problem."-Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
"The first few lines of the third chapter run as follows: All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development—in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver—but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The state of exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology. Only by being aware of this analogy can we appreciate the manner in which the philosophical idea of the state developed over the last few centuries. I had quickly come to see Carl Schmitt as an incarnation of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor. During a stormy conversation at Plettenberg in 1980, Carl Schmitt told me that anyone who failed to see that the Grand Inquisitor was right about the sentimentality of Jesuitical piety had grasped neither what a Church was for, nor what Dostoevsky—contrary to his own conviction—had “really conveyed, compelled by the sheer force of the way in which he posed the problem."-Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
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1. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong
3.93
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic,… read more
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"Today nothing is more modern than the onslaught against the political. American financiers, industrial technicians, Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite in demanding tha…"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the …"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
2. The Concept of the Political
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more
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"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
3. The Lesson of Carl Schmitt: Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy
By: Heinrich Meier , None
3.75
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
This book is the culmination of Heinrich Meier's acclaimed analyses of the controversial thought of… read more
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4. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more
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"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
6. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
7. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
8. Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
By: Carl Schmitt , Thomas A. McCarthy , None
3.86
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of represe… read more
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"Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises e…"-Carl Schmitt, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
9. The 120 Days of Sodom
By: Marquis de Sade
3.08
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostl… read more
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"The lecher swears, the come flows and supper sounds."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
"Adélaïde was the sketch rather than the model of beauty..."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
"Nothing is as encouraging as a first crime that goes unpunished."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
"I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
10. Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue
By: Heinrich Meier , Joseph Cropsey , J. Harvey Lomax
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth … read more
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11. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
12. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more
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13. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
By: Jacques Lacan
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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14. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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15. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None
3.71
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more
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16. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
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17. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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18. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
19. What IS Sex?
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.25
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual s… read more
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"It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries c…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, no…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningsless, n…"-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?
20. On the Critique of Violence
By: Walter Benjamin
4.00
Format: 28 pages, None
"Dieser Band vereinigt fünf Texte, die in einem inneren Zusammenhang stehen; sie zeigen die Entwick… read more
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21. Radikalisierter Konservatismus: Eine Analyse
By: Natascha Strobl
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Von der Krise der Sozialdemokratie ist allerorten die Rede. Doch auch viele traditionsreiche Mitte-… read more
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22. Triggerpunkte: Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft
By: Steffen Mau
4.31
Format: 540 pages, Paperback
Von einer »Spaltung der Gesellschaft« ist immer häufiger die Rede. Auch in der Alltagswahrnehmung v… read more
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23. The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany
By: Siegfried Kracauer
3.91
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer’s work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained… read more
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"Es gibt eine Menge phantastischer E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Figuren unter den Angestellten vorgerückteren Alters. Irgendwo sind sie steckengeblieben und erfüllen seitdem ununterbrochen banale Funktionen, die a…"-Siegfried Kracauer, The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany
24. To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
By: Jacob Taubes
3.92
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
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"The first few lines of the third chapter run as follows: All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical developme…"-Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
25. What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents
By: Nina Power
3.19
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed philosopher and author of One-Dimensional Woman, a bold, playful and open-minded… read more
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26. Demokratiedämmerung
By: Veith Selk
4.04
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
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27. El capital I
By: Karl Marx
4.30
Format: 841 pages, Kindle Edition
Este libro ha sido convertido a formato digital por una comunidad de voluntarios. Puedes encontrarl… read more
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28. (Ent-)Demokratisierung der Demokratie
By: Philip Manow
3.89
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Demokratie gegen Demokratie – illiberale gegen liberale, direkte gegen repräsentative Demokratie, v… read more
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29. Schule des Südens: Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen Theorie
By: Onur Erdur
3.72
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
In seiner Ideengeschichte in acht Porträts erschließt Onur Erdur eine neue Geografie des französisc… read more
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30. Die dunkle Seite der Christdemokratie: Geschichte einer autoritären Versuchung
By: Fabio Wolkenstein
3.83
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In Ungarn wickelt Viktor Orbáns Fidesz-Partei gerade die Demokratie ab und beruft sich dabei besond… read more
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31. Verfluchte Neuzeit: Eine Geschichte des reaktionären Denkens
By: Karl-Heinz Ott
3.67
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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