8 must-read philosophy books like La moda by Georg Simmel

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La moda

By: Georg Simmel

3.71

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"La moda è uno degli scritti più belli di Georg Simmel, forse il suo capolavoro, perché all'interno…

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1. L'Écume des jours

By: Boris Vian

3.93

Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellingt… read more

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"Per me, ciccino mio"

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir."

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Те се умълчаха за миг. Една кана използва настъпилата тишина, за да издаде сребрист звук, който отекна о стените."

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Le ciel bleu-vert pendait presque jusqu'au pavé et de grandes taches blanches marquaient sur le sol la place où des nuages venaient de se fracasser. (p. 220)"

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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3. San Manuel Bueno, mártir

By: Miguel de Unamuno , Víctor García de la Concha

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

San Manuel Bueno, mártir, obra maestra de Miguel de Unamuno, es considerada como su testamento espi… read more

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  • philosophy
"—En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres..."

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"—La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora."

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"«Santa María, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte, amén». Y apenas lo había rezado cuando me dije: «¿pecadores?, ¿nosotros pecadores?, ¿y cuál es nuestr…"

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"¡Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido de la vida, a sumergirnos en el alma de la montaña, en el alma del lago, en el alma del pueblo de …"

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

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4. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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5. Principles of Philosophy

By: René Descartes , John Veitch , Paul Hoyt-O'Connor

3.65

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Rene Descartes is perhaps most remembered for declaring, I think; therefore, I am. First published … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

7. Van Gogh: Il suicidato della società

By: Antonin Artaud , Ena Marchi , Paul Thévenin , Camille Dumoulié , None

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

<>, la societa suicido van Gogh. Non fu dunque il pittore a soccombere a un suo delirio, ma un deli… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

By: Monique Wittig

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Shadow-Line

By: Joseph Conrad , Jeremy Hawthorn

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Lineis based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlie… read more

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10. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more

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11. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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12. La luna e i falò

By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more

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13. Le menzogne della notte

By: Nunzio Zago , Gesualdo Bufalino

3.62

Format: 192 pages,

In un'isola penitenziaria, probabilmente mediterranea e borbonica, fra equivoche confessioni e ango… read more

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14. Incendies

By: Wajdi Mouawad

4.37

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Lorsque le notaire Lebel fait aux jumeaux Jeanne et Simon Marwan la lecture du testament de leur mè… read more

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"L'enfance est un couteau planté dans la gorge."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Maintenant que nous sommes ensemble, ça va mieux."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Ce n'est jamais bon signe lorsque la jeunesse s'enfuit."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Every balle que je mets dans le fusil, Is like a poème. And I shoot a poème to the people and it is the précision of my poème qui tue les gens"

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

15. Un tal Lucas

By: Julio Cortázar

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Un tal Lucas no es un libro de cuentos, ni es una novela, ni es una obra miscelanea. Es un libro de… read more

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16. Sweeney Todd; or, The String of Pearls

By: Anonymous , James Malcolm Rymer , Thomas Peckett Prest , Dick Collins

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A distraught Johanna Oakley wanders the streets of London seeking news of the missing fiance, Mark … read more

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17. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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18. 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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19. Les Liaisons dangereuses

By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more

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"J'ai vécu"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

20. La felicidad conyugal

By: Leo Tolstoy , Selma Ancira

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

En esta bellisima historia, Tolstoi nos habla del amor y del matrimonio a traves de la historia de … read more

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21. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

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22. I miei stupidi intenti

By: Bernardo Zannoni

3.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more

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23. I baffi

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.73

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more

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24. Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. La moda justa: Una invitación a vestir con ética

By: Marta D. Riezu

3.97

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Una reflexión sobre nuestras elecciones a la hora de vestir. Una propuesta consciente e imaginativa… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
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26. Io, te e il mare

By: Marzia Sicignano

3.60

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

Ti sei mai sentito solo al mondo? Ti sei mai sentito senza un senso, diviso a metà, come se ti manc… read more

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27. Fashion - A Philosophy

By: Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen

3.88

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether we’re bu… read more

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  • fashion
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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28. La moda

By: Georg Simmel

3.71

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"La moda è uno degli scritti più belli di Georg Simmel, forse il suo capolavoro, perché all'interno… read more

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  • fashion
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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29. The Sirens

By: Emilia Hart

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can ima… read more

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30. Moda. Dalla nascita della haute couture a oggi

By: Sofia Gnoli

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Dall'egemonia francese della seconda metà dell'Ottocento a oggi, questo volume ripercorre la storia… read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction

11 Best nonfiction books like La moda by Georg Simmel

Transform Your Habits

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Principles of Philosophy

René Descartes , John Veitch , Paul Hoyt-O'Connor

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Van Gogh: Il suicidato della società

Antonin Artaud , Ena Marchi , Paul Thévenin , Camille Dumoulié , None

3.64

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Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Princesse de Clèves

Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Don Juan

Molière , Richard Wilbur

3.56

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