15 must-read history books like Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta

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Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity

By: Kei Hiruta

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century’s most impo…

If you liked the history plot in Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Russian Thinkers

By: Isaiah Berlin , Henry Hardy , Aileen Kelly

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the Russi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour with predictions based on scientific exper…"

-Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers

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2. Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

By: David Edmonds , John Eidinow

3.78

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosoph… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

By: Thomas Nagel

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Mind and CosmosThomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

Similar categories in Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism book and Kei Hiruta's Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. The Proper Study of Mankind

By: Isaiah Berlin , Henry Hardy , Roger Hausheer , Noel Annan

3.50

Format: 824 pages,

read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

By: Hannah Arendt

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

3.97

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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10. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

11. Montaigne

By: Stefan Zweig

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

Auteur de nombreuses biographies (Fouche, Balzac, Marie-Antoinette, Magellan,... ), Stefan Zweig dr… read more

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12. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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13. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

By: Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenste… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

By: David Edmonds

4.07

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

By: Samuel Moyn

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis     “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity

By: Kei Hiruta

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century’s most impo… read more

Similar categories in Kei Hiruta's Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity book and Kei Hiruta's Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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21. Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection

By: Raymond Aron

4.12

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

Raymond Aron has won the respect and admiration of leading figures from all spheres of twentieth-ce… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"I did not deny the fact that there was a distinction between the right and the left in the National Assembly. What I denied was that there was an eternal left, the same in various historical circumst…"

-Raymond Aron, Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection

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4.28

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3.78

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David Graeber

3.61

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4.01

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Garry Wills

3.95

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Corey Robin

4.27

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Thomas S. Kuhn

4.09

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