5 Best philosophy books like Maurice Blanchot (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Ullrich Haase

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Maurice Blanchot (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

By: Ullrich Haase

3.66

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques …

If you liked the philosophy plot in Maurice Blanchot (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Ullrich Haase , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

1. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

2. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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Cover of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, John Seelye, Guy Cardwell

3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.92

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more

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"Tom!"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Company would be a palpable improvement"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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4. The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings

By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Joel Rotenberg

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard … read more

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Cover of Death Sentence by Lydia Davis, Maurice Blanchot

5. Death Sentence

By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one o… read more

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Cover of The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

6. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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7. Man's Fate

By: André Malraux , Haakon Chevalier

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, 'Man's Fate' ('La Con… read more

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8. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

9. Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo

By: Emmanuel Levinas , Richard A. Cohen

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel

10. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Cover of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones

11. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

12. Goethe: A Very Short Introduction

By: Ritchie Robertson

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... … read more

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13. A Strange Tale from East of the River and Other Stories

By: Kafū Nagai

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A collection of short stories set in Old Tokyo in the years before and after the Second World War. … read more

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14. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction

By: Christopher Butler

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it … read more

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15. Maurice Blanchot (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

By: Ullrich Haase

3.66

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques … read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

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Hilary Mantel

4.00

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A.S. Byatt , None

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