10 best-selling history books like The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution by Mitchell Dean

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The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

By: Mitchell Dean

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Foucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal…

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1. Crash

By: J.G. Ballard

3.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more

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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

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2. Human, All Too Human

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. Chevengur

By: Andrei Platonov , Anthony Olcott

4.17

Format: None pages,

Chevenguris a massive series of satirical scenes from Soviet life during the New Economic Policy in… read more

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4. Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

6. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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7. Essays and Aphorisms

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , R.J. Hollingdale

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action… read more

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8. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more

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9. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

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10. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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11. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

12. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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13. Subculture: The Meaning of Style

By: Dick Hebdige

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the… read more

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14. 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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15. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more

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16. Richard Nixon: The Life

By: John A. Farrell

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the pa… read more

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17. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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18. French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States

By: Jeff Fort , François Cusset , Marlon Jones , None

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

"In such a difficult genre, full of traps and obstacles, French Theory is a success and a remarkabl… read more

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19. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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20. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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21. I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche

By: Sue Prideaux

4.31

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

By: Matteo Pasquinelli

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial fact… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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24. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

By: Safiya Umoja Noble

3.89

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"If Google isn’t responsible for its algorithm, then who is?"

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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25. White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

By: Andreas Malm

4.49

Format: None pages, ebook

Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet? In the fi… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

By: Catherine Liu

3.81

Format: 90 pages, ebook

Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and vir… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"In the United States, generations of allegedly neutral experts have hollowed out public goods, degraded the public sphere, facilitated the monetization of everything from health to aptitude, and inde…"

-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

"The novel predicted the triumphs of the post-1968 PMC: the moral rectitude of the virtuous lawyer and his high-spirited daughter renders the solution to racism attractive to the establishment—work on…"

-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

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27. The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Jacobin)

By: Adolph L. Reed Jr.

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A memoir and historical account of growing up in the Jim Crow South by a renowned political theoris… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Hölderlin's Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life 1806–1843

By: Giorgio Agamben

3.63

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of… read more

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  • philosophy
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29. The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

By: Mitchell Dean

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Foucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal… read more

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  • theory
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  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism by Justin Joque

30. Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism

By: Justin Joque

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The rise of AI and algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism Our finances, politics, media, op… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Anticipatory Corpse, The: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics) by Jeffrey P. Bishop

31. Anticipatory Corpse, The: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying (Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics)

By: Jeffrey P. Bishop

4.16

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, ar… read more

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  • nonfiction

11 Best politics books like The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution by Mitchell Dean

Transform Your Habits

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Transform Your Habits

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

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Raving

McKenzie Wark

3.81

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow

4.17

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