7 must-read theory books like The Birth of Fascist Ideology by Zeev Sternhell

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The Birth of Fascist Ideology

By: Zeev Sternhell

4.12

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

When The Birth of Fascist Ideology was first published in 1989 in France and in 1993 in Italy, it a…

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1. Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

By: Michael Parenti

4.53

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Taking a critical perspective on the economics and politics of "presenting" the news, this topical … read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Power is always more secure when cooptive, covert, and manipulative than when nakedly brutish. The support elicited through the control of minds is more durable than the support extracted at the poin…"

-Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

"The basic distortions in the media are not innocent errors, for they are not random; rather they move in the same overall direction again and again, favoring management over labor, corporatism over a…"

-Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

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2. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.28

Format: 627 pages, Paperback

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"

-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

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3. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Peter Preuss

3.95

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

(Part II of Thoughts Out of Season) "Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me withou… read more

Similar categories in Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life book and Zeev Sternhell's The Birth of Fascist Ideology

  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Every past is worth condemning."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

"A thing can only live through a pious illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

"... a thing can only live through a pious illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

"Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

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4. Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes

4.26

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more

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"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

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5. 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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6. The Revolution of Everyday Life

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Raoul Vaneigem

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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  • france
"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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8. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • philosophy
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

9. Science of Logic

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Most of the major schools of contemporary philosophy, from Marxism to Existentialism, are reactions… read more

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10. 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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11. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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12. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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  • philosophy
"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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15. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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16. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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17. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.39

Format: 353 pages, ebook

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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18. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

By: Thomas C. Leonard

4.11

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In "Illiberal Reformers," Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and refor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Birth of Fascist Ideology

By: Zeev Sternhell

4.12

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

When The Birth of Fascist Ideology was first published in 1989 in France and in 1993 in Italy, it a… read more

Similar categories in Zeev Sternhell's The Birth of Fascist Ideology book and Zeev Sternhell's The Birth of Fascist Ideology

  • italy
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • antisemitism
  • political science
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20. Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism

By: Stanley G. Payne

3.74

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A study of Spanish politics, General Franco, and the Spanish Fascist Party from 1933 to 1959. read more

Similar categories in Stanley G. Payne's Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism book and Zeev Sternhell's The Birth of Fascist Ideology

  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period

By: Amit Bein

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

To better understand the lasting legacy of international relations in the post-Ottoman Middle East,… read more

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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

Michael Parenti

4.53

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Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.28

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On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Friedrich Nietzsche , Peter Preuss

3.95

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Stuart A. Reid

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