19 must-read nonfiction books like Ästhetischer Kapitalismus by Gernot Böhme

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Ästhetischer Kapitalismus

By: Gernot Böhme

3.37

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Aesthetic Economy is a theory of the recent development of capitalism in our national economies. Ba…

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1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. State of Exception

By: Giorgio Agamben , Kevin Attell

4.03

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to… read more

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"إن «الديمقراطية الخاضعة للحماية» ليست ديمقراطية على الإطلاق"

-Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception

"لِمَ الصَّمْتُ أَيُّهَا الفُقَهَاءِ حِيَالَ قَضَايَا تَهُمُّكُمْ !؟"

-Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception

"As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute and the Weimar Constitution, respectively) to subsist, an…"

-Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception

"مكن تعريف الشمولية الحديثة بأنها: "عملية تأسيسِ حربٍ أهلية قانونية من خلال تطبيق «حالة الاستثناء»"، بما يُتِيحُ التصفية الجسدية ليس فقط للخصوم السياسيين، بل لشرائح كاملة من المواطنين تعتبرهم السلطة، لسببٍ …"

-Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception

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3. The Hothouse

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

3.47

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Grieving over the death of his wife and disillusioned by the political corruption that surrounds hi… read more

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"Knurrewahn hatte viel durchgemacht; aber er war nicht weise geworden."

-Wolfgang Koeppen, The Hothouse

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4. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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5. Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt: Elemente materialistischer Philosophie

By: Robert Pfaller

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

Unsere Kultur hat sich den Zugang zu Glamour, Grosszugigkeit und Genuss versperrt. Wir vermeintlich… read more

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6. Strangers at Our Door

By: Zygmunt Bauman

4.21

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people… read more

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7. Planet Magnon

By: Leif Randt

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Ein kuhner, kunstvoller Gegenwartsroman aus einem anderen Sonnensystem In den unendlichen Weiten de… read more

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8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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9. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more

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10. The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

By: Bertolt Brecht , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.23

Format: 304 pages,

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (German: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a politic… read more

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11. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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12. 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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13. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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14. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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15. Women Don't Owe You Pretty

By: Florence Given

3.72

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY will tell you to...love sex, hate sexism,protect your goddamn energy,lif… read more

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"Promise yourself to stop buying into people’s potential. You’re not a start-up investor."

-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

"Imagine all of the past versions of yourself, standing right in front of you. They are all smiling, looking back at you. They are so proud of you."

-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

"Up until now we have been bombarded with the same stories that either make us subconsciously hate ourselves or hate others. It’s time to change the narrative, and the power lies in your hands. Consum…"

-Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

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16. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more

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17. Luster

By: Raven Leilani

3.52

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more

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"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"

-Raven Leilani, Luster

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18. Rhizom

By: Gilles Deleuze

4.28

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

„Ihr habt die Wahl zwischen einem letzten Abschied von der Psychoyse, einem rosa Panther, der Gesch… read more

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"Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea."

-Gilles Deleuze, Rhizom

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19. Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum

By: Fatma Aydemir

4.52

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

»Das sind die Stimmen, die wir hören müssen. Damit es in diesem Land nicht noch finsterer wird.« Ma… read more

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20. Radikalisierter Konservatismus: Eine Analyse

By: Natascha Strobl

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Von der Krise der Sozialdemokratie ist allerorten die Rede. Doch auch viele traditionsreiche Mitte-… read more

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21. After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis

By: Bruno Latour

3.52

Format: 180 pages, ebook

El testamento literario de Bruno Latour (1947-2022), referente mundial del pensamiento ecologista c… read more

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22. #IchBinHanna - Prekäre Wissenschaft in Deutschland

By: Amrei Bahr

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Seit 2007 prekarisiert das Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz Arbeitsbedingungen und Berufsaussichten … read more

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23. For a Left Populism

By: Chantal Mouffe

3.58

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Wes… read more

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24. Prometheus's Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

By: Peter Sloterdijk

3.24

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022. From time immemorial, hu… read more

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25. Capitalism and the Death Drive

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.96

Format: 180 pages, ebook

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupti… read more

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"Man bemächtigt sich des Todes, indem man tötet."

-Byung-Chul Han, Capitalism and the Death Drive

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26. Superyachten: Luxus und Stille im Kapitalozän

By: Grégory Salle

3.88

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Abramowitsch hat eine, der Emir von Abu Dhabi auch, Jeff Bezos sowieso: Superyachten sind Ausweis d… read more

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27. Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1: Über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution

By: Günther Anders

4.31

Format: 353 pages, None

In questo libro pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1956 Günther Anders muove dalla diagnosi della «v… read more

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28. The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany

By: Siegfried Kracauer

3.91

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer’s work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained… read more

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"Es gibt eine Menge phantastischer E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Figuren unter den Angestellten vorgerückteren Alters. Irgendwo sind sie steckengeblieben und erfüllen seitdem ununterbrochen banale Funktionen, die a…"

-Siegfried Kracauer, The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany

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29. The Aesthetics of Disappearance

By: Paul Virilio

3.86

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his th… read more

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30. Ästhetischer Kapitalismus

By: Gernot Böhme

3.37

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Aesthetic Economy is a theory of the recent development of capitalism in our national economies. Ba… read more

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31. Trophäe

By: Gaea Schoeters

4.11

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Gaea Schoetersʼ preisgekrönter Roman ist von einer außerordentlichen erzählerischen Wucht. Die Tief… read more

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Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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On Populist Reason

Ernesto Laclau

3.43

Transform Your Habits

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Michael Newman

3.93

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3.47

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