The Hedonistic Imperative
By: David Pearce
4.18
Format: 200 pages, ebook
The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish sufferin…
Want to Read"I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences."-David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative
"I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences."-David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative
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1. Famine, Affluence, and Morality
By: Peter Singer
4.11
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapid… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- society
2. L'Écume des jours
By: Boris Vian
3.93
Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellingt… read more
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"Per me, ciccino mio"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Те се умълчаха за миг. Една кана използва настъпилата тишина, за да издаде сребрист звук, който отекна о стените."-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
"Le ciel bleu-vert pendait presque jusqu'au pavé et de grandes taches blanches marquaient sur le sol la place où des nuages venaient de se fracasser. (p. 220)"-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours
3. Les Chants de Maldoror
By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham
4.15
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more
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"...the police, that shield of civilization..."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
4. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
5. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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6. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- essays
7. Utilitarianism
By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
8. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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9. The Death of the Author
By: Roland Barthes
4.00
Format: 126 pages,
"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
10. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
11. Lying
By: Sam Harris
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vic… read more
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12. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more
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13. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- philosophy
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
14. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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15. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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16. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- biology
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
17. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
18. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
19. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
By: David A. Sinclair
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taugh… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
20. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- science
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
21. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- nonfiction
- technology
22. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
By: Michael Pollan
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
23. Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
By: Peter Singer
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influ… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
- science
24. What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
By: Minouche Shafik
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better suppo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
25. Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe
By: Tobias Baumann
4.42
Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition
How can we avoid worst-case scenarios? From Nineteen Eighty-Four to Black Mirror, we are all fam… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
26. The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World
By: Peter Singer
3.79
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist m… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
27. The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us
By: Adam Kirsch
4.11
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Should we welcome the end of humanity? In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one… read more
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- philosophy
- science
- nonfiction
- technology
28. The Hedonistic Imperative
By: David Pearce
4.18
Format: 200 pages, ebook
The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish sufferin… read more
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- science
- futurism
- biology
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- essays
- society
- technology
"I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today'…"-David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative
29. Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It
By: Magnus Vinding
3.79
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What can justify discrimination against other sentient beings? In this book, Magnus Vinding expl… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"No group of humans has ever been held in as low regard or exploited on anything close to the same level as non-human beings have been throughout history and still are today. No group of humans has ev…"-Magnus Vinding, Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It
30. In Defense of Nuance
By: Magnus Vinding
4.41
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
We appear to find ourselves in a crisis of polarization and failed communication. What can we do ab… read more
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- philosophy
31. The Methods of Ethics, 7th Edition (Hackett Classics)
By: Henry Sidgwick
4.00
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the … read more
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- nonfiction
"For we conceive it as the aim of a philosopher, as such, to do somewhat more than define and formulate the common normal opinions of mankind. His function is to tell men what they ought to think, rat…"-Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 7th Edition (Hackett Classics)
