7 must-read philosophy books like Russian Cosmism by Boris Groys

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Russian Cosmism

By: Boris Groys

3.90

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevi…

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Cover of The Society of the Spectacle by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Guy Debord

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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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. 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

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3. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. Camanchaca

By: Diego Zúñiga

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

La historia parece simple: un muchacho viaja desde Santiago hasta Iquique con su padre y la familia… read more

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5. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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6. Policía del Karma

By: Jorge Baradit , Martín Cáceres

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Imagina que un dia te sacan a patadas de tu casa acusado de un crimen que cometiste hace 200 anos..… read more

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7. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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8. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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9. Los pichiciegos

By: Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

4.00

Format: 205 pages,

Escrita en medio del conflicto belico y terminada poco antes de que finalizara la guerra de Malvina… read more

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10. The Incal

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Justin Kelly , None

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside do… read more

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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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12. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

By: None , Keith Gessen

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more

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13. El amor brujo

By: Roberto Arlt

3.46

Format: 32 pages,

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14. 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

15. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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16. Los niños

By: Carolina Sanín

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Laura Romero vive con su perro Brus. Un sabado a media noche aparece bajo su balcon un nino de seis… read more

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17. Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more

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18. Pioneros de la ciencia ficción rusa (Pioneros de la ciencia ficción rusa, #1)

By: Aleksey Apukhtin , None , None , None , Alberto Pérez Vivas

3.59

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

El espiritu de Pioneros de la ciencia ficcion rusa podria condensarse en esta observacion -fundamen… read more

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19. La utilidad de lo inútil: Manifiesto

By: Nuccio Ordine , None , None

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

En esta obra se repasan las opiniones de filosofos y escritores sobre la importancia de seguir tute… read more

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20. Altazor, Or, a Voyage in a Parachute: Poem in VII Cantos (1919)

By: Eliot Weinberger , Vicente Huidobro

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Vicente Huidobro was a one-man movement (Creationism) in the modernist swirl of Paris and Barcelona… read more

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21. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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22. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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23. La piedra de la locura

By: Benjamín Labatut

3.48

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones lit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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24. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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25. El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes

By: Tatiana Țîbuleac

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Plena de emoción y crudeza, Tatiana Ţîbuleac muestra una intensísima fuerza narrativa en este bruta… read more

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"De ce nu începuse mama să moară mai devreme?"

-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes

"Te he querido, Aleksy, te he querido como he podido."

-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes

"Ni rien ni personne ne m'intéressait, et je ne pensais ni à l'avenir ni au présent. Je vivais du passé, comme les pauvres vivent de pain rassis."

-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes

"La imposibilidad de morir cuando tenía la necesidad absoluta de hacerlo fue la injusticia más grande que se ha cometido conmigo, y conmigo se han cometido muchas injusticias."

-Tatiana Țîbuleac, El verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes

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26. Yo no sé de otras cosas

By: Elisa Levi

4.28

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Lea tiene 19 años, un ardor en la tripa y una vida entera en un pueblo con cuatro calles, una igles… read more

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27. Proletkult

By: Wu Ming

3.66

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Previous cover edition for ISBN 9788806236946 Unione delle Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche, 19… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
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28. After Work: The Politics of Free Time

By: Helen Hester

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free tim… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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29. La Fuga de Siberia en un Trineo de Renos

By: Leon Trotsky

3.74

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Traducida al español por primera vez, La fuga de Siberia en un trineo de renos es la obra de un rev… read more

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30. El último pogo de Rita Maldita (Spanish Edition)

By: Daniel Hidalgo

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

Creyendo que será el festival de rock de sus vidas, Miss Horror y Rita Maldita parten junto a un gr… read more

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31. Russian Cosmism

By: Boris Groys

3.90

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevi… read more

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  • philosophy
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4.14

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3.48

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