15 must-read nonfiction books like Philosophy of Foucault (Continental European Philosophy Series) (Volume 8) by Todd May

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Philosophy of Foucault (Continental European Philosophy Series) (Volume 8)

By: Todd May

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

What remains constant is that Foucault never stops asking the question of who we are and how we cam…

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1. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975

By: Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , Graham Burchell , None

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de Fra… read more

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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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4. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"

By: Judith Butler

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more

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5. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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6. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

By: Sarah Bakewell

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more

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7. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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8. How to Read Foucault

By: Johanna Oksala

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Michel Foucault was a philosopher of extraordinary talent, political activist, social theorist, cul… read more

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9. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more

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10. Escape from Freedom

By: Erich Fromm

3.47

Format: 288 pages,

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably… read more

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11. How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor

By: James K.A. Smith

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to say we live in a secular world? Charles Taylor's landmark book A Secular Agepr… read more

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12. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

13. Tropic of Capricorn

By: Henry Miller

4.00

Format: 16 pages,

Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume… read more

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14. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

By: David Abram

4.03

Format: 512 pages,

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15. 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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16. Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis

By: Karen Horney

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Unlike Freud, Horney does not regard neurosis as rooted in instinct. In her words, her theory is co… read more

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17. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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18. 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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19. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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20. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

By: Michel Foucault

4.29

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Col… read more

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21. Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason

By: Thomas Lemke

4.31

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

Tracking the development of Foucault's key conceptsLemke offers the most comprehensive and systemat… read more

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22. Philosophy of Foucault (Continental European Philosophy Series) (Volume 8)

By: Todd May

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

What remains constant is that Foucault never stops asking the question of who we are and how we cam… read more

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13 best-selling philosophy books like Philosophy of Foucault (Continental European Philosophy Series) (Volume 8) by Todd May

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Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975

Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , Graham Burchell , None

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"

Judith Butler

2.60

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4.15

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

4.15

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The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

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Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

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