6 Best history books like The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition by Zeev Sternhell

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The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition

By: Zeev Sternhell

3.91

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israe…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism

By: Richard Wolin

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Fifteen years ago, revelations about the political misdeeds of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man sen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Buried Giant

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more

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"Are you still there, Axl?"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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4. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

By: Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Hardcover

Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absol… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. 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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"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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6. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Life and Fate

By: Vasily Grossman , Robert Chandler

4.09

Format: 156 pages,

Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnik… read more

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8. The Discourses

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more

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9. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

10. Mussolini

By: Denis Mack Smith

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An unflinching portrait of a supreme opportunist. Although Mussolini considered himself a man of de… read more

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11. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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12. Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die

By: Steven Nadler

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about li… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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13. The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition

By: Zeev Sternhell

3.91

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israe… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • european history

6 Top politics books like The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition by Zeev Sternhell

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Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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3.73

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4.38

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4.22

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Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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4.20

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Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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