7 best-selling theory books like Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France) by Michel Foucault

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Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France)

By: Michel Foucault

4.32

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

“The working hypothesis is this:  it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independ…

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1. The Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

4.01

Format: 703 pages, Hardcover

Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more

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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"On peut démontrer ainsi ni la stérilité ni la fécondité ne fournissent aucune distinction certaines entre les espèces et les variétés."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

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2. The Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the em… read more

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3. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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4. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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5. Principles of Philosophy

By: René Descartes , John Veitch , Paul Hoyt-O'Connor

3.65

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Rene Descartes is perhaps most remembered for declaring, I think; therefore, I am. First published … read more

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6. 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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7. 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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8. What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays

By: Giorgio Agamben , David Kishik , Stefan Pedatella

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work thro… read more

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9. The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982–1983

By: Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , Graham Burchell

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the College de France, launches an inquiry into the notio… read more

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10. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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11. Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care suffic… read more

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12. Phyl-Undhu: Abstract Horror, Exterminator

By: Nick Land

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

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13. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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14. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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15. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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16. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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17. House of Leaves

By: Mark Z. Danielewski

4.09

Format: 710 pages, Paperback

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more

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"I must read. I must read. I must read."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

18. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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19. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

20. Alcibiades

By: Plato

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Alcibiades was widely read in antiquity as the very best introduction to Plato. In spite of its… read more

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21. For a New Critique of Political Economy

By: Bernard Stiegler

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original cri… read more

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22. Impossible Exchange

By: Jean Baudrillard , Chris Turner

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

The uncertainty of the world lies in the fact that it has no equivalent anywhere; it cannot be exch… read more

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23. Foucault: A Very Short Introduction

By: Gary Gutting

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France, ov… read more

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24. The Kalevala

By: Anonymous , Elias Lönnrot , Keith Bosley

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich or… read more

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25. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more

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26. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

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27. Los llanos

By: Federico Falco

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Finalista del 38.º Premio Herralde de Novela Una novela sutil que aborda el duelo de una ruptura… read more

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28. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

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29. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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30. The Idea of Phenomenology (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works, 8)

By: Edmund Husserl

3.78

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

In this fresh translation of five lectures delivered in 1907 at the University of Göttingen, Edmund… read more

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31. Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France)

By: Michel Foucault

4.32

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

“The working hypothesis is this:  it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independ… read more

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14 must-read philosophy books like Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France) by Michel Foucault

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The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

4.01

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The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Sara Ahmed

4.34

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The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

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Principles of Philosophy

René Descartes , John Veitch , Paul Hoyt-O'Connor

3.65

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Dathan Auerbach

3.86

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Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk

3.59

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Uzumaki

Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki

3.95

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American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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