6 must-read philosophy books like Le Droit À La Ville by Henri Lefebvre

Cover of Le Droit À La Ville by Henri Lefebvre

Le Droit À La Ville

By: Henri Lefebvre

4.00

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

11x18x2cm. 1974. Broché. 794 pages.

"Assim, a integração e a participação são a obsessão dos não-participantes, daqueles que sobrevivem entre os fragmentos da sociedade possível e das ruínas do passado: excluídos da cidade, às portas do urbano […]"

-Henri Lefebvre, Le Droit À La Ville

"Assim, a integração e a participação são a obsessão dos não-participantes, daqueles que sobrevivem entre os fragmentos da sociedade possível e das ruínas do passado: excluídos da cidade, às portas do urbano […]"

-Henri Lefebvre, Le Droit À La Ville

If you liked the philosophy plot in Le Droit À La Ville by Henri Lefebvre , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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. Charlotte

By: David Foenkinos

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ce roman retrace la vie de Charlotte Salomon, artiste peintre morte à vingt-six ans alors qu'elle é… read more

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  • nonfiction
"La dicha se convierte en una isla en el pasado, inaccesible."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

"She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

"Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

Cover of King Kong théorie by Virginie Despentes

3. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

Cover of El lector de Julio Verne  (Episodios de una guerra interminable #2) by Almudena Grandes

4. El lector de Julio Verne (Episodios de una guerra interminable #2)

By: Almudena Grandes

4.35

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Nino, hijo de guardia civil, tiene nueve años, vive en la casa cuartel de un pueblo de la Sierra Su… read more

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5. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

Cover of The Wretched of the Earth by Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Philcox, Frantz Fanon, Homi K. Bhabha

6. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

Cover of The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette

7. The Princesse de Clèves

By: Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more

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8. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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Cover of The Charterhouse of Parma by Robert Andrew Parker, Richard Howard, Stendhal, Arthur Schurig

9. The Charterhouse of Parma

By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig

3.79

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more

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"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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11. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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12. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

By: Jonathan Lethem , Vivian Gornick

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle wi… read more

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13. The Craftsman

By: Richard Sennett

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sak… read more

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14. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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15. Carcoma

By: Layla Martínez

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more

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"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."

-Layla Martínez, Carcoma

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16. La seducción

By: Sara Torres

3.68

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

Tras el éxito de Lo que hay, vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia, el deseo y la fantasía la au… read more

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"Esa es la propuesta del 'amor' humano hacia los animales: adáptate a mi ley o muere."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"No elegimos las primeras imágenes que capturan nuestro deseo. Nos son impuestas: por azar, por poder o por norma."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Imagino ese concretísimo gesti para poder correrme. ¿Qué dice de mi? ¿Qué dicen de nosotras las imágenes que nos desatan?"

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Las observaba y sus gestos, imaginados en mi propia carne, me dolían, pero a ellas no. Parecía natural su ser suaves, imberbes, con aroma a frambuesa y a plátano."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

Cover of La Dispute by Pierre de Marivaux

17. La Dispute

By: Pierre de Marivaux

3.29

Format: 144 pages, Pocket Book

Afin de connaître qui, de l'homme ou de la femme, fut à l'origine de l'infidélité, le prince d'un r… read more

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18. El tiempo de la promesa

By: Marina Garcés

4.15

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Un libro incisivo y esperanzador sobre el poder de la palabra para reapropiarnos del presente y del… read more

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  • philosophy
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19. The Housing Question

By: Friedrich Engels

4.13

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Die nachfolgende Schrift ist der Wiederabdruck dreier Artikel, die ich 1872 in den Leipziger "Volks… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • urban studies
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
"For our workers in the big cities, freedom of movement is the prime condition of existence, and landownership can only be a fetter to them. Give them their own houses, chain them once again to the so…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

"It is perfectly clear that the existing state is neither able nor willing to do anything to remedy the housing difficulty. The state is nothing but the organized collective power of the possessing cl…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

Cover of Le Droit À La Ville by Henri Lefebvre

20. Le Droit À La Ville

By: Henri Lefebvre

4.00

Format: 281 pages, Mass Market Paperback

11x18x2cm. 1974. Broché. 794 pages. read more

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  • architecture
  • social science
  • politics
  • research
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • urban studies
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • sociology
"Assim, a integração e a participação são a obsessão dos não-participantes, daqueles que sobrevivem entre os fragmentos da sociedade possível e das ruínas do passado: excluídos da cidade, às portas do…"

-Henri Lefebvre, Le Droit À La Ville

Cover of Política y arquitectura: Por un urbanismo de lo común y ecofeminista (Spanish Edition) by Josep Maria Montaner

21. Política y arquitectura: Por un urbanismo de lo común y ecofeminista (Spanish Edition)

By: Josep Maria Montaner

3.95

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tras su paso por la política institucional, los autores revisan los postulados clave de la arquitec… read more

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4.02

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4.01

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Angela Y. Davis

4.58

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4.32

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3.78

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