Spinoza and Politics
By: Étienne Balibar
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the …
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1. Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
By: Gilles Deleuze , Martin Joughin
4.28
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the th… read more
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"What counts is the question, of what is a body capable? And thereby he sets out one of the most fundamental questions in his whole philosophy (before him there had been Hobbes and others) by saying t…"-Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
2. 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
3. Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more
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4. Zeros and Ones
By: Sadie Plant
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural r… read more
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5. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Robert Hurley
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, … read more
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6. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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7. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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- philosophy
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8. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World
By: Matthew Stewart
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From Publisher's WeeklyStarred Review. According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a pers… read more
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9. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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10. Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more
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11. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
12. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
By: Theodor W. Adorno , None
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more
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13. On the Abolition of All Political Parties
By: Czesław Miłosz , Simone Weil , Simon Leys
4.05
Format: 73 pages, Paperback
A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who went to… read more
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"When water is set in motion by a violent, impetuous current, it ceases to reflect images. Its surface is no longer level; it can no more measure densities. Whether it is moved by a single current or …"-Czesław Miłosz, On the Abolition of All Political Parties
14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
By: Jonathan I. Israel
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the com… read more
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16. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
By: Louis Althusser
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transf… read more
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17. Savage Anamoly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics
By: Michael Hardt , Antonio Negri
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In this essential rereading of Spinoza's (1632-1677) philosophical and political writings, Negri po… read more
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18. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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19. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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20. Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Gilles Deleuze , Jean McNeil
5.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philos… read more
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21. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more
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"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
22. Essays Critical and Clinical
By: Gilles Deleuze , Daniel W. Smith , Michael A. Greco
5.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The essays collected here testify to Deleuze's fundamental conviction that philosophy cannot be und… read more
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23. A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
By: Steven Nadler
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" was denounced as the mo… read more
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25. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
By: Slavoj Žižek
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at… read more
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26. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
27. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
By: Perry Anderson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the mo… read more
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28. How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
By: Jonas Čeika
4.17
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
From the creator of the Cuck Philosophy YouTube channel comes this timely and explosive re-evaluati… read more
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"The forces which dominate us, despite their immense power, are never concrete, visible, tangible — we live under the shadow of their abstract domination. Our activity is for the most part instrumenta…"-Jonas Čeika, How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
"At every step, we must demand not only more than they are willing to concede us, but more than they are capable of conceding us, such that the limitations of the present society are exposed and pushe…"-Jonas Čeika, How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century
29. Spinoza: Political Treatise (Hackett Classics)
By: Baruch Spinoza
3.77
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Political Treatise, Spinoza’s final work, is a largely theoretical inquiry into the fundamental… read more
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"Citizens are not born, but made."-Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Political Treatise (Hackett Classics)
"I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them."-Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Political Treatise (Hackett Classics)
"I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them; and, to this end, I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, an…"-Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Political Treatise (Hackett Classics)
30. Spinoza and Politics
By: Étienne Balibar
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the … read more
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31. Reading Hegel
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.93
Format: None pages, ebook
A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have en… read more
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