5 best-selling philosophy books like What Animals Teach Us about Politics by Brian Massumi

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What Animals Teach Us about Politics

By: Brian Massumi

3.96

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics , Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By t…

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1. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. Alligator

By: Lisa Moore

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

Lisa Moore's wickedly fresh first novel, a Canadian best seller, winner of the Commonwealth Writers… read more

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3. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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  • philosophy
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

4. 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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5. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

6. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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7. 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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8. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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9. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"

-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

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10. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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11. What Animals Teach Us about Politics

By: Brian Massumi

3.96

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics , Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By t… read more

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  • politics
  • animals
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • cultural studies

5 must-read nonfiction books like What Animals Teach Us about Politics by Brian Massumi

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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

2.57

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Phenomenology of Spirit

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel

4.19

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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

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René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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Ethics

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

4.10

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