The Failure of Technology
By: Friedrich Georg Jünger
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Friedrich Georg Jungers grosser Essay Die Perfektion der Technik - 1939 geschrieben, 1946 erstmals …
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. 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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- philosophy
"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
3. Normas para el parque humano
By: Peter Sloterdijk , Teresa Rocha Barco
3.77
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Peter Sloterdijk irrumpe con este libro, de valor no sólo intelectual sino también literario, en el… read more
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"We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiri…"-Peter Sloterdijk, Normas para el parque humano
4. The Velveteen Rabbit
By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson
4.30
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more
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"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
5. The Possibility of an Island
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more
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"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
6. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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7. Fatal Strategies (Semiotext
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
In this shimmering manifesto against dialectics, Jean Baudrillard constructs a condemnatory ethics … read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more
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9. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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10. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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11. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
12. The Anti-Christ
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , H.L. Mencken
3.68
Format: 420 pages,
Monumento de escandalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre postuma del inquieta… read more
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14. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
15. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
16. The Waning of the Middle Ages
By: Johan Huizinga
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
This classic study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during the fourteenth an… read more
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17. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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18. Death on the Installment Plan
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Nightand Death on the … read more
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19. ABC of Reading
By: Ezra Pound
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound's aesthetic theory. W… read more
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20. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
21. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
22. Bronze Age Mindset
By: Bronze Age Pervert
3.84
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more
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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
23. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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- nonfiction
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- technology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
24. The Psychology of Totalitarianism
By: Mattias Desmet
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear wit… read more
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"The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Dissident speech doesn't have to be primarily tactical or rhetorical in nature, but it should be authentic and honest."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
25. Can Life Prevail?
By: Pentti Linkola
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Softcover
With the train of civilisation hurtling at ever-increasing speed towards self-destruction, the most… read more
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"Jos kansan ääntä kuunnellaan, ei toivoa ole. Demokratia on kuoleman uskonto."-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?
"Every example throughout the history of humanity shows that only deprivation and struggle create a human life worthy of the name"-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?
"Machines, however, were already looming upon us and were soon destined to strike at the heart of the wilderness — and elsewhere as well — depriving man of all he deserved: mighty labour, effort and s…"-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?
"Every individual who walks, runs, rides bikes, swims, rows, paddles, skis, shovels or hoes is setting up a line of defence against the mad onslaught of machines; if he is a parent, grandparent, teach…"-Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?
26. The Biocentric Worldview: Selected Essays and Poems of Ludwig Klages
By: Ludwig Klages
3.99
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
This book is a selection of essays and poems by the German philosopher and psychologist, Ludwig Kla… read more
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27. Parerga and Paralipomena
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
4.15
Format: 664 pages, Paperback
This is the only complete English translation of one of the most significant and fascinating works … read more
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"Genius lives only one storey above madness"-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
"In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone."-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
"Beauty is an open letter of recommendation that wins hearts for us in advance."-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
28. The Prophets of Doom
By: Neema Parvini
4.16
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Linear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy… read more
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29. The Failure of Technology
By: Friedrich Georg Jünger
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Friedrich Georg Jungers grosser Essay Die Perfektion der Technik - 1939 geschrieben, 1946 erstmals … read more
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30. Sturm (German Edition)
By: Ernst Jünger
3.75
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Die Erzählung "Sturm" erschien im April 1923 in Fortsetzungen in der Tageszeitungen "Hannoverscher … read more
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"Today words like 'persevere' and 'hero’s death' had been so ceaselessly bandied about that they had long since acquired an ironic sound—at least wherever there was actual fighting. . . . Once, before…"-Ernst Jünger, Sturm (German Edition)
"The vastness and deadly desolation of the field, the long-distance operation of steel machines, and the relay of every movement in the night drew an unyielding Titan’s mask over the proceedings. You …"-Ernst Jünger, Sturm (German Edition)
31. The Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1918-1932
By: Armin Mohler
4.16
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
The Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1918-1932 is one the most comprehensive, most lasting, and … read more
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