7 Best philosophy books like The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism) by Slavoj Žižek

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The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.95

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Ide…

"(..) und kein einzelner Ton für sich macht eine Disharmonie aus."

-Slavoj Žižek, The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit keinen Eintrag. Denn eben das In-sich-handeln-Lassen des guten oder bösen Prinzips ist die Folge der intelligiblen Tat, wodurch sein Wesen und Leben bestimmt ist."

-Slavoj Žižek, The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism) by Slavoj Žižek , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by Gilles Deleuze, Tom Conley

1. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque

By: Gilles Deleuze , Tom Conley

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a B… read more

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"The city seems to be a labyrinth that can be ordered. The world is an infinite series of curvatures or inflections, and the entire world is enclosed in the soul from one point of view."

-Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque

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2. Hymns to the Night

By: Novalis , Dick Higgins

4.05

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A… read more

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"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"

-Novalis, Hymns to the Night

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3. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

By: Ezra F. Vogel

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no sc… read more

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4. 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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5. Parmenides

By: Plato , Keith Whitaker

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues be… read more

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6. German Philosophy 1760-1860 : The Legacy of Idealism

By: Terry P. Pinkard

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy dominated European philosophy, chan… read more

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7. We Have Never Been Modern

By: Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever … read more

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8. Writing and Difference

By: Jacques Derrida , Alan Bass

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written b… read more

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9. Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more

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10. Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom

By: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of Schelling's enigmatic and influential m… read more

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11. Creative Evolution

By: Henri Bergson

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically. If.… read more

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12. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

13. The Complete Works

By: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite , Karlfried Froehlich

3.59

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

There are few figures in the history of Western Spirituality who are more enigmatic than the fifth … read more

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14. The Laugh of the Medusa

By: Hélène Cixous

4.09

Format: None pages,

Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to s… read more

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15. Discourse on Method

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more

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16. The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusatze

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , H.S. Harris , None , None

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A translation of Hegel's German text. It includes a bilingual annotated glossary, bibliographic and… read more

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17. On Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud , None

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Among the first of Sigmund Freud's many contributions to psychology and psychoanalysis was The Inte… read more

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18. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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19. Living Currency

By: Pierre Klossowski

3.98

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-tak… read more

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20. The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.95

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Ide… read more

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"(..) und kein einzelner Ton für sich macht eine Disharmonie aus."

-Slavoj Žižek, The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit kei…"

-Slavoj Žižek, The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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21. El capital I

By: Karl Marx

4.30

Format: 841 pages, Kindle Edition

Este libro ha sido convertido a formato digital por una comunidad de voluntarios. Puedes encontrarl… read more

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Gilles Deleuze , Tom Conley

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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Ezra F. Vogel

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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4.53

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4.22

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Giorgio Agamben , Kevin Attell , None

3.52

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Joshua Cohen

3.80

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Achille Mbembe

4.20

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