21 Best politics books like Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism by Thomas Nail

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Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism

By: Thomas Nail

3.93

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and th…

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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
"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. Nietzsche and Philosophy

By: Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and P… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence."

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

"The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest…"

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

"It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we a…"

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

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3. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

By: Jacques Rancière , Kristin Ross

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"A material thing is first of all “the only bridge of communication between two minds."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

"To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

"Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

"It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in exchange for the inferiority he confesses to."

-Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

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4. Reform or Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

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5. 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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  • philosophy
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6. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
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7. The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx

By: Alex Callinicos

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
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8. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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9. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
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10. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
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11. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
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12. The Gnostic Gospels

By: Elaine Pagels

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminou… read more

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  • philosophy
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13. Foucault

By: Gilles Deleuze , Sean Hand , Paul Bove

3.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first analysis of Foucault's work by a major philosopher working within the same poststructural… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics

14. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more

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15. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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16. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more

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17. 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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18. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

19. Why Marx Was Right

By: Terry Eagleton

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism i… read more

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20. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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21. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile

By: None

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, o… read more

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22. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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23. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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24. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

By: Brian Klaas

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more

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  • politics
Cover of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures by Mark Fisher

25. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
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26. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

By: China Miéville

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"

-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

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27. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
"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

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28. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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29. Dead Space

By: Kali Wallace

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science … read more

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"I was never given a choice, I wanted to say, but I couldn't bring myself to speak the words aloud. It was true, and it was a comforting lie. We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we …"

-Kali Wallace, Dead Space

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30. Transgender Marxism

By: Jules Joanne Gleeson

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Transgender Marxism collects a set of reflections on the relations between gender and labour, showi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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31. Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism

By: Thomas Nail

3.93

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and th… read more

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19 Best philosophy books like Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism by Thomas Nail

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Nietzsche and Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

Jacques Rancière , Kristin Ross

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Lucy Sante

3.70

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