10 Best philosophy books like Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Leo Löwenthal

Cover of Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Leo Löwenthal

Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

By: Leo Löwenthal

4.03

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

This book analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agita…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Leo Löwenthal , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4) by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, Walter Moers

1. The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)

By: J. Maxwell Brownjohn , Walter Moers

4.39

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

The author of 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinne… read more

Similar categories in J. Maxwell Brownjohn's The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4) book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

"Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think."

-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)

"Со звезд мы пришли, на звезды вернемся. Жизнь - лишь путешествие в неведомое"."

-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)

"Ist es nicht absurd, dass einem die Erinnerung an gute Zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?"

-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)

"Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert."

-J. Maxwell Brownjohn, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)

Cover of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Cover of Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Nörr, Edmund Jephcott

3. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more

Similar categories in Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture by Theodor W. Adorno, Stephen Crook

4. The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture

By: Theodor W. Adorno , Stephen Crook

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

The essays collected here offer an analysis of the irrational dimensions of modern culture which is… read more

Similar categories in Theodor W. Adorno's The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris, Lew Hartman

5. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman

4.15

Format: 32 pages,

Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more

Similar categories in Miyamoto Musashi's A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history

6. The Authoritarian Personality

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None , None , None , None , None , None

4.20

Format: None pages,

Bringing together the findings of psychoanalysis and social science, this book grew out of an urgen… read more

Similar categories in Theodor W. Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

7. The Complete Stories

By: Franz Kafka , John Updike , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir , James Stern , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Nahum N. Glatzer , None

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Me… read more

Similar categories in Franz Kafka's The Complete Stories book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

8. Michael Kohlhaas

By: Heinrich von Kleist

3.54

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

Based on historical events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridges the gap between… read more

Similar categories in Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

"Because dearest Lisbeth, I will not abide in a country in which my rights are not protected. If I am to be trampled underfoot, I would rather be a dog than a man. I am certain that, on this point, my…"

-Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas

9. Negative Dialectics

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philo… read more

Similar categories in Theodor W. Adorno's Negative Dialectics book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

10. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

Similar categories in Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

11. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

By: Jean Améry , None , None

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain...all the way to its stoic conclusion." -… read more

Similar categories in Jean Améry's At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

12. 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

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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

Cover of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton

13. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Die Möglichkeit von Glück by Anne Rabe

14. Die Möglichkeit von Glück

By: Anne Rabe

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In der DDR geboren, im wiedervereinigten Deutschland aufgewachsen. Als die Mauer fällt, ist Stine g… read more

Similar categories in Anne Rabe's Die Möglichkeit von Glück book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of Recitatif by Toni Morrison

15. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's Recitatif book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

Cover of Herkunft by Saša Stanišić

16. Herkunft

By: Saša Stanišić

4.17

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was da… read more

Similar categories in Saša Stanišić's Herkunft book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

"Träume sind etwas Lebendiges - und als solche vergänglich wie das Gedächtnis."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Zoki walks into the classroom, puts a piece of paper down on the teacher’s desk, and shouts: “Everyone write your name."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Otec tancoval a už nebol nazúrený, napokon to ani nejde dohromady, všetko ostatné sa dá robiť aj s hnevom, ale toto nie, nie objímanie."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Ich verstehe nicht, dass Herkunft Eigenschaften mit sich bringen soll, und verstehe nicht, dass manche bereit sind, in ihrem Namen in Schlachten zu ziehen."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

Cover of Eurotrash by Christian Kracht

17. Eurotrash

By: Christian Kracht

3.67

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

»I’ll see you in twenty-five years.« Laura Palmer. »Also, ich musste wieder auf ein paar Tage na… read more

Similar categories in Christian Kracht's Eurotrash book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of Eine Arbeiterin by Didier Eribon

18. Eine Arbeiterin

By: Didier Eribon

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Eigentlich hatte Didier Eribon sich vorgenommen, ab jetzt regelmäßig nach Fismes zu fahren. Doch se… read more

Similar categories in Didier Eribon's Eine Arbeiterin book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Die Sommer by Ronya Othmann

19. Die Sommer

By: Ronya Othmann

4.36

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Das Dorf liegt in Nordsyrien, nahe zur Türkei. Jeden Sommer verbringt Leyla dort. Sie riecht und sc… read more

Similar categories in Ronya Othmann's Die Sommer book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus. Ein Vortrag by Theodor W. Adorno

20. Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus. Ein Vortrag

By: Theodor W. Adorno

4.19

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Am 6. April 1967 hielt Theodor W. Adorno auf Einladung des Verbands Sozialistischer Studenten Öster… read more

Similar categories in Theodor W. Adorno's Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus. Ein Vortrag book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of An Introduction to Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno

21. An Introduction to Dialectics

By: Theodor W. Adorno

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialecti… read more

Similar categories in Theodor W. Adorno's An Introduction to Dialectics book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe

22. For a Left Populism

By: Chantal Mouffe

3.58

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Wes… read more

Similar categories in Chantal Mouffe's For a Left Populism book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
Cover of Ô vous, frères humains by Albert Cohen

23. Ô vous, frères humains

By: Albert Cohen

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Un enfant juif rencontre la haine le jour de ses dix ans. J'ai été cet enfant."Albert Cohen. read more

Similar categories in Albert Cohen's Ô vous, frères humains book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of Ungleich vereint by Steffen Mau

24. Ungleich vereint

By: Steffen Mau

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Die Diskussion über Ostdeutschland und das Verhältnis zwischen Ost und West flammt immer wieder auf… read more

Similar categories in Steffen Mau's Ungleich vereint book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sauhund by Lion Christ

25. Sauhund

By: Lion Christ

3.95

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

München, 1983. Flori kommt vom Land und sucht das pralle Leben, Glanz und Gloria, einen Mann, der i… read more

Similar categories in Lion Christ's Sauhund book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of Die Abstiegsgesellschaft: Über das Aufbegehren in der regressiven Moderne by Oliver Nachtwey

26. Die Abstiegsgesellschaft: Über das Aufbegehren in der regressiven Moderne

By: Oliver Nachtwey

4.05

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Die Möglichkeit des sozialen Aufstiegs war eines der zentralen Versprechen der »alten« BRD – und ta… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Nachtwey's Die Abstiegsgesellschaft: Über das Aufbegehren in der regressiven Moderne book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

27. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

Similar categories in Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

Cover of Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Leo Löwenthal

28. Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

By: Leo Löwenthal

4.03

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

This book analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agita… read more

Similar categories in Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
Cover of Gegen den Geist des Sozialismus by Olaf Kistenmacher

29. Gegen den Geist des Sozialismus

By: Olaf Kistenmacher

4.33

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Antisemitismus in der politischen Linken wurde nicht erst nach 1945 zum Thema. Die Kritik daran ist… read more

Similar categories in Olaf Kistenmacher's Gegen den Geist des Sozialismus book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Cover of Judenhass Underground: Antisemitismus in emanzipatorischen Subkulturen und Bewegungen by Nicholas  Potter

30. Judenhass Underground: Antisemitismus in emanzipatorischen Subkulturen und Bewegungen

By: Nicholas Potter

4.54

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

„Schonungslose Analysen für eine emanzipatorische Subkultur, die diese Bezeichnung tatsächlich verd… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Potter's Judenhass Underground: Antisemitismus in emanzipatorischen Subkulturen und Bewegungen book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel

31. Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11

By: Matthias Küntzel

4.16

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

German historian Matthias Küntzel’s Jihad and Jew-Hatred details how contemporary Islamist movement… read more

Similar categories in Matthias Küntzel's Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 book and Leo Löwenthal's Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

10 must-read history books like Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator by Leo Löwenthal

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

Transform Your Habits

A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman

4.15

Transform Your Habits

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

Vincent Bevins

4.28

View all the books

13 Best philosophy books like A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris, Lew Hartman

Transform Your Habits

The Art of War

Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Mastery

Robert Greene

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene , Joost Elffers

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.