7 Best history books like The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem

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The Normal and the Pathological

By: Georges Canguilhem

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in th…

"La santé c'est une marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

"La santé c'est une marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

"L'instabilité des choses a pour corrélat l'impuissance de l'homme."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

"L'instabilité des choses a pour corrélat l'impuissance de l'homme."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

If you liked the history plot in The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Society of the Spectacle by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Guy Debord

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
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • history
"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

Cover of Nietzsche and Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze, Michael Hardt, Hugh Tomlinson

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
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"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. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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4. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • philosophy
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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5. 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
  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. The Uncanny

By: Sigmund Freud , Adam Phillips , David McLintock , Hugh Haughton

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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7. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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8. The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

By: Monique Wittig

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault, Richard Howard, José Teixeira Coelho Netto

9. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
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10. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
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11. Mental Illness and Psychology

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , Hubert L. Dreyfus

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This seminal early work of Foucault is indispensable to understanding his development as a thinker.… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology

12. Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology

By: Edmund Husserl

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The "Cartesian Meditations" translation is based primarily on the printed text, edited by Professor… read more

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13. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

By: Michel Foucault , None

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In the eighteenth century, medi… read more

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14. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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15. Le Malade imaginaire

By: Molière

3.63

Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more

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  • france
"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

16. Critique of Judgment

By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more

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17. 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

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18. Living My Life

By: Emma Goldman , سهیلا بسکی

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the … read more

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19. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"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

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20. The Normal and the Pathological

By: Georges Canguilhem

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in th… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • history of science
  • disability studies
  • science
"La santé c'est une marge de tolérance des infidélités du milieu."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

"L'instabilité des choses a pour corrélat l'impuissance de l'homme."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

"we have only to remember that disease happens to man in order not to lose all hope."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

"Il n'y a pas de trouble pathologique en soi, l'anormal ne peut être apprécié que dans une relation."

-Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

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21. Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine

By: Chaim Gingold

4.04

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

A deep dive into the trailblazing simulation game SimCity , situating it in the history of games, s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

11 best-selling philosophy books like The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem

Transform Your Habits

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Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Nietzsche and Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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15 must-read classics books like Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, Donald A. Cress

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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

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

4.10

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