5 must-read sociology books like Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman

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Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World

By: Zygmunt Bauman

3.87

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

'Community' is one of those words that feels it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a communi…

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1. The Politics of Aesthetics

By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill

3.92

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

By: Richard Sennett

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"İyi bir işin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri artık örtüşmüyordu."

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

"Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insanın karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlatıya dönüşmesini engelleyen çılgın zaman deneyimi arasında bir çatışma yarattı."

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

"... sürekli riske maruz kalmak, karakter duygunuzu iyice aşındırır. Ortalamaya doğru regresyon eğilimini yenebilecek hiçbir anlatı yoktur; insan her defasında 'baştan başlar'."

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

"Rutin, belirli bir noktada zararlı hale gelmeye başlar. Çünkü insanoğlu kendi çabası üzerindeki kontrolünü yitirir; çalışma zamanı üzerindeki kontrolün yitmesi ise insanın zihnen öldüğü anlamına geli…"

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

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3. Niebla

By: Miguel de Unamuno

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Esta obra de Miguel de Unamuno es uno de los ejemplos clásicos más eminentes de la novela moderna. … read more

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  • philosophy
"Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life"

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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4. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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8. Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more

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9. Zeytindağı

By: Falih Rıfkı Atay

4.16

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

"Büyük Harbi" ve sonuçlarını Falih Rıfkı'nın özgün anlatımı ile yeniden "öğrendim" diyebilirim. Ger… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Yalnız Kudüs'te dilencinin çerçevesi ihtişamlıdır: Medine, dini mallaştırmış ve maddeleştirmiş bir Asya pazarı idi. Kudüs dini oyunlaştırmış bir Garp tiyatrosudur."

-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı

"Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Trakya'dan Erzurum'a doğru koca gövdesini yatırmış, memelerini sömürge ve milliyetlerin ağzına teslim etmiş, artık sütü kanı ile karışık emilen bir sağmal idi."

-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı

"Kudüs kelimesi Hıristiyanlığı hatıra getirir. Fakat ne Kudüs'te, ne de Filistin'de Hıristiyanlık diye bir mesele yoktur. Kudüs'ün Hıristiyanlığı, Ortodoks Petersburg, Protestan Berlin, dinsiz Paris, …"

-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı

"Ölüm sabahları, herkes birbiriyle ürkerek ve ürpererek konuşur. Fakat ertesi güne kadar her şey unutulup gitti. Müse'nin mersiyesini ilhanx hatırlar mısınız? Paris'te her şey unutulmak için eğer on b…"

-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı

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10. The Hunting Gun

By: Yasushi Inoue , Sadamichi Yokoö

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition . The Hunting Gun, set in the period immediately following WWII, follows… read more

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11. Caim

By: José Saramago

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Neste novo romance, o vencedor do premio Nobel Jose Saramago reconta episodios biblicos do Velho Te… read more

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12. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other

By: Richard Howard , Tzvetan Todorov , Anthony Pagden

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

The Conquest of Americais a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with impl… read more

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13. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society

By: Jürgen Habermas , None

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributio… read more

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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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15. Crowds and Power

By: Elias Canetti , None

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Crowds and Poweris a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human … read more

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16. Tek Adam Cilt:1 1881-1919 (Tek Adam, #1)

By: Şevket Süreyya Aydemir

3.81

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Sevket Sureyya Aydemir, Tek Adam'da, degisen bir dunyada coken bir dinsel - geleneksel imparatorluk… read more

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17. What Is Philosophy?

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Called by many France's leading intellectual, Gilles Deleuze is one of the most important philosoph… read more

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18. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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19. 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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20. 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
  • nonfiction
"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

21. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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22. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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23. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

By: Cal Newport

3.36

Format: 96 pages, ebook

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is… read more

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24. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

25. The Noise of Time

By: Julian Barnes

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more

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26. 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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27. Shame

By: Annie Ernaux

3.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"People are forever remembering."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"We have no true memory of ourselves."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

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28. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

By: Johann Hari

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

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29. New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World

By: Alain Touraine

3.63

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Touraine is one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and many of his books have been p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • sociology
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30. Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World

By: Zygmunt Bauman

3.87

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

'Community' is one of those words that feels it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a communi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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31. ¿Qué es la filosofía?

By: Gustavo Bueno

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

¿Qué es la filosofía? Muchos se dan por satisfechos con la respuesta etimológico-psicológica: es el… read more

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  • philosophy

7 must-read politics books like Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman

Transform Your Habits

The Politics of Aesthetics

Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

Richard Sennett

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Transform Your Habits

Zeytindağı

Falih Rıfkı Atay

4.16

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The Prophet's Hair

Salman Rushdie

3.60

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Possession

A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

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Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

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Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (The Company, #4.5)

Kage Baker

3.30

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