The Idea of Socialism
By: Axel Honneth
3.49
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism …
Want to Read $ 16.00"Only if all members of society can satisfy the needs they share with all others – physical and emotional intimacy, economic independence, and political self-determination – by relying on the sympathy and support of their partners in interaction will our society have become social in the full sense of the term."-Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism
"Only if all members of society can satisfy the needs they share with all others – physical and emotional intimacy, economic independence, and political self-determination – by relying on the sympathy and support of their partners in interaction will our society have become social in the full sense of the term."-Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. The Principles of Communism
By: Friedrich Engels
4.06
Format: 25 pages, ebook
In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
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- economics
3. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
By: Albert O. Hirschman
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline ra… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
5. The Human Condition
By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. La symphonie pastorale
By: André Gide
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
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7. 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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- history
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8. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
9. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
10. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz , Karl Polanyi , None
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and … read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
11. The German Ideology
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
12. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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14. Kant
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giant… read more
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15. Political Liberalism
By: Martha C. Nussbaum , John Rawls
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in "A Th… read more
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16. The Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson
3.91
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more
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- philosophy
"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
17. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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18. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
19. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
20. The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
By: Karen Armstrong
3.80
Format: 368 pages,
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand langu… read more
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21. 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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22. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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23. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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24. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
25. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
26. Breasts and Eggs
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.86
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more
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"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
27. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
By: Friedrich Engels
4.29
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
28. Left Is Not Woke
By: Susan Neiman
3.61
Format: None pages, ebook
If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you'r… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
"Identity politics not only contract the multiple components of our identities to one: they essentialize that component over which we have the least control."-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
"Critical understanding can arise from powerlessness, but does it always do so? Few champions of standpoint epistemology would argue that it does. And, if not, can we allow the experience of powerless…"-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
29. Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
By: Nancy Fraser
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions su… read more
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30. The Idea of Socialism
By: Axel Honneth
3.49
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism … read more
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- politics
- academic
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- nonfiction
- economics
"Only if all members of society can satisfy the needs they share with all others – physical and emotional intimacy, economic independence, and political self-determination – by relying on the sympathy…"-Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism
