19 Best philosophy books like A imaginação by Jean-Paul Sartre

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A imaginação

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

3.59

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This new translation includes a helpful historical and philosophical introduction by Kenneth Willif…

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1. Tao Te Ching

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

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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2. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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3. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes

By: Michel Pastoureau , Michel Pastoureau; Translator-Jody Gladding

4.04

Format: 192 pages,

"The medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from a foregro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Phaedo

By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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7. Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it represents Freud… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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8. Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir's first-person account of the last ten years of Sartre's life, and it is heartbr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
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9. Women Who Run With the Wolves

By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

4.13

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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  • french literature
  • psychology
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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11. House of Leaves

By: Mark Z. Danielewski

4.09

Format: 710 pages, Paperback

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more

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"I must read. I must read. I must read."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

12. 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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13. Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more

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14. 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
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"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

15. Phenomenology of Perception

By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Colin Smith

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Together with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period and … read more

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16. The Book of Tea

By: Kakuzō Okakura

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add gra… read more

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17. 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

18. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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19. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychology
"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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20. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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21. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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22. I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

4.06

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more

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"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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23. La crisis de la narración

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."

-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración

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24. 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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25. Happiness

By: Alain Badiou

3.69

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The concept of happiness is a rather tainted and off-putting one for philosophers. It has, in conte… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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26. Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax

By: Alenka Zupančič

4.47

Format: 104 pages, ebook

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it kee… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Antigone emerges as a figure of pure desire precisely because, with her words and actions, she incites in others this tenacious question: What does she want? She states what she wants from the outset…"

-Alenka Zupančič, Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax

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27. Badiou by Badiou

By: Alain Badiou

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Toegankelijke vogelvlucht door het eigen denken van een van de meest vooraanstaande Franstalige fil… read more

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  • philosophy
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28. The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III

By: Alain Badiou

4.57

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou's entire oeuvre. It is forme… read more

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  • philosophy
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29. A imaginação

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

3.59

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This new translation includes a helpful historical and philosophical introduction by Kenneth Willif… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature

16 Best nonfiction books like A imaginação by Jean-Paul Sartre

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

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

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Poetics

Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes

Michel Pastoureau , Michel Pastoureau; Translator-Jody Gladding

4.04

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17 Top fiction books like House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Transform Your Habits

Penpal

Dathan Auerbach

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Uzumaki

Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki

3.95

Transform Your Habits

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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