6 Top philosophy books like Breve historia de la filosofía by Humberto Giannini

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Breve historia de la filosofía

By: Humberto Giannini

4.24

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the philosophy plot in Breve historia de la filosofía by Humberto Giannini , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Wisdom of Life

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None , T. Bailey Saunders

4.12

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

A leading German philosopher and metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)… read more

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  • philosophy
"The perverse, obtuse, wicked biped race"

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

"La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

"Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

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2. Narraciones extraordinarias (I)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.18

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Poe es el gran incomprendido de su época, sin que por ello hubiera pasado inadvertido o desconocido… read more

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3. 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
"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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4. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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5. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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6. Bonsái y La vida privada de los árboles

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.02

Format: None pages,

Condenado a la seriedad y a la impostura, Julio, el silencioso protagonista de Bonsai- la novela qu… read more

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7. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

By: Andrea Wulf

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more

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  • history
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8. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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  • philosophy
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

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9. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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10. Seeing

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote.… read more

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11. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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12. Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more

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13. Kiss of the Spider Woman

By: Manuel Puig

4.01

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more

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"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

14. 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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15. Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

By: Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou

4.24

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Éste es probablemente el libro más famoso de Stefan Zweig. En él lleva a su cima el arte de la mini… read more

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  • history
"Pero incluso con sus favoritos, el destino no siempre se muestra magnánimo. Rara vez conceden los dioses a los mortales más de una hazaña única e imperecedera."

-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

"Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı gelince, dava adamı olma sorumluluğunu üstlenmekte zorlanırlar ve pek nadir durumlarda harekete geçerler. Düşün…"

-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

"ich spüre wieder erschrocken, eine wie schwache, armselige und quallige Substanz das doch sein muß, was wir immer großspurig Seele, Geist, Gefühl, was wir Schmerzen nen- nen, da all dies selbst im äu…"

-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas

16. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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17. Discourse on Method

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more

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18. La utilidad de lo inútil: Manifiesto

By: Nuccio Ordine , None , None

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

En esta obra se repasan las opiniones de filosofos y escritores sobre la importancia de seguir tute… read more

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19. Silk

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more

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20. Sobre héroes y tumbas

By: None

4.79

Format: None pages,

Esta es la segunda novela de Ernesto Sabato, que profundiza la senda iniciada por El tunel. Una obr… read more

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21. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

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22. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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23. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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24. Blindness

By: José Saramago

4.17

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more

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"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

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25. Las gratitudes

By: Delphine de Vigan

4.30

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

«Hoy ha muerto una anciana a la que yo quería. A menudo pensaba: "Le debo tanto." O: "Sin ella, pro… read more

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"A veces conviene aceptar el vacío que deja la pérdida. Renunciar a la distracción. Aceptar que ya no hay nada que decir. Permanecer sentado, a su vera. Cogiéndola de la mano."

-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes

"Tras sus miradas borrosas, sus gestos inseguros, sus cuerpos encorvados o doblados por la mitad, busco al muchacho o a la muchacha que fueron como quien pretende descubrir el esbozo original de un di…"

-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes

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26. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more

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"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

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27. Revolución: Una novela

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

4.18

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

UN HOMBRE, TRES MUJERES Y UNA REVOLUCIÓN.UN VIAJE AL CORAZÓN HUMANO Y A LA AVENTURA. Ésta es l… read more

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28. La ciencia oscura (Spanish Edition)

By: Gabriel León

4.22

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Sin tener en cuenta la ética ni el bienestar de hombres y mujeres, la historia de la ciencia acumul… read more

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29. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
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30. Breve historia de la filosofía

By: Humberto Giannini

4.24

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
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