8 Top nonfiction books like Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Essays on Heidegger and Others by Richard Rorty

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Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Essays on Heidegger and Others

By: Richard Rorty

4.19

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The second volume pursues the themes of the first volume in the context of discussions of recent Eu…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Essays on Heidegger and Others by Richard Rorty , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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4. Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Marianne Cowan

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

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8. 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
"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

9. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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10. 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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11. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"

-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

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12. Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Essays on Heidegger and Others

By: Richard Rorty

4.19

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The second volume pursues the themes of the first volume in the context of discussions of recent Eu… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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13. Deconstruction and Pragmatism

By: Simon Critchley

3.83

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contempora… read more

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  • nonfiction

7 best-selling philosophy books like Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Essays on Heidegger and Others by Richard Rorty

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

4.09

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Friedrich Nietzsche , Marianne Cowan

4.30

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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Michael J. Sandel

4.31

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Notes from Underground

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

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

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Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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James Baldwin

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