20 must-read philosophy books like The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings by Louis Althusser

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The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

By: Louis Althusser

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The first publication of seminal early writing by Louis Althusser. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, …

"the word seeks a resolution in itself; it seeks the mediation between itself and the world in itself, yet never produces anything more than a demiurge of words"

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

"the philosopher only rewrites his own alienation in terms of being: because he is alienated from himself in his thought, his thought is the essence of alienation..."

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

"We were straightfacedly told that, to understand the Phenomenology and the Encyclopædia, we had to go back to Abraham, Isaac, and the desert. Today it is all too obvious this sort of exegesis was merely a manoeuvre."

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

"The time has come in which the overriding preoccupation of bourgeois philosophers and littérateurs is the following question: ‘What does the truth have to be for the Communists to be wrong? What does Marx have to be for the Communists to be wrong?’ Thus it is that our bourgeois politicians and philosophers fabricate the truth and the events they need to condemn their adversary the more forcefully."

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. Another View of Stalin

By: Ludo Martens

4.02

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

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3. The Ego and Its Own

By: Max Stirner , David Leopold

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more

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"Political liberty,"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"A minha causa é a causa de nada."

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"

-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

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4. Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more

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5. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

By: Reza Negarestani

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samiz… read more

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6. 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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7. The Assignation

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.84

Format: 352 pages,

The Assignationis a short story with Gothic touches and a tragic ending. The story was published as… read more

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8. 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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"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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9. 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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10. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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11. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Allan Bloom , Alexandre Kojève , James H. Nichols

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophica… read more

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12. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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13. The Philosophy of Marx

By: Étienne Balibar

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need: this special edition includes pedago… read more

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14. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

15. Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs

By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Gilles Deleuze , Jean McNeil

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philos… read more

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16. 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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"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

17. Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , None

3.71

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

(Great Books in Philosophy) Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the … read more

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18. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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19. 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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20. Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse

By: Antonio Negri , Jim Fleming , Harry Cleaver

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

A key figure in the Italian Autonomia Movement reads Marxs Grndrisse, developing the critical and c… read more

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21. Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature

By: Gilles Deleuze , Constantin V. Boundas

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to e… read more

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22. 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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23. How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century

By: Jonas Čeika

4.17

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

From the creator of the Cuck Philosophy YouTube channel comes this timely and explosive re-evaluati… read more

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"The forces which dominate us, despite their immense power, are never concrete, visible, tangible — we live under the shadow of their abstract domination. Our activity is for the most part instrumenta…"

-Jonas Čeika, How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century

"At every step, we must demand not only more than they are willing to concede us, but more than they are capable of conceding us, such that the limitations of the present society are exposed and pushe…"

-Jonas Čeika, How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century

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24. On the Concept of History

By: Walter Benjamin

4.33

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

On The Concept of History written by legendary author Walter Benjamin is widely considered to be on… read more

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"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation"

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

"Articolare storicamente il passato non significa conoscerlo <>. Significa impadronirsi di un ricordo come esso balena nell'istante di un pericolo."

-Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

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25. Considerations on Western Marxism

By: Perry Anderson

4.01

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in West… read more

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26. An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital

By: Michael Heinrich

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a … read more

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27. Intelligence and Spirit

By: Reza Negarestani

4.14

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

The history of philosophy conceived as the elaboration of a program for artificial general intellig… read more

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"What makes Hegel's picture of geist a significant contribution not only to the history of functionalism and philosophy of mind but also, intriguingly, to the history of artificial general intelligenc…"

-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit

"In the wake of scientific rationality, mind turns into a wave of noetic deracination. This deracination of thought and its noetic drift is commensurate with what Plato calls the Form of Good as the F…"

-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit

"Functional analysis and the study of structural complexity should be approached as essentially conjoined programs. Unless both are in place, description and prescription in any form will be untenable…"

-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit

"It is therefore necessary to grasp the concept of artificial general intelligence not merely as a technoscientific idea, but more fundamentally as a concept belonging to a thought or form of intellig…"

-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit

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28. Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.

By: Joseph Stalin

3.70

Format: 71 pages, None

CONTENTS:Remarks On Economic Questions Connected With The November 1951 Discussion1. Character of E… read more

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29. The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

By: Louis Althusser

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The first publication of seminal early writing by Louis Althusser. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, … read more

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  • philosophy
"the word seeks a resolution in itself; it seeks the mediation between itself and the world in itself, yet never produces anything more than a demiurge of words"

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

"the philosopher only rewrites his own alienation in terms of being: because he is alienated from himself in his thought, his thought is the essence of alienation..."

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

"We were straightfacedly told that, to understand the Phenomenology and the Encyclopædia, we had to go back to Abraham, Isaac, and the desert. Today it is all too obvious this sort of exegesis was mer…"

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

"The time has come in which the overriding preoccupation of bourgeois philosophers and littérateurs is the following question: ‘What does the truth have to be for the Communists to be wrong? What does…"

-Louis Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings

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30. Lysenko Is Right

By: James Fyfe

4.50

Format: 65 pages, Unknown Binding

In this little book a botanist with 15 years' experience of agricultural plant breeding approaches … read more

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"genes are an image of the ruling class as it sees itself."

-James Fyfe, Lysenko Is Right

"In experimental science, to say that one understands a process, or can explain it, means that one can control it."

-James Fyfe, Lysenko Is Right

"hypothetical genes are endowed with miraculous properties. The main property of a gene is to act as an ‘unmoved mover’ ..."

-James Fyfe, Lysenko Is Right

"There is a very close parallel between the idea of genes in biology and the political idea of an élite, a ‘chosen’ ruling class."

-James Fyfe, Lysenko Is Right

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