The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason
By: Jürgen Habermas , Thomas A. McCarthy
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Juergen Habermas opens Volume 2 with a brilliant reinterpretation of Mead and Durkheim and then dev…
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1. 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
2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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3. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
By: Carol Cosman , Émile Durkheim , None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life(1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discoverin… read more
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4. The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason
By: Jürgen Habermas , Thomas A. McCarthy
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
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- social science
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- academic
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5. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon
3.90
Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more
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"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
6. 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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7. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
8. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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9. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
By: Max Weber , C. Wright Mills , None
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An introduction to the work of the greatest German sociologist and a key figure in the development … read more
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10. Philosophy and Real Politics
By: Raymond Geuss
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ide… read more
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11. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more
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12. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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13. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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14. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
15. Truth and Method
By: Hans-Georg Gadamer , None , None
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Written in the 1960s, Truth and Methodis Gadamer's magnum opus. An astonishing synthesis of literar… read more
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16. 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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"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
