The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th…
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1. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt , Tracy B. Strong
3.93
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic,… read more
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"Today nothing is more modern than the onslaught against the political. American financiers, industrial technicians, Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite in demanding tha…"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the …"-George Schwab, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
2. The Concept of the Political
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more
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"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
3. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
By: Henri Bergson , Fred Rothwell , Yaşar Avunç , None
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
En este espléndido ensayo filosófico escrito en los albores del siglo XX, Henri Bergson se pregunta… read more
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"A flexible vice may not be so easy to ridicule as a rigid virtue."-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them."-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"En ce sens, on pourrait dire que la nature obtient souvent elle-même des succès de caricaturiste. Dans le mouvement par lequel elle a fendu cette bouche, rétréci ce menton, gonflé cette joue, il semb…"-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"Si régulière que soit une physionomie, si harmonieuse qu'on en suppose les lignes, si souples les mouvements, jamais l'équilibre n'en est absolument parfait. On y démêlera toujours l'indication d'une…"-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
4. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
By: Johan Huizinga
3.80
Format: None pages,
Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western soc… read more
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5. Revolt Against the Modern World
By: Julius Evola , None
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more
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6. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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- spain
- spanish literature
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- sociology
7. Protagoras
By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature o… read more
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8. Escape from Freedom
By: Erich Fromm
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably… read more
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9. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
10. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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11. The Crisis of the Modern World
By: René Guénon , None , None
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more
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12. 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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13. Political Order in Changing Societies
By: Samuel P. Huntington , Francis Fukuyama
3.43
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nation… read more
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14. Tragic Sense of Life
By: Miguel de Unamuno , None
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
To the mentality that assumes, more or less consciously, that we must of necessity find a solution … read more
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15. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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16. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
17. The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
By: Oswald Spengler
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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18. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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19. The Forest Passage
By: Ernst Jünger
4.08
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent think… read more
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"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
"None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-bei…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
"Still more important is the consideration that in many people today a strong need for religious ritual coexists with an aversion to churches. There is a sense of something missing in existence, which…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
20. Ganz unten: Mit einer Dokumentation der Folgen
By: Günter Wallraff
4.03
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
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"Ale trzeba się przebrać, by zdemaskować społeczeństwo, trzeba oszukać i zmylić, by dotrzeć do prawdy."-Günter Wallraff, Ganz unten: Mit einer Dokumentation der Folgen
21. The World as Will and Representation
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
4.26
Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition
The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more
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