12 best-selling theory books like Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Franz Kafka, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio…

If you liked the theory plot in Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Franz Kafka, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."

-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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3. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Cover of The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley, Zlatko Wurzberg

4. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley , Zlatko Wurzberg

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original Fre… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
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  • france
"But, then, what is philosophy today—philosophical activity, I mean—if it is not the critical work that thought brings to bear on itself? In what does it consist, if not in the endeavor to know how an…"

-Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

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5. El orden del discurso

By: Michel Foucault , Alberto González Troyano

3.39

Format: 440 pages,

En 1970 Michel Foucault sucedio a Jean Hyppolite en el College de France, donde se hizo cargo de la… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
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6. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. Erotism: Death and Sensuality

By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
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10. The Space of Literature

By: Maurice Blanchot , Ann Smock

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporar… read more

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  • literature
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • literary criticism
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11. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more

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  • literature
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • literary criticism
Cover of Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault, Richard Howard, José Teixeira Coelho Netto

12. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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13. The Death of the Author

By: Roland Barthes

4.00

Format: 126 pages,

"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • france
  • literary criticism
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14. A Universal History of Iniquity

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals… read more

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15. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

By: Julia Kristeva , Leon S. Roudiez

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names a… read more

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16. 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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17. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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18. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… 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. Manifesto Cyborg

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more

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21. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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  • philosophy
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14 Top philosophy books like Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Franz Kafka, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

Transform Your Habits

Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley , Zlatko Wurzberg

4.07

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Hopscotch

Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Alguien que anda por ahí y otros relatos

Julio Cortázar

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Final del juego

Julio Cortázar

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Cronopios and Famas

Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn

4.39

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