9 must-read nonfiction books like Martin Heidegger by George Steiner

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Martin Heidegger

By: George Steiner

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work …

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1. Taras Bulba

By: Nikolai Gogol , David George Hogarth

3.72

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852) "« Voyons, tourne-toi. Dieu, que tu es drôle ! Qu’est-ce que cette r… read more

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"I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away."

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"Our country is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to us. My country is—you! That is my native land, and I bear that country in my heart."

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to …"

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"Ukrayna'nın benim yurdum olduğunu kim söylüyor? Kim, ne adına orayı bana yurt olarak vermiş? Ruhumu okşayan, beni sevgiyle kucaklayan her yer ya da her şey benim yurdumdur. Benim yurdum, varlığım her…"

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

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2. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

By: Oswald Spengler

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • essays
"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

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5. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. W, or the Memory of Childhood

By: Georges Perec , David Bellos

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader in… read more

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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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. Martin Heidegger

By: George Steiner

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work … read more

Similar categories in George Steiner's Martin Heidegger book and George Steiner's Martin Heidegger

  • biography
  • collections
  • philosophy
  • criticism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. The Woman in the Dunes

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

3.89

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more

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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

10. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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11. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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12. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more

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13. The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction

By: John Phillips

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

This book introduces the Marquis de Sade as writer and philosopher to new readers, offering concise… read more

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14. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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15. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

16. 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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17. Contempt

By: Alberto Moravia , Tim Parks , Angus Davidson

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Contemptis a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European l… read more

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18. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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19. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • criticism
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20. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • philosophy
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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21. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

By: Melanie Mitchell

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."

-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

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Oswald Spengler

3.83

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The Trouble with Being Born

Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

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The Complete Essays

Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

4.23

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The Revolt of the Masses

José Ortega y Gasset

4.00

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Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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William Egginton

4.28

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Brian Klaas

4.13

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