19 must-read theory books like Foucault by Gilles Deleuze, Sean Hand, Paul Bove

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Foucault

By: Gilles Deleuze , Sean Hand , Paul Bove

3.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first analysis of Foucault's work by a major philosopher working within the same poststructural…

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1. 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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"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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2. For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

By: Louis Althusser

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought. This is the work in which Louis Alth… read more

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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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"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

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

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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4. The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

By: Baltasar Gracián , Christopher Maurer

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully … read more

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"Be first the master of yourself"

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

"Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks."

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

"The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard."

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

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5. The Guermantes Way

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Format: 619 pages, Paperback

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more

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"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش می‌آید، چون تخیل با توست"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک می‌شناسد"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

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6. 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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  • philosophy
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7. Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more

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"Hell is truth seen too late."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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8. Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger

4.05

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more

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"But “nowhere"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"El ente existente “se"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."

-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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9. 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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10. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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11. This is Not a Pipe

By: Michel Foucault , René Magritte , James Harkness

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene M… read more

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12. Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm

By: Félix Guattari , Paul Bains

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Guattari's final book is a succinct summary of his socio-philosophical outlook. It includes critica… read more

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13. 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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14. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979

By: Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , Graham Burchell

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Michel Foucault's lectures at the College de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and d… read more

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15. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

By: Michel Foucault , None

3.95

Format: 161 pages,

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Madness, sexuality, power, know… read more

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16. The Gift of Death

By: Jacques Derrida , Mark C. Taylor , David Wills

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he contin… read more

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17. 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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18. Foucault

By: Gilles Deleuze , Sean Hand , Paul Bove

3.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first analysis of Foucault's work by a major philosopher working within the same poststructural… read more

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19. Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972–1977

By: Félix Guattari , Sylvère Lotringer

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The stock market is cert… read more

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20. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

By: Michel Foucault

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more

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21. The Anti-Christ

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , H.L. Mencken

3.68

Format: 420 pages,

Monumento de escandalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre postuma del inquieta… read more

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22. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

By: Michael Hardt , Antonio Negri

4.11

Format: None pages,

In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified… read more

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23. Hatred of Democracy

By: Jacques Rancière , None

3.19

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jacques Ranciere was a student of Althusser before he famously turned against his mentor; now, he's… read more

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24. 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

25. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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26. Phenomenology of Perception

By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Colin Smith

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Together with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period and … read more

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27. 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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28. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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29. 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

30. 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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Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

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Louis Althusser

3.93

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

4.10

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4.18

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

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

4.10

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Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

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