11 Top nonfiction books like On Revolution by Hannah Arendt

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On Revolution

By: Hannah Arendt

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in On Revolution by Hannah Arendt , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg, Κώστας Βρετός

1. Reform or Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

Cover of The Wretched of the Earth by Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Philcox, Frantz Fanon, Homi K. Bhabha

2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

Cover of Second Treatise of Government by John Locke, Crawford Brough Macpherson, C.B. MacPherson

3. Second Treatise of Government

By: John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

The Second Treatiseis one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the mos… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
Cover of Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Nörr, Edmund Jephcott

4. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

5. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky

3.86

Format: 302 pages,

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
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  • nonfiction
  • political science
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6. On Revolution

By: Hannah Arendt

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Arendt's On Revolution book and Hannah Arendt's On Revolution

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
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7. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. The End of History and the Last Man

By: Francis Fukuyama

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more

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9. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more

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10. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • political science
  • sociology
"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

11. The Discourses

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more

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12. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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13. Two Treatises of Government

By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more

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14. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more

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15. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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16. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

By: John J. Mearsheimer

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more

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17. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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18. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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Cover of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk

19. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
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20. Pessoa: A Biography

By: Richard Zenith

4.54

Format: 1088 pages, Hardcover

Like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience by Michael S.A. Graziano

21. Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience

By: Michael S.A. Graziano

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to conscio… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Arguably, science is the gradual process by which the cognitive parts of our brains discover the inaccuracies in our deeper, evolutionarily built-in models of the world."

-Michael S.A. Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience

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Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

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4.32

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Second Treatise of Government

John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

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4.22

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3.31

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3.96

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William Egginton

4.28

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4.54

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