18 Top nonfiction books like Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Untimely Meditations

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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1. A Treatise of Human Nature

By: David Hume

3.94

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

-David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

"A man who hides himself, confesses as evidently the superiority of his enemy, as another who fairly delivers his arms."

-David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

"A man who hides himself, confesses as evidently the superiority of his enemy, as another, who fairly delivers his arms."

-David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

"The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about."

-David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. Nietzsche and Philosophy

By: Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and P… read more

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"Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence."

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

"The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest…"

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

"It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we a…"

-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

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5. Fragments

By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more

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"All is flux"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Character is destiny"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"I went in search of myself."

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Man's character is his fate."

-James Hillman, Fragments

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6. Alcibiades I

By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Nicholas Denyer

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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8. Crito

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

5.00

Format: 160 pages, paper

Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more

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9. Theaetetus

By: Plato , Robin Waterfield

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great … read more

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10. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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11. Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life

By: Gilles Deleuze , John Rajchman , Anne Boyman

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, w… read more

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12. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Allan Bloom , Alexandre Kojève , James H. Nichols

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophica… read more

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13. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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  • philosophy
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14. Untimely Meditations

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • 19th century
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

15. Metaphysics

By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more

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16. Philosophical Investigations

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe

3.68

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more

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17. The Fall of Constantinople 1453

By: Steven Runciman

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several wee… read more

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18. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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19. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

20. Alcibiades II

By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett

3.00

Format: None pages,

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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21. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

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"Scoundrels are always sociable."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

22. The Schopenhauer Cure

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius … read more

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23. Charmides

By: Plato

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

A literal translation, allowing the simplicity and vigor of the Greek diction to shine through. read more

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24. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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25. 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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26. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

27. The Face of Another

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis,this classic of postwar Japanese literat… read more

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28. Laches

By: Plato

4.00

Format: None pages,

There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is be… read more

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29. Critique of Judgment

By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more

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30. 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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31. 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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16 best-selling classics books like Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson

4.20

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James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

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Alcibiades I

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4.20

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René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

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Ethics

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

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Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

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