12 must-read philosophy books like Inner Experience by Georges Bataille, Bruce Boone, Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

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Inner Experience

By: Georges Bataille , Bruce Boone , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign…

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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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"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. 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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  • psychology
  • philosophy
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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

"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

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3. 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
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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4. 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
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. Inner Experience

By: Georges Bataille , Bruce Boone , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign… read more

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  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
  • france
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6. 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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7. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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8. Phaedo

By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Atrocity Exhibition

By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more

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10. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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11. Death Sentence

By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • french literature

12. Manifestoes of Surrealism

By: André Breton , None , Richard Seaver , None

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Manifestoes of Surrealismis a book by Andre Breton, describing the aims, meaning, and political pos… read more

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13. Specters of Marx

By: Jacques Derrida , Peggy Kamuf , None

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic conc… read more

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14. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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15. 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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16. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

By: Anaïs Nin , Gunther Stuhlmann

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves … read more

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17. The Writing of the Disaster

By: Maurice Blanchot , Ann Smock

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century--world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshi… read more

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18. 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

19. 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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20. A Short History of Decay

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more

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21. The Agony of Eros

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.93

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more

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  • theory
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"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

11 best-selling nonfiction books like Inner Experience by Georges Bataille, Bruce Boone, Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

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

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

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Ethics

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

4.10

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Ecce Homo

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

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The Gay Science

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4.11

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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

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Anne Carson

4.00

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