Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenste…
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1. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
By: Pierre Bourdieu , Richard Nice
4.15
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois … read more
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"Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others."-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literatu…"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a …"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
2. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- german literature
- germany
3. 1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts
By: Florian Illies
4.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
1913 Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres Virtuos entfaltet Florian Illies das Panorama eines unv… read more
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- german literature
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- germany
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4. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
By: Stuart Jeffries
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more
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5. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
By: Peter Singer
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual devel… read more
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6. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
By: Ray Monk
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a … read more
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7. Moscow Diary
By: Walter Benjamin
4.06
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veri… read more
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8. Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
By: None
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginnin… read more
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9. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
10. Berlin Childhood around 1900
By: Walter Benjamin
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900rem… read more
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11. H of H Playbook
By: Anne Carson
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox ), H of H Playbook is a… read more
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"M: Fantasy just makes me hungrier."-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
"What's it like to wear an eternal Olympian overall held up by the burning straps of mortal shortfall?"-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
"H of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it."-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
"aH of H: I cannot rise. Too heavy with filth and sin. Th: Give me your hand. H of H: I'll stain you. Th: I'll take it."-Anne Carson, H of H Playbook
12. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
13. 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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"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
14. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- audiobook
15. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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16. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
By: Wolfram Eilenberger
3.92
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenste… read more
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- unfinished
- theory
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17. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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18. Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.01
Format: 240 pages, ebook
During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her… read more
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19. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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20. The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
By: David Edmonds
4.07
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordin… read more
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21. 1913: Was ich unbedingt noch erzählen wollte (1913, #2)
By: Florian Illies
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sie hätten sich gewünscht, dass das Buch ›1913‹ von Florian Illies noch lange nicht zu Ende ist? De… read more
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