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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFirst as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Slavoj Zizek · 166 pages
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] o
The Politics of Obedience and Etienne de La Boetie: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Etienne de La Boetie, Paul Bonnefon · 150 pages
Why Not Socialism?
Gerald A. Cohen · 96 pages
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, for example, campers wouldn't dream of charging each other to use
The Prince & The Art of War
Oliver Francis, Niccolo Machiavelli · 360 pages
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen · 350 pages
On Violence
Hannah Arendt · 106 pages
El término «violencia», en su sentido más elemental, refiere al daño ejercido sobre las personas por parte de otros seres humanos. Los experimentos totalitarios del siglo xx ampliaron este uso de la violencia, a una escala y una intensidad inéditas en la historia de la humanidad, y es en este contexto donde cabe encuadrar esta obra perenne de Hannah Arendt. Para la filosofía política, la violencia
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 243 pages
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
Thomas Cathcart · 196 pages
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
John N. Gray · 256 pages
Utopian ideologies of the last century rejected traditional faiths and claimed to be based in science. They were actually secular versions of the myth of Apocalypse - the belief in a world-changing event that brings history, with all its conflicts, to an end. This text argues that the death of Utopia does not mean peace.
Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
Reinhold Niebuhr · 284 pages
"Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discusses the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the realities of collective power, and, ultimately, how individual morality can overcome social immo
The Prince and The Discourses
Niccolo Machiavelli · 540 pages
The career and thought of the sixteenth-century political philosopher are traced in an introductory essay to his most famous works.
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Judith Butler · 208 pages
"Frames of War begins where Butler's Precarious Lives left off: on the idea that we cannot grieve for those lost lives that we never saw as lives to begin with. In this age of CNN-mediated war, the lives of those wretched populations of the earth -- the refugees; the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture; the immigrants virtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement -- ar
Carl Schmitt
William E. Scheuerman · 370 pages
This is the first full-length study in English of twentieth-century Germany's most influential authoritarian right-wing political theorist, Carl Schmitt, that focuses on the central place of his attack on the liberal rule of law. This is also the first book in any language to devote substantial attention to Schmitt's subterranean influence on some of the most important voices in political thought
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 490 pages
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
Karl R. Popper · 364 pages
Selected Writings
Karl Marx · 625 pages
Kenneth Winkler's deft abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised. His insightful introduction provides the reader with both a historical and a philosophical context in whic
The Social Contract and Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. Cole, P.D. Jimack · 287 pages