Books like King Kong théorie
12 books with a reading profile close to King Kong théorie by Virginie Despentes. Deep; a moderate read.
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
Jenny Odell argues that commercial platforms hijack human curiosity to monetize every waking second.
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Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
John Berger examines how the invention of the camera altered the perception of European oil painting by detaching images from their original physical contexts.
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Free Will
by Sam Harris
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
Sam Harris argues that the feeling of conscious agency is a biological illusion.
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Other Minds
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
In this study of evolutionary biology, Peter Godfrey-Smith traces the development of subjective experience by examining the cephalopod nervous system.
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Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Also deep · philosophy, literary
Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov serves as a juror in a murder trial, only to recognize the defendant as Maslova, a woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier.
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The Tyranny of Merit
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
Michael Sandel argues that the modern meritocratic ideal—the belief that success is solely a product of individual talent and effort—has fractured democratic society.
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In Praise of Shadows
Also deep · philosophy, theoretical
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki examines the collision between traditional Japanese aesthetics and Western modernization.
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A Room of One’s Own
Also deep · philosophy, theoretical
Virginia Woolf bases this extended essay on the material conditions required for women to produce literature.
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
In this collection, David Foster Wallace reports on late-twentieth-century American life through dense, footnote-heavy investigations into subcultures and political rhetoric.
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The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
Also deep · philosophy, theoretical
Written as a series of instructional private letters from a senior demon to his novice nephew, Wormwood, this book details the psychological mechanics of spiritual failure.
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The Order of Time
Also deep · analytical, philosophy
Carlo Rovelli dismantles the traditional perception of time as a universal, flowing river.
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