Books like Philosophical Explanations
12 books with a reading profile close to Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick. Deep, contemplative and open-ended; a demanding read.
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The Plague of Fantasies
by Slavoj Žižek
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
Slavoj Žižek examines the structural role of fantasy in mediating the gap between digital abstraction and social reality.
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Phenomenology of Spirit
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
Hegel traces the progression of human consciousness from basic sensory certainty to the state of absolute knowing.
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Undoing Gender
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
Judith Butler addresses the political and social conditions that define which lives are recognized as human.
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Critique of Pure Reason
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Kant investigates the limits of human cognition by distinguishing between what we perceive through the senses and things as they exist independently of observation.
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The Struggle for Recognition
by Axel Honneth
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
Axel Honneth constructs a social theory centered on the premise that human identity depends on successful interaction within three distinct spheres of recognition: love, rights, and solidarity.
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Being and Time
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time investigates the fundamental question of what it means to be by analyzing the specific structure of human existence, which he terms Dasein.
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Local Knowledge
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
In this collection of essays, Clifford Geertz argues that human thought is fundamentally tied to specific cultural settings rather than universal abstract laws.
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On Free Choice of the Will
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
In this dialogue, Augustine investigates the origin of evil and the mechanics of human volition.
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Being and Nothingness
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Jean-Paul Sartre argues that human existence is defined by a fundamental gap between the conscious self, or being-for-itself, and the inert world of objects, known as being-in-itself.
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Friedrich Nietzsche challenges the evolution of Western ethics by tracing the psychological origins of good and evil.
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After Virtue
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
Alasdair MacIntyre argues that contemporary moral discourse is in a state of terminal disarray because the Enlightenment project failed to provide a rational justification for objective morality.
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The Paradoxes of Art
by Alan Paskow
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, academic
In "The Paradoxes of Art," Alan Paskow addresses the ontological status of fictional entities and why humans feel genuine emotions toward characters they know do not exist.
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