Books like Rights of Man
12 books with a reading profile close to Rights of Man by Thomas Paine. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Also deep · history, philosophy
Frantz Fanon analyzes the psychiatric and sociological effects of colonization on both the occupier and the occupied.
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A History of Western Philosophy
Also deep and outward-looking · history, philosophy
Bertrand Russell details the evolution of logical thought from the Pre-Socratics through the rise of logical analysis in the early twentieth century.
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Utilitarianism
Also deep and outward-looking · philosophy, academic
John Stuart Mill defends the Greatest Happiness Principle, asserting that actions are right if they promote pleasure and wrong if they produce pain.
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
David Graeber challenges the standard economic narrative that money evolved to solve the inefficiencies of barter.
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Geopolitics
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
John Agnew analyzes how the spatial distribution of power shifted from the rise of modern states in the sixteenth century to the post-Cold War era.
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Angela Davis argues for the total abolition of the prison system, asserting that incarceration serves as a tool for social control rather than a solution to crime.
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The Federalist Papers
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to advocate for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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C.S. Lewis as philosopher
by David Baggett, Gary R. Habermas
Also deep · philosophy, academic
While C.S.
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paulo Freire
Also deep · philosophy, academic
Paulo Freire argues that traditional education functions as a "banking system" where teachers deposit information into passive students to maintain societal control.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
Also deep · philosophy, academic
Neil Postman argues that the medium of communication determines the quality of public thought.
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