Books like The Indivisible Remainder
12 books with a reading profile close to The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek. Deep and open-ended; a demanding read.
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Local Knowledge
Also deep and open-ended · 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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Living in the End Times
by Slavoj Žižek
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Slavoj Žižek uses Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—to categorize the global response to what he identifies as the terminal crisis of contemporary capital…
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Michel Foucault challenges the repressive hypothesis, which argues that Western society has silenced talk of sex since the Victorian era.
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The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle provides a technical examination of the Stagirite’s surviving corpus, emphasizing the integration of philological precision with philosophical analysis.
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The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Guy Debord analyzes the shift from a world of direct living to a landscape of mere representation.
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Being There
by Andy Clark
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Andy Clark argues that human intelligence does not reside solely within the skull but emerges from the coordination of brain, body, and environment.
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The Construction of Social Reality
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
John Searle details how human beings transform physical objects into institutional facts through collective intentionality.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
Douglas Hofstadter explains how self-referential systems produce conscious intelligence through a framework of strange loops.
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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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After Virtue
Also deep and open-ended · 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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Philosophy in a Time of Terror
by Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, academic
This volume documents individual dialogues between Giovanna Borradori and philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida conducted shortly after the September 11 attacks.
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