Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
10 best books like Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (G.A. Cohen): Infidel, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Critique of Pure Reason, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Meno, This: Becoming Free, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, Three Treatises, German Ideology, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
| Author | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| ISBN | 0743289684 |
One of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the...
| Author | Friedrich Engels |
| ISBN | 0873485793 |
In my opinion, this is a better introduction to Marxism than the Communist Manifesto. The first chapter focuses on utopian socialist who tried to make reforms but ran up against roadblocks of the bourgeoisie, and since it was based on an unscientific view, it lead to a "mish-mash of critical statements,...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521657296 |
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1781), 856 pp. 2nd (B) ed: 1787. [A-edition (Ak. 4:5-252); B-edition (Ak. 3:2-552)]. “Critique of Pure Reason.” Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (Macmillan 1929). Translated by Werner Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett 1996). Translated by Paul...
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385496095 |
Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0915144247 |
Is virtue the same for different people?
Yes, if ‘virtue’ consists in realising the destiny laid out for one before birth by the Self.
That is ‘what’ is the same about it in all people.
The famous ‘ignorance’ argument is laid out by Meno: ‘Those who think bad things benefit...
Doubt-filled spiritual leader and reluctant Grammy-nominated Christian musician Michael Gungor finally let go of his belief in God as he tried to whittle together a god that he could love. Letting go of the stories that defined his identity and value in the world led Gungor and his family on a wild and...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
| Author | Martin Luther |
| ISBN | 0800616391 |
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In these writings Luther tried to frame his ideas in terms...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| Author | Susan Buck-Morss |
| ISBN | 0262523310 |
Developing the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a collective mental state and an analytical concept, Susan Buck-Morss attempts to come to terms with mass dreamworlds at the moment of their passing.
The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia....
| Author | Jonathan Wolff |
| ISBN | 0192805053 |
The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously.
Jonathan Wolff argues that if we detach Marx the...
