The Great Regression

5 best books like The Great Regression (Heinrich Geiselberger): Mythologies, Die Freiheit, frei zu sein, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind, The End of the Ocean, Gegen den Hass

Mythologies

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521506

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way...

Die Freiheit, frei zu sein

Author

Hannah Arendt

»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.«
Was ist Freiheit, und was bedeutet sie uns? Begreifen wir sie nur als die Abwesenheit von Furcht und von Zwängen, oder meint Freiheit

nicht vielmehr auch, sich an gesellschaftlichen Prozessen zu beteiligen,...

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind

Author	Simone Weil
ISBN	0415271029

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1943, the final year of her life, unable to join the resistance movement in France, she worked in London for the Free French government in exile. Here she was commissioned to outline...

The End of the Ocean

Author

Maja Lunde

From the author of the #1 international bestseller and Indie Next Pick The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.

In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire...

Gegen den Hass

Author	Carolin Emcke
ISBN	3103972318

Carolin Emcke, eine der wichtigsten Intellektuellen der Gegenwart, äußert sich in ihrem engagierten Essay ›Gegen den Hass‹ zu den großen Themen unserer Zeit: Rassismus, Fanatismus, Demokratiefeindlichkeit. In der zunehmend polarisierten, fragmentierten Öffentlichkeit dominiert...