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The Nature of Rationality

7 best books like The Nature of Rationality (Robert Nozick): Cat's Cradle, The Left Hand of Darkness, Surface Detail, Die Physiker, Success: Three Years in the Life of a Province, Tristan, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

Cat's Cradle
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN0140285601
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For...
The Left Hand of Darkness
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must...
Surface Detail
AuthorIain M. Banks
ISBN0316123404
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without...
Die Physiker
AuthorFriedrich Dürrenmatt
Möbius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefährliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft und Politik verhindern und täuscht darum vor, geisteskrank zu sein, damit er in einer Klinik verschwinden und die gewünschte Kooperation (oder Kollaboration) mit der Macht boykottieren...
Success: Three Years in the Life of a Province
AuthorLion Feuchtwanger
ISBN0848240553
An enthralling roman à clé depicting the rise of Nazi-ideology in Germany.

Martin Krueger, a museum director in Munich, has become quite unpopular and some people would like to be rid of him. Consequently, the lawsuit against him does not turn out to his favor. However, his friends keep fighting...
Tristan
AuthorThomas Mann
ISBN3150064317

The Magic Mountain in a nutshell

This short novella, that Thomas Mann wrote at the tender age of twenty-seven, already contains quite a few themes from his later "big" work.

In both cases...

... the story takes place in a remote sanatorium for lung diseases;
... different...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
AuthorDouglas Murray
ISBN1635579988
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.

In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
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