The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
8 best books like The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens (Seyla Benhabib): The Origins of Totalitarianism, Rabbit, Run, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Nicomachean Ethics, The Elementary Particles, The Joy of Life
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European...
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1407247425 |
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best Novels
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521626951 |
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140449493 |
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
| Author | Michel Houellebecq |
| ISBN | 0375727019 |
Brilliant, caustic, comic, and severe,
The Elementary Particles
is an unflinching look at a modern world plagued by consumerism, materialism, and unchecked scientific experimentation.
An international bestseller and controversial literary phenomenon that drew immediate comparison...
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 1595690476 |
Pauline Quenu, the daughter of shopkeepers in the Parisian business district Les Halles (see The Fat and the Thin, aka The Belly of Paris), is taken in by relatives on the coast of Normandy following the death of her parents. There, Pauline - kind and open-minded - is confronted with a gout-plagued host,...
