The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
7 best books like The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Axel Honneth): The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Vampire Armand, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Human Condition, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Between Past and Future, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
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...
| Author | Anne Rice |
| ISBN | 0345434803 |
In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0143039881 |
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0226025985 |
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist...
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0143104810 |
Arendt’s penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words...
| Author | Charles Taylor |
| ISBN | 0674824261 |
In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest...
