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Books like Fields, Factories, and Workshops
Loved Fields, Factories, and Workshops by Peter Kropotkin? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from philosophy, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Sophie's World
A teenager receives mysterious lessons that walk through the whole history of Western philosophy; a story and a course in one.
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The Republic
Socrates argues with Athenian citizens about the nature of justice, the ideal city-state, the philosopher-king, the allegory of the cave, and the forms. Plato's dialogue is the foundational text of Western political philosophy and one of the most influential works of thought ever written.
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The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and inca
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De la division du travail social
"In 1893, a young doctoral student was to publish an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim's The Division
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Plato and Platonism
Plato’s ideas have had an enduring and important impact on philosophy, science, and all people, from the ancient kings to modern day man and to all people in between. He passionately touches on the to
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A Modern Utopia
Imagine a life without worries. You live in a perfect environment untouched by pollution. You have a job to do and play an important role in society. The politicians are watching out for your best int
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A Study of History
A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought.
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Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos
Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos, conocida usualmente como Del sentimiento trágico de la vida, es uno de los más destacados ensayos filosóficos de Miguel de Unamuno,
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Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
"Over a series of elegantly written, engaging essays, the Enquiry examines the experiential and psychological sources of meaning and knowledge, the foundations of reasoning about matters that lie beyo
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State and Revolution
Lenin wrote ‘State and Revolution’ in 1917, while he was hiding from the Russian secret police. The book describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of o