Hartmut Rosa's Books, Ranked: Acceleration, Resonance and the Good Life
Hartmut Rosa's books ranked, from Social Acceleration and Resonance to The Uncontrollability of the World and Democracy Needs Religion, with a reading order.
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The Best Books on Beauty, Ranked: Philosophy From Scarry to Byung-Chul Han
The best philosophy books on beauty, ranked: Elaine Scarry, Alexander Nehamas, Byung-Chul Han, Roger Scruton, Arthur Danto, C. Thi Nguyen and more.
Martha Nussbaum's Books, Ranked: From The Fragility of Goodness to The Republic of Love
Martha Nussbaum's books ranked, from The Fragility of Goodness and Upheavals of Thought to Creating Capabilities, Justice for Animals and her 2026 book on opera, The Republic of Love.
The Society of the Spectacle and After: The 8 Best Books on Spectacle, Ranked
The best books on Guy Debord's society of the spectacle, ranked: Debord himself, McKenzie Wark, Rancière, Baudrillard, Byung-Chul Han and Jonathan Crary's Scorched Earth.
Accelerationism Explained: The 10 Best Books, Ranked
The best books on accelerationism ranked, from Nick Land's Fanged Noumena and the #Accelerate reader to Inventing the Future, Xenofeminism and Vincent Lê's Unknown Lands.
Alain Badiou's Books, Ranked: From Being and Event to A Political Life
Alain Badiou's books ranked, from Being and Event and Logics of Worlds to Ethics, Saint Paul, The Immanence of Truths and his 2026 memoir, A Political Life.
Alenka Zupančič's Books, Ranked (Plus the Best of the Ljubljana School)
Alenka Zupančič's books ranked, from Ethics of the Real and The Odd One In to What Is Sex? and Disavowal (2024), plus essential books by Mladen Dolar and Samo Tomšič.
The Best Books on Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Ranked: Desire, Capitalism and the Real
The best books on Lacanian theory ranked, from Žižek's How to Read Lacan and Bruce Fink to Joan Copjec, Paul Verhaeghe and Todd McGowan's Self-Sabotage (2026).
Catherine Malabou's Books, Ranked: Plasticity, the Brain and Beyond
Catherine Malabou's books ranked, from The Future of Hegel and What Should We Do with Our Brain? to Ontology of the Accident, Morphing Intelligence and Formations (2026).
Kohei Saito and the Degrowth Shelf: The 10 Best Books, Ranked
The best degrowth books ranked, from Kohei Saito's Slow Down and Capital from Zero (2026) to Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Kate Soper and Tim Jackson.