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Essays37
German Literature37
Literary & Classics37
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Philosophy23
Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality23
History, Politics & Society16
Classics14
Germany10

Biography & Memoir8

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The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer
4.05 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.23 average rating, · 10.9k ratings
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Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum
Fatma Aydemir
4.49 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats
Margarete Stokowski
4.26 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno
4.24 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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Basic Writings
Martin Heidegger
4.07 average rating, · 5.2k ratings
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Unlearn Patriarchy
Lisa Jaspers
4.20 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Hässlichkeit
Moshtari Hilal
4.37 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.22 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Scheiß auf Selflove, gib mir Klassenkampf. Eine neue Kapitalismuskritik
Jean-Philippe Kindler
4.08 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Aesthetic Theory
Theodor W. Adorno
4.14 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Untimely Meditations
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.11 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
Byung-Chul Han
4.11 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Ich denk, ich denk zu viel
Nina Kunz
4.25 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
Martin Heidegger
4.15 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
Mark Twain
4.12 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
Rainer Maria Rilke
4.11 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Zuhause: Die Suche nach dem Ort, an dem wir leben wollen
Daniel Schreiber
4.20 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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The Forest Passage
Ernst Jünger
4.07 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Nüchtern
Daniel Schreiber
4.19 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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My Prizes: An Accounting
Thomas Bernhard
4.03 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche
Stefan Zweig
4.05 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
Joseph Roth
4.04 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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