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Books like Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick is about political philosophy, individual rights, libertarianism. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Open Society and Its Enemies
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper · Philosophy
Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies during World War II, and the wartime context is inseparable from its argument.
Read the summary → - The Republic
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Plato · Philosophy
The Republic is Plato's most ambitious work, a sustained inquiry into the nature of justice staged as a dialogue among Socrates and his companions in Athens.
Read the summary → - Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes · Philosophy
Leviathan, published in 1651 in the aftermath of the English Civil War, is one of the founding texts of modern political philosophy.
Read the summary → - The Road to Serfdom
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F. A. Hayek · Politics
The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, is Friedrich Hayek's argument that central economic planning is incompatible with political freedom and will, regardless of intent, produce a form of totalitarianism.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
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