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Books like The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
The best books like The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property are The Artist's Way, The War of Art, and Steal Like an Artist. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde is about creativity and gift economies, art and commerce, cultural exchange. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Artist's Way
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Julia Cameron · Self-help
The Artist's Way is Julia Cameron's twelve-week program for recovering and developing creative ability, originally published in 1992 and still widely used in studio groups and classrooms.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - The War of Art
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Steven Pressfield · Self-help
The War of Art is Steven Pressfield's short, blunt manual for anyone who creates — or wants to create — and finds themselves blocked, procrastinating, or unable to start.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Steal Like an Artist
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Austin Kleon · Self-help
Steal Like an Artist is Austin Kleon's short, illustrated guide to the creative process, built around the premise that nothing is truly original — all creative work is built from and inspired by what came before.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Big Magic
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Elizabeth Gilbert · Self-help
Big Magic is Elizabeth Gilbert's manifesto for living a creative life — not as a professional artistic career but as an orientation toward existence.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford · History
Jack Weatherford's argument is that Genghis Khan has been badly misread by history.
Both dig into cultural exchange.
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.
A kindred philosophy read.
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.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Guide to the Good Life
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William Irvine · Philosophy
William Irvine's book is a modern case for reviving Stoic philosophy as a practical guide to living well.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A History of Western Philosophy
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A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy is Bertrand Russell's single-volume account of Western philosophical thought from the pre-Socratics through Aristotle, the Stoics, medieval Scholasticism, the Renaissance, the empiricists and rationalists, Kant, German Idealism, and the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Rulebook for Arguments
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Anthony Weston · Philosophy
A Rulebook for Arguments is Anthony Weston's slim, widely assigned handbook on how to build and judge arguments.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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George Saunders · Philosophy
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is George Saunders's account of the graduate fiction workshop he has taught at Syracuse for over twenty years, organized around seven stories by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Gogol.
A kindred philosophy read.
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Books like The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property: quick answers
What are the best books like The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property?
The best books like The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde are The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, such as creativity and gift economies, art and commerce, cultural exchange.
What should I read after The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property?
A natural next read after The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property is The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. A kindred philosophy read. Other strong choices are The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert.
What books are similar to The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde?
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property centers on creativity and gift economies, art and commerce, cultural exchange. Books with a similar feel include The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
