Lea Ypi Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Lea Ypi is an author and professor of political theory. Professor @LSEnews from 🇦🇱occasionally writes @guardianopinion NEW BOOKS Free (Penguin Press) The Architectonic of Reason (Oxford University Press)

Eleanor Marx: A Life
Rachel Holmes
@paulmasonnews @meadwaj Pablo Neruda’s is one of my all time favourites. Also recently enjoyed Eleanor Marx by Rachel Holmes.
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Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux
10. Annie Ernaux - Simple Passion What distinguishes true love from mere infatuation? One can only know at the end of life. But in the meantime this book by Ernaux is worth reading to have some parameters.
Paperback, 2003
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov
Here are my ten favourite reads of the year: 1. Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov I started the book with very little sympathy for Oblomov and ended up both identifying and falling in love with him.
Paperback, 2005
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
“As practical,useful and beneficial as an academic career may be for those of average talent, it is superfluous for individually productive natures, for whom it may even develop into a hindrance”- motivational words from Stefan Zweig (The world of yesterday) on my way to work 🤔
Paperback, 2013
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Baron Bagge
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
5. Alexander Lernet-Holenia - Baron Bagge One of Zweig's favourite books, Baron Bagge is a painful account of the absurdity of war, the border between life and death, and love as a survival exercise.
Paperback, 2022
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Lea Ypi
My Kant book (entitled "The Architectonic of Pure Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in the Critique of Pure Reason" - OUP 2021) is also part of this offer! It was recently awarded five stars by my son on Goodreads. https://twitter.com/OUPPhilosophy/status/1551517910203437057
Hardcover, 2022
$97.00$72.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Lea Ypi
I’m utterly thrilled that FREE is on this amazing shortlist for the ‘22 #RLSOndaatje Prize awarded by @RSLiterature to a book which best evokes the spirit of a place! The place is Albania, and I hope this will inspire many readers to discover it!
Hardcover, 2022
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Lea Ypi
Today @wendemuseum at noon (Pacific time) 🌹https://t.co/tVdMWRUr7T
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson
I loved this review of FREE alongside Maggie Nelson’s ON FREEDOM by @lindakinstler in the first issue of @european_review which includes the whole story of the half-rooster (in Albanian: gjysmagjeli) 🌹 https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-prodigal-half-rooster/en https://t.co/YfLILKruIo
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
Clarice Lispector
First day in the office & what better way to start the academic year than these pages from the new Clarice Lispector Too Much of Life: “Sometimes, we start to play with thinking and, quite unexpectedly, the plaything begins to play with us. This is not good. But it’s fruitful.” https://t.co/OP7Q0XUmwp
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book