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24 titles for readers of Profanations by Giorgio Agamben, selected for shared themes: Essays and Philosophy.

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Profanations — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Select Works Of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence From Animal Food, His Treatise On The Homeric Cave Of The Nymphs (1823)

Porphyry

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

The President’s Man The Memoirs of Nixon’s Trusted Aide

Dwight Chapin

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

Modern Times Selected Non-fiction

Jean-Paul Sartre

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century — William F. Buckley, JR.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

Mind-energy, Lectures and Essays

Henri Bergson

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

Nature Study By Months, Part 1 For Elementary Grades (1898)

Arthur Clarke Boyden

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

How to Survive America — D.L. Hughley

D. L. Hughley

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

Pastor Claus Laurits Clausen (1921)

R. Andersen

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

Battlegrounds The Fight to Defend the Free World

H. R. McMaster

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#10

Leonard Cohen and Philosophy Various Positions

Jason Holt

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#11

Solomon’s Temple Spiritualized Or Gospel-Light Fetched Out Of The Temple At Jerusalem (1786)

John Bunyan

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#12

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin A Historical Study Of The Fifth Chapter Of Daniel (1893)

John Dyneley Prince

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#13

The Lost Art of Dying Reviving Forgotten Wisdom

L. S. Dugdale

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#14

Select Essays Of Sainte-Beuve: Chiefly Bearing On English Literature (1895)

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#15

Literature and the Conservative Ideal

Mark Zunac

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#16

What Is Art?

Leo Tolstoy

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#17

Good-Bye My Fancy: Second Annex To Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#18

Margaret Thatcher The Autobiography

Margaret Thatcher

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#19

The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim

David Kettler

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#20

On Diet And Regimen In Sickness And Health And On The Interdependence And Prevention Of Diseases And The Diminution Of Their Fatality (1875)

Horace Dobell

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#21

Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#22

The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#23

I’ve Been Thinking

Daniel C. Dennett

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

#24

Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book for Everyone and Nobody

Friedrich Nietzsche

Themes: Essays • Philosophy

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Profanations by Giorgio Agamben. Connected by Essays, Philosophy. Authors featured include Porphyry, Dwight Chapin, Jean-Paul Sartre, William F. Buckley Jr., and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.