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by (shelved 18 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,324 ratings — published 1939

by (shelved 15 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.41 — 379 ratings — published 1933

by (shelved 9 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.61 — 248 ratings — published 1996

by (shelved 7 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.88 — 91 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 6 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.29 — 291 ratings — published 1938

by (shelved 5 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,647 ratings — published 1953

by (shelved 5 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.08 — 36 ratings — published 1946

by (shelved 5 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.00 — 137 ratings — published 1921

by (shelved 5 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,817 ratings — published 1980

by (shelved 4 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.16 — 97 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.03 — 34 ratings — published

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.46 — 41 ratings — published 1956

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.66 — 68 ratings — published 2000

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.60 — 102 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.52 — 48 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,684 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,059 ratings — published 1979

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,890 ratings — published

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,457 ratings — published 2002

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,980 ratings — published 1957

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,408 ratings — published 1994

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.67 — 21 ratings — published 1990

by (shelved 3 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.17 — 24 ratings — published 1980

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.08 — 173 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1989

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.65 — 20 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,474 ratings — published 1971

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.48 — 102 ratings — published 1994

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.06 — 36 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.03 — 110 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.64 — 773 ratings — published 1904

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.59 — 2,312 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.42 — 12 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.68 — 119 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.40 — 15 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.96 — 48 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 2.50 — 10 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,417 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,358 ratings — published 1969

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,417 ratings — published 1994

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.30 — 103 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.03 — 122 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 1991

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,215 ratings — published 1953

by (shelved 2 times as semantics)
avg rating 3.79 — 77 ratings — published 1976
“Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.”
― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
“A society that doesn’t understand the meaning of words will not recognize the theft of meaning.”
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