Theory of Religion
By: Georges Bataille
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought t…
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1. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
2. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
3. Hymns to the Night
By: Novalis , Dick Higgins
4.05
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A… read more
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- philosophy
"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"-Novalis, Hymns to the Night
4. Ignorance
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty… read more
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- philosophy
- france
5. Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist
By: Antonin Artaud , Alexis Lykiard
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Paperback
Translated into English for the first time, this novelized biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emper… read more
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6. The Gay Science
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.11
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
7. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
By: Nick Land
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on… read more
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8. Theory of Religion
By: Georges Bataille
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought t… read more
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- theology
- theory
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- france
- anthropology
9. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
By: Gilles Deleuze , John Rajchman , Anne Boyman
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, w… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- france
11. On the Heights of Despair
By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this b… read more
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- nonfiction
12. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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13. The Trojan Women
By: Euripides , Gilbert Murray
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's i… read more
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14. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more
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15. Amerika
By: Franz Kafka
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more
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16. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more
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17. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
18. Metaphysics
By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more
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19. Waiting for God
By: Simone Weil
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
"My dear father, I have made up my mind to write to you....I have been wondering lately about the w… read more
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20. Justine
By: Marquis de Sade
3.76
Format: 205 pages,
Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, conocido por su titulo de Marques de Sade (Paris, 2 de junio de… read more
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21. Dialoghi con Leucò
By: Cesare Pavese , Sergio Givone
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In quest'opera lungamente maturata, e pubblicata nel 1947, che Pavese riteneva la sua piu important… read more
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22. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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23. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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24. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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25. The Broom of the System
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the Systemstunned critics and m… read more
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26. History and Utopia
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this book, Cioran writes of politics, of history, and of the utopian dream. "A small masterwork … read more
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27. No Exit
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more
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28. Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
By: Cesare Pavese , Cesare Segre , Marziano Guglielminetti , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Iniziato il 6 ottobre 1935 durante i giorni del confino politico, Il mestiere di vivereaccompagna C… read more
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29. El banquero anarquista
By: Fernando Pessoa
3.77
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Vertebrado casi a manera de diálogo socrático inverso. "El banquero anarquista", del poeta portugué… read more
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"...karanlıkları görmek, karanlıklardan ışığı almaktır."-Fernando Pessoa, El banquero anarquista
30. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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31. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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