The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Themes in the Social Sciences)
By: Jack Goody
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Current theories and views on the differences in the 'mind' of human societies depend very much on …
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1. Human Universals
By: Donald E. Brown
3.78
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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3. Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes
By: Martin Heidegger , Hans-Georg Gadamer
3.90
Format: 115 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Esta nueva versión se hace implícitamente cargo del debate sobre el arte y sobre el propio Heidegge… read more
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"Tendríamos que aprender a reconocer que las cosas mismas son los lugares y que no se limitan a pertenecer a un lugar."-Martin Heidegger, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes
4. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
6. The Willows
By: Algernon Blackwood
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more
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7. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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8. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
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9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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10. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
By: Sady Doyle
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Themes in the Social Sciences)
By: Jack Goody
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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12. Theories of Primitive Religion
By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
3.68
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
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13. Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion
By: Thomas Nail
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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