An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
By: Peter Salmon
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida Who is Jacques …
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more
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3. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
4. Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
By: Edmund Husserl , David Carr
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Paperback
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is imp… read more
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5. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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6. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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7. On Ideology
By: Louis Althusser
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society. The p… read more
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8. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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10. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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11. Slow Man
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident result… read more
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12. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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13. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
14. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In the eighteenth century, medi… read more
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15. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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16. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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17. I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
By: Sue Prideaux
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one o… read more
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18. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
19. The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
By: Nancy Fraser
3.94
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?Across the globe politics as usual ar… read more
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20. An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
By: Peter Salmon
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida Who is Jacques … read more
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21. Ideas
By: Edmund Husserl
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Presents Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in which he seeks to found an a priori science in w… read more
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