Knowledge of Life (Forms of Living)
By: Georges Canguilhem
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdi…
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. Nietzsche and Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson
4.20
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and P… read more
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"Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence."-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we a…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
3. An Introduction to Metaphysics
By: Henri Bergson , T.E. Hulme , Thomas A. Goudge
3.90
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction à la Métaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson (p… read more
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"De diez errores políticos, nueve consisten simplemente en creer todavía verdadero lo que ha cesado de serlo."-Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
"Either there is no philosophy possible, and all knowledge of things is a practical knowledge aimed at the profit to be drawn from them, or else philosophy consists in placing oneself within the objec…"-Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
"But this metaphysics, like this science, has enfolded its deeper life in a rich tissue of symbols, forgetting something that, while science needs symbols for its analytical development, the main obje…"-Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
4. The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)
By: Martin Heidegger , Albert Hofstadter
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1982 “In Albert Hofstadter’s excellent translation, we can… read more
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"All the propositions of ontology are Temporal propositions. Their truths unveil structures and possibilities of being in the light of Temporality. All ontological propositions have the character of T…"-Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)
"It is wrong to oppose to objects an isolated ego-subject, without seeing in the Dasein the basic constitution of being-in-the-world; but it is equally wrong to suppose that the problem is seen in pri…"-Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)
"Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine; it only gives expression to the …"-Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)
"Today, when philosophizing is so barbarous, so much like a St. Vitus' dance, as perhaps in no other period in the cultural history of the West, and when nevertheless the resurrection of metaphysics i…"-Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy)
5. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more
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6. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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7. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.95
Format: 161 pages,
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Madness, sexuality, power, know… read more
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8. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
9. Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama
By: Heinrich von Kleist , Maurice Sendak , Joel Agee
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state… read more
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10. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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11. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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12. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
By: Julia Kristeva , Leon S. Roudiez
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names a… read more
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13. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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14. Phenomenology of Perception
By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Colin Smith
3.62
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Together with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period and … read more
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15. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.13
Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more
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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
16. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more
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17. 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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18. Difference and Repetition
By: Gilles Deleuze
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Difference and Repetition, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be consi… read more
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19. Time and Free Will
By: Henri Bergson
3.96
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1913 edition by George Allen & Co., Ltd., Lo… read more
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"[W]ithin our ego, there is succession without mutual externality; outside the ego, in pure space, mutual externality without succession."-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
"[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state."-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
"The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in real…"-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
20. Knowledge of Life (Forms of Living)
By: Georges Canguilhem
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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