What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Just Ideas)
By: Lewis R. Gordon
4.18
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Chall…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
4.30
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays… read more
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"We may, however, grant without argument that religious ideals have always far outrun their very human devotees."-W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
"The World War was primarily the jealous and avaricious struggle for the largest share in exploiting darker races."-W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
"A belief in humanity is a belief in colored men. If the uplift of mankind must be done by men, then the destinies of this world will rest ultimately in the hands of darker nations."-W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
"We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to t…"-W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions)
4. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
5. The Ethics of Ambiguity
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i… read more
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6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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8. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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9. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
10. Happy Days
By: Samuel Beckett
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more
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11. Communion: The Female Search for Love
By: bell hooks
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American… read more
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12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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15. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
16. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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17. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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18. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
19. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
By: None
4.71
Format: None pages,
"No one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-w… read more
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20. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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21. What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Just Ideas)
By: Lewis R. Gordon
4.18
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Chall… read more
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