Postmodernity and Its Discontents
By: Zygmunt Bauman
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
If, as Freud postulated, modern society assails man's freedom by repressing his sexual expression, …
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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
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. 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
3. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
3.97
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more
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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
4. Identity
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which th… read more
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- philosophy
5. 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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6. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
7. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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8. How to Write a Thesis
By: Umberto Eco , Caterina Mongiat Farina , Geoff Farina , None
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Ital… read more
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9. Cultural Studies. Theory and Practice
By: Chris Barker
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Praise for the First Edition This is the best general textbook that has been written on cultural st… read more
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10. Women Who Run With the Wolves
By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
4.13
Format: 537 pages, Paperback
Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more
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"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"Failure is a greater teacher than success"-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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12. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
13. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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14. 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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15. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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16. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
17. 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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18. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- sociology
19. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
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- sociology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
20. Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
By: John Gray
3.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The author of Straw Dogs , famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusi… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Morality has many charms. What could be more captivating than a vision of everlasting justice? Yet visions of justice are as immutable as styles in shoes."-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"All these philosophies(Stoicism,Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism)have a common failing. They imagine life can be ordered by human reason. Either the Mind can devise a way of life that is secure from loss ,or…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"Cats have no need of philosophy. Obeying their nature, they are content with the life it gives them. In humans, on the other hand, discontent with their nature seems to be natural. With predictably t…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"Instead of being a sign of their inferiority, the lack of abstract thinking among cats is a mark of their freedom of mind. Thinking in generalities slides easily into a superstitious faith in languag…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
21. Postmodernity and Its Discontents
By: Zygmunt Bauman
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
If, as Freud postulated, modern society assails man's freedom by repressing his sexual expression, … read more
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