Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
By: Jonathan Dollimore
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised homosexual acts, Jonathan Dollimor…
Want to Read $ 18.00"Sometimes in life, and commonly in literature, desire undermines our resolve, drives us to obsession, illness, madness, or even death; or splits us into self-division, or contradictory moral evaluation, or wrecks us with the ambivalence of love and hate fused in the same desire."-Jonathan Dollimore, Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
"Sometimes in life, and commonly in literature, desire undermines our resolve, drives us to obsession, illness, madness, or even death; or splits us into self-division, or contradictory moral evaluation, or wrecks us with the ambivalence of love and hate fused in the same desire."-Jonathan Dollimore, Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
"So, of those who have influenced me here’s a few: Ecclesiastes, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud. I don’t know what might connect them unless it be this: in very different ways all see human consciousness as alienated from the very reality which it strives to understand and for some of them that alienation becomes intrinsic to human desire. In a hesitant and incompetent way, I was discovering back then that philosophy was not only more important than the academic study of it allowed, but that as a subject it needed to be turned against the academy which diminished it. That became the basis of everything I subsequently wrote, and if it has had any merit, it’s because it grew out of a deep dissatisfaction with the way the academic world smothered, tamed and domesticated the subjects it controlled."-Jonathan Dollimore, Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
"So, of those who have influenced me here’s a few: Ecclesiastes, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud. I don’t know what might connect them unless it be this: in very different ways all see human consciousness as alienated from the very reality which it strives to understand and for some of them that alienation becomes intrinsic to human desire. In a hesitant and incompetent way, I was discovering back then that philosophy was not only more important than the academic study of it allowed, but that as a subject it needed to be turned against the academy which diminished it. That became the basis of everything I subsequently wrote, and if it has had any merit, it’s because it grew out of a deep dissatisfaction with the way the academic world smothered, tamed and domesticated the subjects it controlled."-Jonathan Dollimore, Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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3. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
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4. Naked Lunch
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3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
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By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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7. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
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10. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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11. The Trial
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3.95
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12. Atonement
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4.06
Format: 663 pages,
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13. Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante And Goethe
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3.30
Format: None pages,
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14. The Communist Manifesto
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3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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3.27
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3.27
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3.27
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
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3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
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20. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
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21. Cock & Bull
By: Will Self
4.00
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22. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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23. Snuff
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.35
Format: None pages,
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24. Just Kids
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4.21
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
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"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
25. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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26. Fight Club
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4.19
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more
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4.17
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"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
28. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
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29. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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4.25
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Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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30. Animal
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.Joan has spent … read more
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"The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had the fear of angering a man. Of not being an amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
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31. Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
By: Jonathan Dollimore
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 decriminalised homosexual acts, Jonathan Dollimor… read more
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"Sometimes in life, and commonly in literature, desire undermines our resolve, drives us to obsession, illness, madness, or even death; or splits us into self-division, or contradictory moral evaluati…"-Jonathan Dollimore, Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
"So, of those who have influenced me here’s a few: Ecclesiastes, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud. I don’t know what might connect them unless it be this: in very different w…"-Jonathan Dollimore, Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
"Never was the two cultures stand-off more apparent than here. In Gunn’s poem, a new neighbour (an outsider) wants them evicted because of their detrimental effect on property prices. She might well h…"-Jonathan Dollimore, Desire: A Memoir (Beyond Criticism)
