A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
By: Fredric Jameson
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated i…
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1. The Politics of Aesthetics
By: Jacques Rancière , Gabriel Rockhill
3.92
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aestheti… read more
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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. Bergsonism
By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam
4.13
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
What is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant … read more
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"This is the meaning of philosophy, insofar as our condition condemns us to live among badly analyzed composites and to be badly analyzed composites ourselves."-Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism
"Only emotion differs in nature from both intelligence and instinct, from both intelligent individual egoism and quasi-instinctive social pressure. Obviously no one denies that egoism produces emotion…"-Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism
4. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
5. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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6. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon
3.90
Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven sto… read more
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"I have no mouth. And I must scream..."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot"-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
"I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am."-Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
7. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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8. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
9. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
10. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
11. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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12. Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho
By: Samuel Beckett
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting … read more
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13. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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14. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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15. Distant Star
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more
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16. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
17. The Thing Around Your Neck
By: None
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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21. 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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22. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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23. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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24. 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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25. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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26. The Emancipated Spectator
By: Jacques Rancière
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically … read more
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27. The Winter's Tale
By: William Shakespeare
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more
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28. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
29. Eartheater
By: Dolores Reyes
3.61
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young … read more
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"Solo el dolor parece no morir nunca."-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No solo el amor acelera el ritmo cardíaco, también la música"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No se extraña a un hijo, un hermano, una madre o un amigo igual que a otro"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
30. K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
By: Mark Fisher
4.30
Format: 821 pages, Kindle Edition
A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical … read more
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"Assimilation is sometimes the most effective kind of assassination."-Mark Fisher, K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
31. A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
By: Fredric Jameson
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated i… read more
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