The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living
By: Mari Ruti
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Should we feel inadequate for failing to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is such an existe…
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
3. 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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- theory
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
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. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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- philosophy
6. The Psychoses 1955-1956
By: Jacques Lacan , Jacques-Alain Miller , Russell Grigg
3.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inesc… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- theory
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
By: Alice Miller , None
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
8. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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10. Postscript on the Societies of Control
By: Gilles Deleuze
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
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11. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
By: Theodor W. Adorno , None
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more
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12. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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- philosophy
- contemporary
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
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. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such… read more
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15. Verslaafd aan liefde
By: Jan Geurtz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Verslaafd aan liefdetoont Jan Geurtz dat onze zoektocht naar liefde en erkenning voortkomt uit e… read more
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16. 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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17. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By: Michael Pollan
3.72
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
18. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- theory
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
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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- theory
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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. Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.89
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from … read more
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- psychoanalysis
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
21. Gender Without Identity
By: Avgi Saketopoulou
4.48
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Gender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Ro… read more
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- theory
- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
- psychology
22. Enjoyment Right & Left
By: Todd McGowan
4.28
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to gras… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
23. El hombre de las ratas
By: Sigmund Freud
3.94
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
"Una pulsión erótica y una sublevación contra ella, un (todavía no obsesivo) deseo, un (ya obsesivo… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
- psychology
24. Manuale di autodistruzione. Perché dobbiamo bere, sanguinare, ballare e amare di più
By: Marian Donner
3.63
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Il mondo è degli anticonformisti, dei sognatori, di chi riesce a liberare le potenzialità nascoste.… read more
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- nonfiction
25. The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living
By: Mari Ruti
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Should we feel inadequate for failing to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is such an existe… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- theory
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- self help
26. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
By: Jacques Lacan
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psycho… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- theory
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"L'unica cosa di cui si possa essere colpevoli è di aver ceduto sul proprio desiderio"-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
"From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire (Seminar 7, 319)"-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
"My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing."-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
"The 'fool' is an innocent, a simpleton, but truths issue from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue of the fact that this 'fool' is sometimes clothed in the insignia of the j…"-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
27. Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
By: Avgi Saketopoulou
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Radical alternatives to consent and trauma. Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with… read more
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- theory
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
28. The Plague
By: Jacqueline Rose
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your l… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
29. Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (Diaeresis)
By: Richard Boothby
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A radical reinterpretation of the origin of religion through a psychoanalytic theorization of the u… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
30. History Beyond Trauma
By: Françoise Davoine
4.10
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private pra… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
- psychology
31. Autonomie. Een zelfhulpgids
By: Miriam Rasch
3.49
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Ruim tweehonderd jaar geleden riep de Duitse filosoof Immanuel Kant de mens op zich te bevrijden va… read more
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- philosophy
