9 best-selling philosophy books like Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive by Julie Reshe

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Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive

By: Julie Reshe

4.33

Format: 155 pages, Hardcover

This book offers a radical alternative to the positive orientation of popular psychology. This posi…

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1. Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference

By: Bruce Fink

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in lif… read more

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"Now Lacan comments that our fixation on physical beauty is a lure, illusion, or mirage, insofar as it turns our eyes away from death. We seek some sort of immortality in the perfection of the human f…"

-Bruce Fink, Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference

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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

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3. Tears and Saints

By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

4.10

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically comm… read more

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"All twilights are on my side."

-Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

"Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity."

-Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

"Fericirea noastră, a modernilor, este că ne-am descoperit infernul în suflet."

-Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

"There are hearts into which even God cannot look without losing his innocence."

-Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

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4. The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within

By: Mari Ruti

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

The Singularity of Beingpresents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irrep… read more

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5. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

By: Michel Foucault , None

3.95

Format: 161 pages,

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Madness, sexuality, power, know… read more

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6. The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

By: Darian Leader

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship … read more

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7. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

By: Michel Foucault

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more

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8. Canti

By: Jonathan Galassi , Giacomo Leopardi

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesNotable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first E… read more

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9. Suicide

By: Édouard Levé

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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11. Extinction

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction… read more

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12. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

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"Scoundrels are always sociable."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

13. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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14. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism

By: Alain Badiou , Ray Brassier

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

In this bold and provocative work, French philosopher Alain Badiou proposes a startling reinterpret… read more

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15. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

By: David Benatar

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Better Never to Have Beenargues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into… read more

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16. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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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 World as Will and Representation, Vol 2

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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19. Let's Keep Talking

By: Yael Goldman Baldwin

4.09

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Let's Keep Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes is a collection of original Lacania… read more

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20. Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive

By: Julie Reshe

4.33

Format: 155 pages, Hardcover

This book offers a radical alternative to the positive orientation of popular psychology. This posi… read more

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9 Best nonfiction books like Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive by Julie Reshe

Transform Your Habits

Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference

Bruce Fink

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Tears and Saints

Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within

Mari Ruti

3.44

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14 best-selling classics books like The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer

Transform Your Habits

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

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