The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
By: Todd May
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader fra…
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1. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
2. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
By: David Graeber
4.21
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the ac… read more
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"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
3. The Ego and Its Own
By: Max Stirner , David Leopold
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more
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"Political liberty,"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"A minha causa é a causa de nada."-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
4. The Soul of Man Under Socialism
By: Oscar Wilde
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues th… read more
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"The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
5. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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6. The Buried Giant
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more
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"Are you still there, Axl?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
7. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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8. The Three Ecologies
By: Félix Guattari
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as… read more
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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10. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
11. Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires … read more
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12. Postscript on the Societies of Control
By: Gilles Deleuze
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
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13. Desert
By: Anonymous
4.23
Format: 166 pages,
A text that plays significantly on the invisible committee's concept of desert and also desertion, … read more
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14. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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15. Anarchism and Other Essays
By: Emma Goldman
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the "notor… read more
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16. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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17. 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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18. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
19. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
20. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
By: Julia Kristeva , Leon S. Roudiez
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names a… read more
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21. Deschooling Society
By: Ivan Illich , None
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. I… read more
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22. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
23. Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
By: David Graeber
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
"If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in t… read more
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24. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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25. Bluebeard
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.06
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more
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"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
26. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
27. The Laugh of the Medusa
By: Hélène Cixous
4.09
Format: None pages,
Cixous is issuing her female readers an ultimatum of sorts: either they can read it and choose to s… read more
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28. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
29. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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30. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
31. The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
By: Todd May
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader fra… read more
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