Postmodern Fables
By: Jean-François Lyotard
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This latest offering from one of the most important philosophers of our time is a collection of fif…
Want to Read"My professor, he reminded us of Kant: to think by oneself, to think in accordance with oneself. Today they say that's logocentric, not politically correct. Streams must flow in the right direction so that they may converge. Why all this cultural bustling? Just to assure oneself that everyone is speaking of the same thing. Of what? Of Otherness."-Jean-François Lyotard, Postmodern Fables
"My professor, he reminded us of Kant: to think by oneself, to think in accordance with oneself. Today they say that's logocentric, not politically correct. Streams must flow in the right direction so that they may converge. Why all this cultural bustling? Just to assure oneself that everyone is speaking of the same thing. Of what? Of Otherness."-Jean-François Lyotard, Postmodern Fables
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. Cosmic Pessimism
By: Eugene Thacker
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
"We're doomed." So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of… read more
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3. 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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4. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more
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5. 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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- fiction
6. Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972–1977
By: Félix Guattari , Sylvère Lotringer
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The stock market is cert… read more
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- philosophy
7. Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solita… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Min kamp 3 (Min kamp #3)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.97
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
MIN KAMP 3 er en roman om barndom. En familie pa fire, mor, far og to drenge flytter til et hus i e… read more
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11. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
12. 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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13. The Accursed Share 1: Consumption
By: Georges Bataille , Robert Hurley
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utilit… read more
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14. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
15. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
16. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
17. 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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18. Being Ecological
By: Timothy Morton
3.55
Format: 230 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P… read more
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"When you see evil as a thing apart from yourself "over there," you can fly a plane into it or destroy it with a powerful bomb. You can justify murder. Evil is the gaze that sees evil as a thing apart…"-Timothy Morton, Being Ecological
"Maybe beauty is death, in a way, just like the decadent aesthetes used to say. It's a reminder that things are fragile, because when one thing envelopes another thing, that other thing might be overw…"-Timothy Morton, Being Ecological
"Perhaps indifference itself is pointing to a way to care for humans and nonhumans in a less violent way- simply allowing them to exist, like pieces of paper in your hand, like a story you might appre…"-Timothy Morton, Being Ecological
"The idea that there are multiple worlds because there are multiple lifeforms and that no one world or scale is the "right" one means that efficiency is only efficient from a particular standpoint. Fo…"-Timothy Morton, Being Ecological
19. Postmodern Fables
By: Jean-François Lyotard
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This latest offering from one of the most important philosophers of our time is a collection of fif… read more
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"My professor, he reminded us of Kant: to think by oneself, to think in accordance with oneself. Today they say that's logocentric, not politically correct. Streams must flow in the right direction so…"-Jean-François Lyotard, Postmodern Fables
