Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
By: Giorgio Agamben
3.91
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the w…
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
3. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
4. The Waste Books
By: R.J. Hollingdale , Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
4.16
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an ex… read more
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"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
5. Sodom and Gomorrah
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock
4.33
Format: 557 pages, Paperback
Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more
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"He lives at Balbec?"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختناش مشکلتر است"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازهای برخوردا میکند"-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
6. 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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7. Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
By: Gilles Deleuze , John Rajchman , Anne Boyman
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, w… read more
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8. The Kingdom of God Is Within You
By: Constance Garnett , Leo Tolstoy
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Banned in Russia, Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within Youwas deemed a threat to church and state… read more
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9. 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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10. After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
By: Alain Badiou , Quentin Meillassoux , Ray Brassier
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of ph… read more
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11. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more
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12. Primeval and Other Times
By: Olga Tokarczuk , Antonia Lloyd-Jones
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Timeswas awarded the Koscielski Foundation Prize in 199… read more
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13. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
By: Alan Sokal , Jean Bricmont
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Textparodying the sc… read more
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14. 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
15. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
16. El fraude del arte contemporáneo
By: None
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Con su trayectoria, la autora se enfrenta con obras que, al ilustrar con transparencia la naderia, … read more
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17. Quando muori resta a me
By: Zerocalcare
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more
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- italian literature
18. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
19. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
By: Bruno Latour
3.77
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty yea… read more
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"Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist."-Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
20. Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
By: Giorgio Agamben
3.91
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the w… read more
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21. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
