11 must-read theory books like Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Slavoj Žižek

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Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.96

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavo…

"as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency."

-Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

"as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency."

-Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

If you liked the theory plot in Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Slavoj Žižek , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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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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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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. Choice

By: Renata Salecl

3.65

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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3. Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan

By: Alenka Zupančič

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Odd One In: On Comedy

By: Alenka Zupančič

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
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6. Zuckerman Unbound

By: Philip Roth

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the l… read more

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7. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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8. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more

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  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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10. Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely

By: Bruce Fink

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him literally, making the wager that … read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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11. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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  • philosophy
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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12. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

13. Science of Logic

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Most of the major schools of contemporary philosophy, from Marxism to Existentialism, are reactions… read more

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14. Lacan: A Beginner's Guide

By: None

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the wo… read more

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15. Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more

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16. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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17. Economy of the Unlost

By: Anne Carson

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take … read more

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18. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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19. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance

By: Bruce Fink

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Aga… read more

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20. Multiple Choice

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Multiple Choiceis unlike anything I've ever encountered before. . . . Reading this book is a wonde… read more

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21. 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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22. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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23. What IS Sex?

By: Alenka Zupančič

4.25

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual s… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
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  • psychology
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  • nonfiction
"It is perhaps not enough to say that there is no essence of femininity; one could go a step further and say that the essence of femininity is to pretend to be a woman. One is a woman if one carries c…"

-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?

"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningless, no…"

-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?

"... one of the primary tasks of psychoanalysis is to slowly but thoroughly deactive the path of this satisfaction, to render it useless. To produce sex as absolutely and intrinsically meaningsless, n…"

-Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?

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24. Philosophy of Mind

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Mind

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25. 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
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26. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic

By: Maurice J. Meisner

4.07

Format: 587 pages, Paperback

In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensiv… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
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27. Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution

By: Todd McGowan

4.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentie… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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28. The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)

By: Alenka Zupančič

4.29

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context—examining the definitive element that animates his wor… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"It is not about recentering the subject (via the effect of recognition), but about decentering her radically, producing a subjective split in its purest form. The temporal dimension comes into play a…"

-Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)

"The thing (as one) no longer throws its shadow upon another thing; instead, it throws its shadow upon itself, thus becoming, at the same time, the thing and its shadow. When the sun is at its zenith,…"

-Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)

"The other concept of truth in Lacan situates the truth, so to speak, in the midst of reality. Here, the discontinuities, ruptures, standstills, and crises of reality are places or points of its truth…"

-Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)

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29. Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.96

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavo… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • sociology
"as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency."

-Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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30. Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality

By: Suzanne Barnard

3.79

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Suzanne Barnard is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, a clinical psychologis… read more

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  • psychoanalysis

7 Best politics books like Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Slavoj Žižek

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Renata Salecl

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Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

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David Hume

3.94

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René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

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