10 must-read philosophy books like The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience by Vivian Sobchack

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The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

By: Vivian Sobchack

3.88

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making s…

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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)

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2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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3. Death of a Discipline

By: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

3.65

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of … read more

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4. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

By: Jane Bennett

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In Vibrant Matterthe political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and … read more

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  • philosophy

5. Post-Cinematic Affect

By: Steven Shaviro

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st ce… read more

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  • philosophy
  • film
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6. The Interpretation of Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud

3.86

Format: 136 pages,

The Interpretation of Dreams 1st appeared in German in 11/1899 as Die Traumdeutung (publisher postd… read more

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  • philosophy

7. The Virtual Life of Film

By: D.N. Rodowick

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

As almost (or, truly, virtually) every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital t… read more

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8. The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more

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9. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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10. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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11. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

12. The Martian Chronicles

By: Ray Bradbury

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more

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13. The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this herald… read more

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14. Gehen

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.94

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Auf regelmäßigen Spaziergängen berichtet Oehler, der früher mit Karrer ging, einem Dritten, warum K… read more

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"We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

"There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

"The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

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15. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

By: Kathryn Yusoff

4.04

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff.… read more

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  • philosophy
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16. Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Pelican Books)

By: Graham Harman

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinfor… read more

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  • philosophy
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17. The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

By: Vivian Sobchack

3.88

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • film

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