Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
By: Susan Buck-Morss
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Developing the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a collective mental state and a…
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1. 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)
2. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
3. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Joseph Stalin
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
6. Tristes Tropiques
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss , John Weightman , Doreen Weightman
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tristes Tropiquesbegins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
By: Johan Huizinga
3.80
Format: None pages,
Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western soc… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
8. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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9. The Anatomy of Melancholy
By: William H. Gass , Robert Burton
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
10. On the Natural History of Destruction
By: W.G. Sebald
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
W.G. Sebald completed this controversial book before his death in December 2001. On the Natural His… read more
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- history
11. Envy
By: Marian Schwartz , Ken Kalfus , Yury Olesha , Natan Altman
3.71
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Na… read more
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12. Forever Flowing
By: Vasily Grossman , Thomas P. Whitney
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
The novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, who has returned to Russia after thirty years in th… read more
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13. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
By: None
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collap… read more
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14. What Is History?
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Based on The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at University of Cambridge, January-March… read more
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15. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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16. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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17. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
18. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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19. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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20. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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21. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
22. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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23. 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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"[...] 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
24. 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
25. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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- theory
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26. 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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27. The Romance of American Communism
By: Vivian Gornick
4.34
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to Am… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"My father had a sister, Mady, who had married badly and ‘ruined her life.’ Her story was a classic. She had fallen in love before the war with an American adventurer, married him against her family’s…"-Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism
28. Walking. One Step at a Time
By: Erling Kagge
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Placing one foot in front of the other, embarking on the journey of discovery, and experiencing the… read more
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- nonfiction
"Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you gradually stop doing."-Erling Kagge, Walking. One Step at a Time
29. The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan
By: Samo Tomšič
3.84
Format: 248 pages, ebook
A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s workDespite a resurgence of int… read more
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- philosophy
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- nonfiction
30. La historia como campo de batalla: interpretar las violencias del siglo XX
By: Enzo Traverso
4.22
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Enzo Traverso reconstitue de manière magistrale et critique le tableau d'ensemble des mutations qui… read more
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31. Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
By: Susan Buck-Morss
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Developing the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a collective mental state and a… read more
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