Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty
By: Giorgio Agamben
3.82
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty , Agamben investigates the r…
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
By: Leon Trotsky
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Why fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where social democratic or Stalinist partie… read more
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3. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
4. Orestes
By: Euripides , John Peck , Frank Nisetich
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the… read more
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5. Eugénie Grandet
By: Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabi… read more
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"Misery begets equality."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"[...] ironia este însușirea fundamentală a providenței"-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"Bilgisi arttıktan sonra, erdem de günah kadar hesap yapar."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
"این نقطه اشتراک زن ها و فرشته هاست. رنج بشریت مال آن هاست."-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
6. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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7. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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9. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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10. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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11. 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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12. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Hallward
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agen… read more
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13. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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14. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
15. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
16. Life Death
By: Jacques Derrida
4.14
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
One of Jacques Derrida’s richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs… read more
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17. Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty
By: Giorgio Agamben
3.82
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty , Agamben investigates the r… read more
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18. The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
By: Michael Mann
4.34
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This is the first part of a three-volume work on the nature of power in human societies. In it, Mic… read more
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"The history of Rome is the most fascinating historical laboratory available to sociologists. It provides a 700-year stretch of written records and archaeological remains."-Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
