The Aesthetics of Disappearance
By: Paul Virilio
3.86
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his th…
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1. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
By: Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti
4.00
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”pos… read more
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- theory
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
- sociology
"Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and…"-Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
3. 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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- nonfiction
- sociology
"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)
4. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
5. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
By: Gilles Deleuze , Tom Conley
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a B… read more
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- art
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"The city seems to be a labyrinth that can be ordered. The world is an infinite series of curvatures or inflections, and the entire world is enclosed in the soul from one point of view."-Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
6. 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
7. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
8. On Television
By: Pierre Bourdieu , Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
"On Television" exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what… read more
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- social science
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9. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- theory
- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important… read more
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11. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
12. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
13. Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt: Elemente materialistischer Philosophie
By: Robert Pfaller
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
Unsere Kultur hat sich den Zugang zu Glamour, Grosszugigkeit und Genuss versperrt. Wir vermeintlich… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Strangers at Our Door
By: Zygmunt Bauman
4.21
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
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- sociology
15. Platero y yo
By: Juan Ramón Jiménez , Antonio Frasconi
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Juan Ramon Jimenez escribe Platero y yo al volver a su pueblo natal, Moguer, despues de haber pasad… read more
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16. The Box Man
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative f… read more
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17. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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18. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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19. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
By: Jacques Lacan
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized au… read more
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20. Letter to His Father
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more
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21. La mala costumbre
By: Alana S. Portero
4.55
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more
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- contemporary
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre
22. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
23. Quelques mois dans ma vie: Octobre 2022 - Mars 2023
By: Michel Houellebecq
2.59
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Pour la première fois dans ma vie je me sentis traité, absolument, comme l'objet d'un documentaire… read more
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24. Rhizom
By: Gilles Deleuze
4.28
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
„Ihr habt die Wahl zwischen einem letzten Abschied von der Psychoyse, einem rosa Panther, der Gesch… read more
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"Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea."-Gilles Deleuze, Rhizom
25. Radikalisierter Konservatismus: Eine Analyse
By: Natascha Strobl
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Von der Krise der Sozialdemokratie ist allerorten die Rede. Doch auch viele traditionsreiche Mitte-… read more
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26. Prometheus's Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
By: Peter Sloterdijk
3.24
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The stirring speech given by Peter Sloterdijk in Lucerne in October 2022. From time immemorial, hu… read more
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27. The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture
By: Emanuele Coccia
3.88
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even … read more
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- nonfiction
28. Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1: Über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution
By: Günther Anders
4.31
Format: 353 pages, None
In questo libro pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1956 Günther Anders muove dalla diagnosi della «v… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- technology
29. The Aesthetics of Disappearance
By: Paul Virilio
3.86
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his th… read more
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30. Ästhetischer Kapitalismus
By: Gernot Böhme
3.37
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Aesthetic Economy is a theory of the recent development of capitalism in our national economies. Ba… read more
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31. Kafka: Um sein Leben schreiben
By: Rüdiger Safranski
3.65
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Zum 100. Rüdiger Safranski über Franz Kafka – Jahrhundertfigur der Weltliteratur„Ich habe kein lit… read more
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