Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
By: Joan Copjec
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Copjec conjures a dialogue between Jacques Lacan, champion for psychoanalysis and Michael Foucault,…
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1. 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
2. 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
3. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more
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4. 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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5. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
By: Jonathan Crary
3.47
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual … read more
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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
By: Sara Ahmed
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to pro… read more
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8. Culture and Value
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , Georg Henrik von Wright , Peter Winch
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture & value presents all entries chronol… read more
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9. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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10. 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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11. 10:04
By: Ben Lerner
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more
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12. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
13. 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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"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?
14. Gender Without Identity
By: Avgi Saketopoulou
4.48
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Gender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Ro… read more
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15. 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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16. The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons)
By: Todd McGowan
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
What stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. I… read more
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"The fundamental task of fantasy is to transform an impossible satisfaction that no one could attain into a prohibited satisfaction that becomes unattainable due to the fantasized obstacle that preven…"-Todd McGowan, The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons)
"Not only does the immigrant perform work that citizens will not perform for a wage that they will not accept, according to the racist fantasy, the immigrant does so without acceding to the rules that…"-Todd McGowan, The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of Hatred (Psychoanalytic Horizons)
17. 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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18. The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living
By: Mari Ruti
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Should we feel inadequate for failing to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is such an existe… read more
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19. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
By: Jacques Lacan
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psycho… read more
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"L'unica cosa di cui si possa essere colpevoli è di aver ceduto sul proprio desiderio"-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
"From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire (Seminar 7, 319)"-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
"My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing."-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
"The 'fool' is an innocent, a simpleton, but truths issue from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue of the fact that this 'fool' is sometimes clothed in the insignia of the j…"-Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
20. Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
By: Joan Copjec
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Copjec conjures a dialogue between Jacques Lacan, champion for psychoanalysis and Michael Foucault,… read more
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21. Psychoanalysis Under Occupation (Psychoanalytic Political Theory)
By: Lara Sheehi
4.34
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engaging the theories of decoloniality and libera… read more
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