Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
By: Erving Goffman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moments and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the intr…
Want to Read $ 19.77"Sometimes the individual can retract his decision to pursue a line of activity upon learning of likely failure."-Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
"Sometimes the individual can retract his decision to pursue a line of activity upon learning of likely failure."-Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
"Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest."-Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
"Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest."-Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
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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. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
By: Jean Baudrillard , Chris Turner , George Ritzer
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is the first English-language translation of Jean Baudrillard's contemporary classic on the so… read more
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"انسان تنها از زمانی موضوع علم قرار گرفته است که فروش اتومبیل از ساخت آن دشوارتر شده است."-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
"This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smil…"-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
"You have to try everything, for consumerist man is haunted by the fear of 'missing' something, some form of enjoyment or other. You never know whether a particular encounter, a particular experience …"-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
"از نظر «سالینز»، این جماعت شکارچی-گردآورندهٔ مواد غذایی (قبایل چادرنشین بدوی استرالیا، کالاهاری و غیره) هستند که فراوانی واقعی را علی رغم «فقر» مطلق‌شان تجربه می‌کنند. بدوی‌ها مالک هیچ‌چیز خاصی نیستند…"-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
4. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
By: Pierre Bourdieu , Richard Nice
4.15
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois … read more
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"Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others."-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literatu…"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a …"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
5. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
6. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
By: Guy Debord , Malcolm Imrie
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a seminal text in cultrual theory and an essential pocket handbook for situationists wherev… read more
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7. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more
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- philosophy
8. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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9. Reasons and Persons
By: Derek Parfit
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morali… read more
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10. The Sociological Imagination
By: C. Wright Mills , Amitai Etzioni
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in w… read more
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- sociology
11. What is Cultural History?
By: Peter Burke
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
This exciting introductory text offers an accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultu… read more
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12. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
13. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
14. Four Views on Free Will
By: Robert H. Kane , John Martin Fischer , Derk Pereboom , None
4.33
Format: 25 pages, Paperback
Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this… read more
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- philosophy
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- psychology
15. The Imaginary Institution of Society
By: Cornelius Castoriadis
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
"[T]he most original, ambitious, and reflective attempt to think through the liberating mediation o… read more
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16. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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17. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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18. On Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
3.97
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more
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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
19. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more
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20. Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist
By: George Herbert Mead , Charles William Morris
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's p… read more
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21. To the End of the Land
By: David Grossman , Jessica Cohen
4.01
Format: 581 pages, Hardcover
From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—… read more
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"A soldier who looked as if he were around fifteen, with soft, smooth cheeks, lay next to Ilan with his eyes closed, curled up and mumbling quickly, devotedly. Ilan touched his leg and asked him to sa…"-David Grossman, To the End of the Land
22. 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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23. Interaction Ritual Chains
By: Randall Collins
3.62
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues … read more
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24. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
By: Alfred W. Crosby
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the wo… read more
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25. Metaphysics
By: Peter van Inwagen
4.11
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
In this classic, exciting, and thoughtful text, Metaphysics, Peter van Inwagen examines three profo… read more
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26. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more
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"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
27. La straniera
By: Claudia Durastanti
3.57
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia… read more
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"O que ocorre com o atordoamento de quem não sabe nada de uma cidade e se ilude que cada descoberta feita o seja pela primeira vez? Que espaço tem o desejo quando tudo é feito tão transparente?"-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera
"A autobiografia, e a da minha mãe não é uma exceção, é a bastarda entre os gêneros literários, porque baixa o limiar: está nas mãos dos refugiados, mulheres, deficientes, sobreviventes do Holocausto,…"-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera
"Enquanto eu tentava estabelecer alguma ordem com a escrita, eles continuavam se comunicando com os astros superiores e as substâncias ingovernáveis, reforçando sempre em mim a suspeita de que as pala…"-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera
"Podemos fracassar numa história de amor, na relação com a mãe. Mas quando uma cidade nos repele, quando não conseguimos entrar em seus mecanismos mais profundos e estamos sempre do outro lado do vidr…"-Claudia Durastanti, La straniera
28. Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling, #1)
By: Scarlett St. Clair
3.57
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
"Could you love me?" he whispered. The question stole my breath and burned my lungs in the silence … read more
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"I am waiting, vicious creature."-Scarlett St. Clair, Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling, #1)
"He was beautiful and cold, like winter…"-Scarlett St. Clair, Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling, #1)
"Oh, Gesela, do not pretend you despise my attention."-Scarlett St. Clair, Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling, #1)
"Answer my question. Send to my will. Why have you come, sweet one?"-Scarlett St. Clair, Mountains Made of Glass (Fairy Tale Retelling, #1)
29. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
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30. Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will
By: Timothy O'Connor
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "age… read more
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31. Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
By: Erving Goffman
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moments and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the intr… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- social
- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
- anthropology
"Sometimes the individual can retract his decision to pursue a line of activity upon learning of likely failure."-Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
"Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered h…"-Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior
