6 best-selling philosophy books like The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Kaja Silverman

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The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

By: Kaja Silverman

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

" . . . a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual di…

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Kaja Silverman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Men Explain Things to Me

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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2. 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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  • art
  • theory
  • academic
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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)

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3. 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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  • theory
  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

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4. 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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  • feminism
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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5. The Flamethrowers

By: Rachel Kushner

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more

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  • art
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6. A Voice and Nothing More

By: Mladen Dolar

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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8. 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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  • theory
  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

9. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By: Ken Kesey

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, … read more

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11. The Medium is the Massage

By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more

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12. 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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  • art
  • psychology
"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)

13. The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity

By: Catherine Malabou

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily … read more

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14. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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15. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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16. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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17. The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

By: Kaja Silverman

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

" . . . a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual di… read more

Similar categories in Kaja Silverman's The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference) book and Kaja Silverman's The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

  • art
  • psychoanalysis
  • film
  • theory
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
Cover of Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies (Theory Q) by Damon R. Young

18. Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies (Theory Q)

By: Damon R. Young

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and… read more

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7 Best nonfiction books like The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Kaja Silverman

Transform Your Habits

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

A Voice and Nothing More

Mladen Dolar

3.64

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7 Top womens books like Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Transform Your Habits

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Transform Your Habits

We Should All Be Feminists

None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.40

Transform Your Habits

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

4.21

Transform Your Habits

King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

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