Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life
By: Mari Ruti
4.17
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.…
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. The Age of Reason
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
4.17
Format: None pages,
The first fully Existentialist fiction by the creator of a philosophical movement that captured the… read more
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3. The Sublime Object of Ideology
By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more
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4. 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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5. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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6. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
7. An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
By: Dylan Evans
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jacques Lacan's thinking revolutionised the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and had a major i… read more
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8. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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9. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway
By: Slavoj Žižek , None
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The Art of the Ridiculous Sublimeis first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's The Lost Hig… read more
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10. 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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"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)
11. Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay
3.96
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more
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"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
12. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
13. 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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14. Enjoy Your Symptom!
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.84
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Slavoj Zizek, dubbed by the Village Voice the giant of Ljubljana, is back with a new edition of his… read more
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15. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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16. 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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17. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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18. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
By: Bruce Fink
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Aga… read more
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19. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
20. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
21. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
22. The Pole
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.69
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more
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23. 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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24. Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to… read more
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"A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"NK, or natural killer, cells, which, like macrophages, attack targets like microbes, do not always kill. A 2013 article reports that about half of the NK cells sit out the fight, leaving a minority o…"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Poor whites had always had the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were; racial subjugation was the ground under their feet, the rock they stood upon, even when …"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
25. 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
26. 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?
27. Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
By: Kieran Setiya
3.56
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you … read more
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"The way in which you relate to the activities that matter most to you is by trying to complete them and so expel them from your life. Your days are devoted to ending, one by one, the activities that …"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"In philosophers' terms, the shift in perspective is not temporal, but "epistemic": it has to do with knowledge. Emotionally, there is a fundamental difference between knowing that I will miss out on …"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"When the demands of life are pressing, too urgent to be ignored, it would be a mistake to devote all day to contemplation, reading Wordsworth, or playing golf. Being mortal, think of mortal things. Y…"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"We can escape the self-destructive cycle of pursuit, resolution, and renewal, of attainments archived or unachieved. The way out is to find sufficient value in atelic activities, activities that have…"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
28. The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War Series)
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.98
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Slavoj Žižek is, without doubt, one of the most stimulating and vibrant thinkers of our time, and h… read more
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"Not all is ideology, beneath the ideological mask, I am also a human person' is the very form of ideology, of its 'practical efficiency'."-Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War Series)
"...when do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when I am able to describe her, not even when I learn her values, dreams, and so on, but o…"-Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War Series)
"In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typi…"-Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War Series)
29. Hegel in a Wired Brain
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.92
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek gives us a readi… read more
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"In order to grasp how exploitation is overcome by sublimation, it is not enough to stay with this standard definition of sublimation as the elevation of an ordinary object to the dignity of a Thing. …"-Slavoj Žižek, Hegel in a Wired Brain
"Raphael Samuel, a citizen of India, said he would sue his parents for giving birth to him … Samuel is telling people, especially Indian kids, that they don’t owe their parents anything; he also claim…"-Slavoj Žižek, Hegel in a Wired Brain
30. Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life
By: Mari Ruti
4.17
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.… read more
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31. Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels (Short Circuits)
By: Slavoj Žižek
4.02
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques… read more
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