The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture)
By: Todd McGowan
4.13
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has …
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1. Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date,… read more
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"Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life."-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
"Nazism is essentially based on the negation of the human nature of the other, while Fascism is based on the aggressive inclusion of the other, and the punishment and extermination of those who refuse…"-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
"L’identità è lo strumento percettivo e concettuale che ci dà una possibilità di conoscenza, ma noi scambiamo questa conoscenza per un ri-conoscimento. Cosicché siamo condotti a credere di sapere già,…"-Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)
2. Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of… read more
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3. 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
4. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements of Eastern Europe, provides a virt… read more
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- film
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5. Erotism: Death and Sensuality
By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more
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6. The Uncanny
By: Sigmund Freud , Adam Phillips , David McLintock , Hugh Haughton
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works t… read more
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7. 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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8. The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Casuality
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
The experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of "irrational" violence in contemporary societies … read more
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9. Franny and Zooey
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more
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10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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12. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
By: Susan Buck-Morss
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
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13. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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14. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
15. El túnel
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages,
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more
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16. 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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17. On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore
By: Jacques Lacan , Jacques-Alain Miller , Bruce Fink
3.73
Format: 192 pages,
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18. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam , None
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Steven Marcus
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sexual Abberations Infantile Sexuality Transformations of P… read more
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24. 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
25. 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?
26. 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
27. The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski between Theory and Post-Theory
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Film theory is in crisis. The dominant psychoanalytical paradigm is contested by cognitive models a… read more
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28. Anxiety - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan | Book X
By: Jacques Lacan
4.41
Format: None pages, None
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the … read more
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29. Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity
By: Adrian Johnston
4.36
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Slavoj Žižek is one of the most interesting and important philosophers working today, known chiefly… read more
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30. The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (Suny Psychoanalysis and Culture)
By: Todd McGowan
4.13
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has … read more
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31. The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange
By: Kōjin Karatani
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of wor… read more
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