The Truth of Democracy (Just Ideas)
By: Jean-Luc Nancy
3.63
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
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1. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. 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
4. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
5. The Tears of Eros
By: Georges Bataille , Peter Connor
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tears of Erosis the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between viole… read more
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6. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Robert Hurley
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, … read more
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- politics
7. The Selected Poems
By: David Hinton , Li Bai , Li Po
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Presents a translation of Li Po's poetry (AD 701-762). This book features Li Po's work which is suf… read more
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8. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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9. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more
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10. Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more
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11. The Garden of Forking Paths
By: George Guidall , Jorge Luis Borges
3.31
Format: None pages, Audiobook
"The Garden of Forking Paths" (original Spanish title: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan") is … read more
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12. Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho
By: Samuel Beckett
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting … read more
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13. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
14. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
15. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
16. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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17. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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18. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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19. The Water Statues
By: Fleur Jaeggy
3.49
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar b… read more
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"Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachend…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe sch…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Ich habe viel Zeit in den Kellergewölben verbracht, nicht aus Überdruß an der Sonne oder plein air, ich verlor nur die Kontrolle über die Stunden und über das Leben, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf;…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
20. The Truth of Democracy (Just Ideas)
By: Jean-Luc Nancy
3.63
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The initial provocation for The Truth of Democracy was the fortieth anniversary of May '68 and the … read more
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