The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
By: Georges Bataille
3.94
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataill…
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. Nietzsche and Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson
4.20
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and P… read more
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"Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence."-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we a…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
3. Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)
By: Eugene Thacker , Thacker Eugene
3.86
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, whi… read more
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"By necessity there are other characteristics that are not accounted for, that are not measured, and that remain hidden and occulted. Anything that reveals itself does not reveal itself in total. This…"-Eugene Thacker, Starry Speculative Corpse (Horror of Philosophy, #2)
4. The Spirit of Terrorism and Other essays
By: Jean Baudrillard , Chris Turner , Chris Turner
3.76
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter – not merely th… read more
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5. Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more
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6. The Song of Roland
By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more
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7. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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8. How to Read Lacan
By: Slavoj Žižek , Simon Critchley
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The How to Readseries provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your un… read more
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9. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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10. 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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11. Symbolic Exchange and Death
By: Jean Baudrillard , Ian Grant
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theori… read more
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12. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more
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13. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Allan Bloom , Alexandre Kojève , James H. Nichols
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophica… read more
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14. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
By: Henry Miller
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen d… read more
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15. After the Future
By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi , Gary Genosko , None
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
After the Future explores our century-long obsession with the concept of "the future." Beginning wi… read more
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16. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
17. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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18. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
19. The Inhuman: Reflections on Time
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Geoffrey Bennington , Rachel Bowlby
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of Europe's leading philosophers, well known for his work The Postmode… read more
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20. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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21. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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22. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
By: Paul Schrader
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the scr… read more
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23. The Whisperer in Darkness
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more
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24. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
25. Totem and Taboo
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboowas first pub… read more
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26. Negative Dialectics
By: Theodor W. Adorno , None
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philo… read more
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27. 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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28. 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
29. It Then
By: Danielle Collobert
4.29
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Translated from the French by Norma Cole. The first English translation of this French poet… read more
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30. Exiting the Vampire Castle
By: Mark Fisher
4.05
Format: 10 pages, ebook
This summer, I seriously considered withdrawing from any involvement in politics. Exhausted through… read more
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31. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
By: Georges Bataille
3.94
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataill… read more
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- anthropology
