Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (Diaeresis)
By: Todd McGowan
4.33
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself."-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt
3.93
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
4. La carte et le territoire
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.95
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more
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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
5. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. The Odd One In: On Comedy
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and … read more
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- philosophy
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
8. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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9. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more
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10. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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- philosophy
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
11. Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have reject… read more
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12. Sometimes Gladness
By: Bruce Dawe
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Unknown Binding
Bruce Dawe is Australia's best-selling and most popular living poet. This fifth edition of Sometime… read more
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13. Three Exemplary Novels
By: Miguel de Unamuno , Ángel Flores
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
'No Spanish voice was heard during the fifty years of his active intellectual life which could comp… read more
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14. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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15. Platform
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.80
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more
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"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
16. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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17. 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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18. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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19. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
20. Hope without Optimism
By: Terry Eagleton
4.38
Format: 83 pages,
In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers th… read more
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21. In Praise of Love
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Bush , Nicolas Truong
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Caught between consumerism and casua… read more
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22. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
23. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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. 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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- philosophy
"[...] 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
26. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
27. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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- philosophy
"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
28. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
29. Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
By: Joan Copjec
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Copjec conjures a dialogue between Jacques Lacan, champion for psychoanalysis and Michael Foucault,… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
30. Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (Diaeresis)
By: Todd McGowan
4.33
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth o… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
31. The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence (The Palgrave Lacan Series)
By: Isabel Millar
4.15
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as spea… read more
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- philosophy
