Cartographies of the Absolute
By: Alberto Toscano
3.60
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
2. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
By: Nick Land
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on… read more
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3. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls 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. On the Natural History of Destruction
By: W.G. Sebald
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
W.G. Sebald completed this controversial book before his death in December 2001. On the Natural His… read more
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6. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
By: Sigmund Freud , A.A. Brill
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" Freud examines the psychological basis for the forgetting… read more
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8. 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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"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"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 expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
9. 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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10. Being and Event
By: Alain Badiou , None
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
A translation of one of the single most important works of recent French philosophy, Badiou's magnu… read more
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11. For a New Critique of Political Economy
By: Bernard Stiegler
3.95
Format: 473 pages, Paperback
The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original cri… read more
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12. 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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13. The Accursed Share 1: Consumption
By: Georges Bataille , Robert Hurley
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utilit… read more
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14. 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
15. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
16. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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17. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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18. Cute Accelerationism
By: Amy Ireland
4.10
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
An impassioned philosophical celebration of the multiple dimensions of contemporary cuteness.Involu… read more
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19. Cartographies of the Absolute
By: Alberto Toscano
3.60
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question o… read more
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20. Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 7) (Volume 7)
By: Paul De Man
4.09
Format: 342 pages, Perfect Paperback
Focuses upon the gap between a critic's view of a particular mark and his own literary method using… read more
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"When modern critics think they are demystifying literature, they are in fact being demystified by it. But since this necessarily occurs in the form of a crisis, they are blind to what takes place wit…"-Paul De Man, Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 7) (Volume 7)
21. In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
By: Gean Moreno
2.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultura… read more
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