5 must-read philosophy books like Lacan at the Scene by Henry Bond

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Lacan at the Scene

By: Henry Bond

3.81

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had worked as a police d…

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Cover of La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq

1. 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

Cover of Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan by Alenka Zupančič

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

Similar categories in Alenka Zupančič's Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan book and Henry Bond's Lacan at the Scene

  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

3. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.33

Format: None pages,

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with L… read more

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4. 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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5. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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  • philosophy
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

6. Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan

By: None

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work -- and the d… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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?

Cover of Sex and the Failed Absolute by Slavoj Žižek

9. Sex and the Failed Absolute

By: Slavoj Žižek

4.12

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothin… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Trump's twisted 'greatness' is that he effectively acts - he is not afraid to break the unwritten (and written) rules to impose his decisions. As we learned (not only) from Hegel, our life is regulat…"

-Slavoj Žižek, Sex and the Failed Absolute

"Especially important are the political implications of the idea that the new possibilities opened by a certain act are part of its content - this is the reason why, to the consternation of many of my…"

-Slavoj Žižek, Sex and the Failed Absolute

Cover of Lacan at the Scene by Henry Bond

10. Lacan at the Scene

By: Henry Bond

3.81

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had worked as a police d… read more

Similar categories in Henry Bond's Lacan at the Scene book and Henry Bond's Lacan at the Scene

  • psychoanalysis
  • theory
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

13 Top philosophy books like Sex and the Failed Absolute by Slavoj Žižek

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan

Alenka Zupančič

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lévi-Strauss , John Weightman , Doreen Weightman

3.33

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