The Life of Forms in Art
By: Henri Focillon
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881–1943) des…
Want to Read"Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of ‘rules,’ but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …"-Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art
"Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of ‘rules,’ but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …"-Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art
"Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of ‘rules,’ but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …"-Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art
"Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of ‘rules,’ but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …"-Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art
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1. The Concept of the Political
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. The Double
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
3.96
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a … read more
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"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
"Reading is probably another way of being in a place."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
"What dogs want most in life is for no one to go away."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
"Cada día que nace es el primero para unos y será el último para otros."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
4. Demian
By: Hermann Hesse
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more
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- philosophy
- 20th century
"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."-Hermann Hesse, Demian
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"-Hermann Hesse, Demian
5. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
6. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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- philosophy
- france
7. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
8. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
9. Liquid Modernity
By: Zygmunt Bauman
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focus… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
10. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
11. Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires … read more
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12. The Analects
By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
3.20
Format: 168 pages,
This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
13. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- philosophy
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
14. The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
By: None , Kenneth M. Clark
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashion… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
15. The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.06
Format: None pages, paper
Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the… read more
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16. Grande Sertão: Veredas
By: João Guimarães Rosa
4.57
Format: 201 pages, Brochura
Na obra de Guimaraes Rosa, ao contrario da maioria de nossos escritores regionalistas, o sertao e v… read more
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17. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- art
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
18. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam , None
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
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22. The Technological Society
By: Robert K. Merton , Jacques Ellul
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendere… read more
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23. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… 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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- philosophy
- 20th century
"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. The Portal of the Mystery of Hope
By: Charles Péguy
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Translated by David L. Schindler, JrIn what is one of the greatest Catholic poetic works of our cen… read more
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26. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
27. Ways of Worldmaking
By: Nelson Goodman
3.77
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Required reading at more than 100 colleges and universities throughout North America. read more
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- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We aim at simplicity and hope for truth."-Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking
28. Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time
By: François Hartog
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Les expériences du temps sont multiples. Chaque société entretient un rapport particulier avec le p… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. The Life of Forms in Art
By: Henri Focillon
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881–1943) des… read more
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- architecture
- art
- art history
- history
- theory
- philosophy
- college
- nonfiction
- france
- 20th century
"Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of ‘rules,’ but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate …"-Henri Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art
30. Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Leo Strauss
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a d… read more
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31. A Definição da Arte
By: Umberto Eco
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
El libro está dividido en tres partes:Estudios históricos y teóricos; El concepto de forma en las p… read more
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- art
