Modern French Philosophy
By: Vincent Descombes
3.90
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy (1933-1979) that expresses the main mov…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
3. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
4. Empire of Signs
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature,… read more
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"The text does not gloss the images, which do not illustrate the text."-Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs
"In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject."-Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs
5. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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6. Zeno's Conscience
By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more
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7. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
9. 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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10. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman
4.15
Format: 32 pages,
Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more
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11. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
By: Michel Foucault
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more
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12. Malone Dies
By: Samuel Beckett
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett's English translation in 1956, Malon… read more
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13. On the Abolition of All Political Parties
By: Czesław Miłosz , Simone Weil , Simon Leys
4.05
Format: 73 pages, Paperback
A brilliant woman who was a study in fiercely maintained contradictions, a star student who went to… read more
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"When water is set in motion by a violent, impetuous current, it ceases to reflect images. Its surface is no longer level; it can no more measure densities. Whether it is moved by a single current or …"-Czesław Miłosz, On the Abolition of All Political Parties
14. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more
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15. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
4.09
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more
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"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
16. The Savage Mind
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
An examination of the structure of the thought of primitive' peoples, and has contributed significa… read more
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17. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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18. Rabelais and His World
By: François Rabelais , Hélène Iswolsky , Mikhail Bakhtin , Michael Holquist , Krystyna Pomorska
5.00
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895--1975) exa… read more
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19. 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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20. 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
21. An Introduction to Political Philosophy
By: Jonathan Wolff
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
What would life be like without the state? What justifies the state? Who should rule? How much libe… read more
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22. The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity
By: Catherine Malabou
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily … read more
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23. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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24. Sade My Neighbor
By: Alphonso Lingis , Pierre Klossowski
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Enlightenment ideals of a society rooted in liberationist reason and morality were trampled in the … read more
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25. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
26. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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27. Un apartamento en Urano
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more
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"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
28. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
29. Was ist Metaphysik?
By: Martin Heidegger
3.91
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
"Was ist Metaphysik?" ist der Titel der öffentlichen Antrittsvorlesung Martin Heidegger an der Univ… read more
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30. Después de lo trans: Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario
By: Elizabeth Duval
3.73
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Hasta el coño de lo trans. Así está Elizabeth Duval. Cansada de ser la jovencísima activista antes … read more
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31. Modern French Philosophy
By: Vincent Descombes
3.90
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy (1933-1979) that expresses the main mov… read more
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