Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels (Short Circuits)
By: Slavoj Žižek
4.02
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques…
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1. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
4.22
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more
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- nonfiction
"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
2. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
3. 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
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
4. The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within
By: Mari Ruti
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
The Singularity of Beingpresents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irrep… read more
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- philosophy
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5. 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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6. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
7. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
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. Escape from Freedom
By: Erich Fromm
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably… read more
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- nonfiction
10. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
11. Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
By: Todd McGowan
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many p… read more
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12. Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay
3.96
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more
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- nonfiction
"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
13. Science of Logic
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Most of the major schools of contemporary philosophy, from Marxism to Existentialism, are reactions… read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. Foundation (Foundation, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.17
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more
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"Past glories are poor feeding."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
17. 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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18. The Right to Be Lazy
By: Paul Lafargue , None
4.28
Format: None pages,
Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, e… read more
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19. 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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"[...] 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
20. 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
- 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?
21. La civilisation du poisson rouge : Petit traité sur le marché de l'attention
By: Bruno Patino
3.54
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
Nueve segundos. A eso ha quedado reducida nuestra capacidad de atención en el mundo contemporá somo… read more
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22. After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis
By: Bruno Latour
3.52
Format: 180 pages, ebook
El testamento literario de Bruno Latour (1947-2022), referente mundial del pensamiento ecologista c… read more
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23. Had I Known
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains … read more
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24. Enjoyment Right & Left
By: Todd McGowan
4.28
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to gras… read more
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25. Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
By: Todd McGowan
4.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentie… read more
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26. The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)
By: Alenka Zupančič
4.29
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context—examining the definitive element that animates his wor… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
"It is not about recentering the subject (via the effect of recognition), but about decentering her radically, producing a subjective split in its purest form. The temporal dimension comes into play a…"-Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)
"The thing (as one) no longer throws its shadow upon another thing; instead, it throws its shadow upon itself, thus becoming, at the same time, the thing and its shadow. When the sun is at its zenith,…"-Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)
"The other concept of truth in Lacan situates the truth, so to speak, in the midst of reality. Here, the discontinuities, ruptures, standstills, and crises of reality are places or points of its truth…"-Alenka Zupančič, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Short Circuits)
27. Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life
By: Mari Ruti
4.17
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.… read more
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28. Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity
By: Adrian Johnston
4.36
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Slavoj Žižek is one of the most interesting and important philosophers working today, known chiefly… read more
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29. Gaze and Voice as Love Objects
By: Renata Salecl
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are gaze and voice … read more
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"Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything."-Renata Salecl, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects
30. Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels (Short Circuits)
By: Slavoj Žižek
4.02
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques… read more
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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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