This is Not a Pipe
By: Michel Foucault , René Magritte , James Harkness
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene M…
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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- art
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- france
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.76
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Rene Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and it is certainly true that… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
- france
"The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake."-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
"c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)"-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
"Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds rev…"-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
"Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were …"-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
3. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
4. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
By: Gilles Deleuze , Daniel W. Smith , Tom Conley
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the paint… read more
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- art
- art history
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- france
"The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering."-Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
5. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
6. Human, All Too Human
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more
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- philosophy
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7. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- art history
- theory
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8. This is Not a Pipe
By: Michel Foucault , René Magritte , James Harkness
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene M… read more
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- art
- art history
- classics
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- france
9. Wittgenstein’s Nephew
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.03
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more
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- philosophy
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"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
10. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
11. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more
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12. Postscript on the Societies of Control
By: Gilles Deleuze
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
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13. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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14. What Is Philosophy?
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Called by many France's leading intellectual, Gilles Deleuze is one of the most important philosoph… read more
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15. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. On Certainty
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , Georg Henrik von Wright , G.E.M. Anscombe , None
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Written over the last 18 months of his life & inspired by his interest in G.E. Moore's defense of c… read more
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18. Dear Theo
By: Vincent van Gogh , Irving Stone , Jean Stone
5.00
Format: 87 pages,
Each night, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his broth… read more
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19. Investigations of a Dog
By: Franz Kafka
4.62
Format: None pages,
"Investigations of a Dog" (German: "Forschungen eines Hundes") is a short story by Franz Kafka writ… read more
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20. The Conquest of Bread
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more
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21. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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22. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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23. Göğü Delen Adam
By: Erich Scheurmann , None , None
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Papalagi denince beyazlar ya da yabancilar anlasilir. Ama sozcugu sozcugune cevrilirse gogu delen a… read more
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24. Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu
By: Antonin Artaud
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
'Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu' est sans doute le livre d'Antonin Artaud qui libere le plu… read more
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25. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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- art
- classics
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
26. Literary Theory: An Introduction
By: Terry Eagleton
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Written in 1982, this work appeared, as Professor Eagleton explains, at the watershed of two very d… read more
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27. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more
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"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
28. Küçük Yuvarlak Taşlar
By: Melisa Kesmez
4.34
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
“Toprak ayağımızın altında yumuşacık, kırmızı. Bacaklarımızı ısıran dikenlere aldırmıyoruz. Çalılar… read more
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29. Nohut Oda
By: Melisa Kesmez
4.28
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
Mekânın hunharca talan edildiği, bir yere ait olmanın zorlaştığı, hususi ya da kolektif belleğimizi… read more
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"Pencerenin çerçevelediği balkonun sarı ışığında oturmuş, eşyanın tabiatı marifetiyle aynı fotoğraf karesine girmekle yükümlü ama gerçekte birbirlerinden kilometrelerce uzak annemle babama baktım. Ben…"-Melisa Kesmez, Nohut Oda
30. The Novelist
By: Jordan Castro
3.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more
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31. A minha mãe é a minha filha
By: Valter Hugo Mãe
4.14
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Um conto de uma ternura ímpar dedicado a todos aqueles que cuidam. «A minha mãe é a minha filha. P… read more
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