Aesthetics and Politics
By: Fredric Jameson , Bertolt Brecht , György Lukács , Theodor W. Adorno , Walter Benjamin , Ernst Bloch
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare …
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. 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
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
"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)
3. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
4. On Being Blue
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a philosophical approach to color, Gass explores man's perception of the color blue as well as i… read more
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- art
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5. 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
- theory
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6. Erotism: Death and Sensuality
By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more
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- theory
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7. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
By: Antonio Gramsci , None , Quintin Hoare , Geoffrey Nowell Smith
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An extensive anthology, including his most important writings while in prison on philosophy, histor… read more
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- theory
- politics
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- sociology
8. Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more
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9. Aesthetics and Politics
By: Fredric Jameson , Bertolt Brecht , György Lukács , Theodor W. Adorno , Walter Benjamin , Ernst Bloch
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare … read more
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- art
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- sociology
10. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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11. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. Capital, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
By: Karl Marx , Ben Fowkes , Ernest Mandel
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close stud… read more
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13. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
By: Hannah Arendt , Walter Benjamin , Harry Zohn
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds … read more
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14. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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- philosophy
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
15. 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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16. 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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17. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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18. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
By: György Lukács , Rodney Livingstone
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published i… read more
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19. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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20. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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21. In Praise of Love
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Bush , Nicolas Truong
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Caught between consumerism and casua… read more
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