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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>     sort list by title | author The Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably leisurely... The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961... The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays Albert Camus "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest– whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether.. Sade A Sudden Abyss Annie Le Brun The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost completely from circulation in the century. Meanwhile the exegesis of Sade poured from the presses... Ways of Seeing Based on the BBC Television Series John Berger John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series... The History of Sexuality An Introduction, Volume 1 Michel Foucault The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual... The History of Sexuality The Use of Pleasure, Volume 2 Michel Foucault In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an... Beyond Good & Evil Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future Friedrich Nietzsche Represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is designed to give the reader a comprehensive idea of Nietzche's thought and style. With an inclusive index of subjects and... Madness and Civilization A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be... Spinoza Practical Philosophy Gilles Deleuze Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics... A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Brian Massumi A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. Reflections Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings Walter Benjamin A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and... Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari The authors combine elements of the work of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche to develop a political analysis of desire as it is repressed or expressed in Western culture. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (1926-84), celebrated French thinker and activist who challenged people's assumptions about care of the mentally ill, gay rights, prisons, the police, and welfare. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 >>>