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<<< 1 2 3 4 5     sort list by title | author Nature, Man and Woman Alan W. Watts A provocative and enduring work that reexamines humanity's place in the natural world -- and the spirit's relation to the flesh -- in the light of Chinese Taoism. That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is... 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 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... 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... Culture and Value Ludwig Wittgenstein Peter Finch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference. "It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in... Empire of Signs Roland Barthes With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography—in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies—of Japan itself... I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century Michel Foucault To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old... 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. Power/Knowledge Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Michel Foucault Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the... Lyrical and Critical Essays Albert Camus "The literary output of Albert Camus was exceptionally concentrated and well organized, so that each part of it throws light on the other parts.... Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of... Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Bertrand Russell, Paul Edwards Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life... <<< 1 2 3 4 5