The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - With Introduction by Donna Haraway by Ursula K. Le Guin; Donna Haraway (Introduction by); Lee Bul (Illustrator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Terra Ignota Ser.
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ...Show more
Fragments Of An Anarchist Anthropology by GRAEBER DAVID
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy--everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanti ...Show more
The Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Granta Editions
Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their legacies.
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
What Is Power? by Byung-Chul Han
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life.Power is co ...Show more
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: General Adult
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have ofte ...Show more
Eroticism by George Bataille
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. ...Show more
Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: near fine
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster by C.G. Jung
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Extracted from Volume 9, Part I. Includes "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," "Concerning Rebirth," "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," and "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure."
Dreams by Carl Gustav Jung; Kathleen Raine (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Extracted from Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16. Includes "The Analysis of Dreams," 'On the Significance of Number Dreams," "General Aspects of Dream Psychology," "On the Nature of Dreams," "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and "The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis."